Alan Wolf Arkin

The actor, whose career on screen and stage spanned eight decades, died at his California home on June 29. Arkin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for one of his best known roles in the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine. His first of more than 100 acting credits, according to his IMDB page, was an uncredited appearance in the 1957 film, Calypso Heat Wave. He’s since starred in a number of acclaimed and beloved projects, garnering additional Oscar nominations for The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) and Argo (2012). Among his final, most notable roles was the Netflix series The Kominsky Method, for which he received two consecutive Emmy nominations. Arkin was a prolific stage actor and director earlier in his career, and won a Tony Award in 1963 for starring in Enter Laughing and earned another nomination 10 years later, this time for directing The Sunshine Boys. Arkin was known for both his comedic strengths and his dramatic skill, and in 2018, he released what he considers a “mini-memoir,” Out of My Mind, which he said explores “an adventurous other side of me. I’m very proud of it.” The next year, Arkin was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In a joint statement, Arkin’s sons, Adam, Matthew and Anthony mourned the loss of their father and celebrated his legacy as an actor: “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.”