{"id":1962141,"date":"2023-07-01T07:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/versatile-oscar-winning-american-actor-alan-arkin-dies-at-89\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T07:51:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T11:51:02","slug":"versatile-oscar-winning-american-actor-alan-arkin-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/versatile-oscar-winning-american-actor-alan-arkin-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Versatile Oscar-winning American actor Alan Arkin dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fversatile-oscar-winning-american-actor-alan-arkin-dies-at-89%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1962141&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By Will Dunham<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) -Alan Arkin, a versatile and prolific American actor who thrived in both comic and dramatic roles and won an Oscar for playing a heroin-using grandfather in the 2006 film \u201cLittle Miss Sunshine,\u201d has died at 89, his family said. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur 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,\u201d Arkin\u2019s sons Adam, Matthew and Anthony wrote in a joint statement. <\/p>\n<p>Arkin died at his home in Carlsbad, California, on Thursday, Variety reported.<\/p>\n<p>Arkin appeared in scores of films, was nominated for an Academy Award four times and won a Tony Award, Broadway\u2019s top honors, in 1963 for his first major stage role in Carl Reiner\u2019s \u201cEnter Laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His first major movie role also earned him an Oscar nomination \u2013 best actor for playing a Soviet sailor in the 1966 Cold War comedy \u201cThe Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arkin was initially turned down for the \u201cLittle Miss Sunshine\u201d role that ultimately won him a best-supporting-actor Oscar because the directors thought he was too healthy. The character was a foul-mouthed 80-year-old grandfather who was frail and shaky from years of drug abuse and bad behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the best rejection I ever got in my life \u2013 they thought I was too virile,\u201d Arkin said, flexing his biceps and striking a muscleman pose during a 2007 interview with The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Arkin delivered a memorable dramatic turn as a psychopathic killer in the 1967 film \u201cWait Until Dark,\u201d opposite Audrey Hepburn. He later said he hated the scenes in which his character terrorizes Hepburn, saying, \u201cI didn\u2019t like being cruel to her. It made me very uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He appeared as a deaf-mute in the adaptation of Carson McCullers\u2019 novel \u201cThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\u201d in 1968, drawing his second Academy Award nomination for best actor.<\/p>\n<p>In 1970, he starred in the film version of Joseph Heller\u2019s novel \u201cCatch-22,\u201d putting in a strong performance in a movie that was considered a disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>He also won plaudits for his performance in the 2012 thriller \u201cArgo,\u201d which told the true-life story of a CIA mission to free six Americans from Iran by disguising them as crew members of an elaborately concocted but fictitious film about aliens. Director Ben Affleck\u2019s film won the Academy Award for best picture.<\/p>\n<p>Arkin remained active in film and television well into his 80s. He won praise and Emmy nominations for the TV series \u201cThe Kominsky Method,\u201d also starring Michael Douglas, that debuted in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid ANYONE have the range Alan Arkin had? Hilarious, sinister, insane, tragic. No mood he couldn\u2019t live in,\u201d tweeted actor and comedian Patton Oswalt.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Arkin\u2019s other films included \u201cThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution\u201d in 1976, \u201cThe In-Laws\u201d in 1979, \u201cEdward Scissorhands\u201d in 1990, \u201cGlengarry Glen Ross\u201d in 1992, \u201cGrosse Pointe Blank\u201d in 1997, \u201cThe Slums of Beverly Hills\u201d in 1998, \u201cGet Smart\u201d in 2008, \u201cSunshine Cleaning\u201d in 2008, \u201cStand Up Guys\u201d in 2012 and \u201cGoing in Style\u201d in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Not all his movies fared well. For example, he said he did \u201cFreebie and the Bean\u201d in 1974 because \u201cI needed the bread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alan Wolf Arkin was born on March 26, 1934, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, but his family moved to Los Angeles when he was 11. His father, a painter and writer, lost his job as a teacher after he was accused of being a communist during the \u201cRed Scare\u201d of the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Arkin was an original member of Chicago\u2019s influential improvisational comedy troupe Second City and sang in a folk group that had a hit version of the 1950s single \u201cThe Banana Boat Song,\u201d popularized by Harry Belafonte. Arkin also worked as a movie and stage director, made many TV appearances and wrote several books.<\/p>\n<p>Arkin is survived by his wife Suzanne, his three sons, four grandchildren and a great-grandson.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting and writing by Will Dunham; Additional reporting by Danielle Broadway; Editing by Bill Trott, Diane Craft, Nick Zieminski and Rosalba O\u2019Brien)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/entertainment\/versatile-oscar-winning-american-actor\/attachment\/file-photo-actor-alan-arkin-poses-during-the-cinemacon-big\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/entertainment\/versatile-oscar-winning-american-actor\/attachment\/file-photo-76th-golden-globe-awards-photo-room\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/entertainment\/versatile-oscar-winning-american-actor\/attachment\/file-photo-actor-alan-arkin-and-wife-actress-suzanne-newlander\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>One America\u2019s Bridget Bosco speaks with a Front Royal, VA mom and community organizer, Colleen DeLaFleur, about parents\u2019 efforts to get pornographic and objectionable books out of the public library.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>One America\u2019s Bridget Bosco speaks with actor Jim Caviezel, who plays Tim Ballard in \u201cSound of Freedom.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>President Trump is heading to Pickens, South Carolina on Saturday to celebrate Independence Day.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Vivek Ramaswamy asserted that if he wins the presidential election he will take the America First Agenda even further than Trump did. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By John McCrank and Carolina Mandl (Reuters) -Exchange operator Cboe on Friday refiled an application with the U.S. securities regulator to launch\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters) -Google has hired Brazilian former President Michel Temer to lobby lawmakers considering a proposal to regulate the internet, his adviser said\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By Noel Randewich and Tiyashi Datta (Reuters) -Apple Inc\u2019s stock market value ended a trading session above $3 trillion for the first\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters) -Goldman Sachs is considering exiting its partnership with Apple, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Alan Arkin, a versatile and prolific American actor who thrived in both comic and dramatic roles and won an Oscar for playing a heroin-using grandfather in the 2006 film \u201cLittle Miss Sunshine,\u201d has died at 89, his family said. 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