Obituary
One of my favourite actors has died aged 89 – Alan Arkin.He perked up just about every movie he was in.
He was a brilliant Yossarian in Catch-22. Also a cop in Freebie and the Bean, and a villain terrorising Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark, and most recently the agent in The Kominsky Method.
One of the good guys it seems….
Glengarry Glen Ross is one of my favourites.
It’s incredible
Possibly the most high-powered male cast of any movie ever.
Yes. Arkin was great but I am a big Jack Lemmon fan and his performance was staggering, amongst a number of brilliant efforts
Me too.
Not only Alan A and Peter F but the criminally underrated
Richard Libertini
Very, very funny movie indeed
May I nominate Little Miss Sunshine? Fantastic performance. I bought the DVD when it first came out for my young daughters. Didn’t realise there was such an adult theme to it but we all loved it and there’s a LMS poster on our stairs. Like Glengarry, a film with multiple fine performances and Alan Arkin the finest. RIP.
I particularly loved his cameo role in So I Married an Axe Murderer as the police chief who is too nice. It always makes me laugh. RIP
Yes! A brilliant small part. “Somebody needs a hug!”
He was great in Argo, as a jaded film exec who is dragged into a CIA plot and becomes increasingly enthusiastic about making it work.
I enjoyed the above-mentioned Glengarry Glen Ross, in which he held his own amomg some real acting heavyweights, but the relentless cynicism/bitterness of it does make tough to watch more than once.
And I can still remember him doing a great turn as a sailor in the largely forgotten The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.
A fine actor with a great set of films to leave behind. RIP.
Really only took notice of him when The Kominsky Method came along, which is just brilliant. Not only that, the execrable Michael Douglas is really good in it too
Michael Douglas is execrable? I didn’t know that. Pretty good actor I thought
Playing the psychiatrist in Grosse Pointe Blank. Very very funny in a tiny role
First saw him in “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter” and sought out his work thereafter. His role as the foul mouthed grandpa in “Little Miss Sunshine” was outstanding.