Adam Arkin
Acting
Biography
Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1956) is an American actor and director. His father was the Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin and his brother is the actor Matthew Arkin. Adam Arkin is known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony (Best Actor, 1991, I Hate Hamlet) as well as three primetime Emmys, four SAG Awards (Ensemble, Chicago Hope), and a DGA Award (My Louisiana Sky). Beginning in 1990, he had a recurring guest role on Northern Exposure playing the angry, paranoid Adam, for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2002, Arkin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for My Louisiana Sky. Between 2007 and 2009, he co-starred in the drama series Life. In 2009, he portrayed villain Ethan Zobelle, a white separatist gang leader, in Sons of Anarchy, and Principal Ed Gibb in 8 Simple Rules (2003–2005).
Born: August 19, 1956
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Baby Bob
Baby Bob is an American sitcom that aired on CBS as a midseason replacement in March 2002. The Baby Bob character had previously been on television since February 2000, appearing in commercials for FreeInternet.com. While actual infants played Bob, the effect to make him look like he was talking was achieved through computer editing.
A Year in the Life
A year, from Christmas to Christmas, in the lives of the Gardners.
The West
The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and the executive producer was Ken Burns. The film originally aired on PBS in September 1996.
Sons of Anarchy
The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, often referred to by the acronym SAMCRO, Sam Crow, or simply Redwood Charter. The charter operates both legal and illegal businesses in the small town of Charming, California. They combine gun-running and a garage, and involvement in porn film industry. Clay, the charter president, likes it old school and violent; while Jax, his stepson and the club's VP, has thoughts about changing the way things are done. Their conflict has effects on both the club and their personal relationship, especially when Jax goes on a personal quest to cleanse the SAMCRO name and image.
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.
Fargo
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
Fargo
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
The West Wing
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
The War
The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
The Newsroom
A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer, the newsroom staff and their boss, the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements.
Filmography
as James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
as Dr. Robinson
as (voice)
as Mark Getzler
as (voice)
as Darius
as Sam
as Mark Duncan
as Detective
as Grant
as Wallace Mahoney
as Nir Zir
as Broomhall
as Hamish Boker
as Hamish Broker
as Shep Tally
as Federal Investigator
as Mr. Baynor
as Adam Roth
as Josh
as Reader (voice)
as Michael Peck
as Husband
as Theo Tonin
as Divorce Lawyer
as Reece
as Ethan Zobelle
as Ted Earley
as Reader (voice)
as Dean Deeley
as John Smith
as Gabe Difranco
as Ed Mumsford
as Carl Brantley
as Scott Esposito / Steven Hirschbaum
as Max
as A.D.A. Douglas Kupfer
as Other Voices (voice)
as Other Voices (voice)
as Ed Gibb
as Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck
as Don Partridge (uncredited)
as Walter Spencer
as Henry
as Richard Frangello
as Vissarion Belinsky (voice)
as Joe Marks
as Scott Kayle
as Stanley Keyworth
as Dr. Julius Adler
as Detective Fred Stapelli
as Kevin
as Bob Miller
as Steve Hersh
as Will Brennan
as Merriwether Lewis (voice)
as Paul Danko
as Brian Schnitzer
as Atty. Albert Ginsberg
as Self
as Self
as Self - Host
as Agent Gabriel Valentino
as Various (voice)
as (voice)
as Aaron Shutt
as Bookstore Manager
as Dick Gordon
as Tom
as Edward
as Attorney Robert Biel
as Eli
as Louis Colt
as David
as George Costas
as Art Berman
as Adam
as Jeff
as Candido Amado
as Harry Newcomb
as Mr. Dunfee
as Jim Eisenberg
as Jim Eisenberg
as Richard Kendall
as Phil Douglas
as Tony Parisio
as (segment "A Matter of Minutes")
as Joseph
as Doug Zageck
as Michael Dreyfuss
as Charlie
as Tony
as Henry Hudson
as Mark Baylor
as Pvt. Billy Zylowski
as Alex Lambert
as Rupe
as Jerry
as Howard Smith
as Ken Walters
as Teenage Gig
as Boy in Monitors Commercial
as Alex Scofield