JUST IN: Alan Arkin, Oscar-winning ‘Little Miss Sunshine' actor and Second City alum, dies at 89
He attracted strong reviews and the notice of Jewison, who was preparing to direct a 1966 comedy about a Russian sub that creates a panic when it ventures too close to a small New England town. In Arkin's next major film, he proved he could also play a villain, however reluctantly. Arkin starred in"Wait Until Dark" as a vicious drug dealer who holds a blind woman captive in her own apartment, believing a drug shipment is hidden there."Just awful," he said.
“I used to think that my stuff had a lot of variety. But I realized that for the first twenty years or so, most of the characters I played were outsiders, strangers to their environment, foreigners in one way or another,” he told The Associated Press in 2007. Arkin also directed the film version of Jules Feiffer's 1971 dark comedy"Little Murders" and Neil Simon's 1972 play about bickering old vaudeville partners,"The Sunshine Boys." On television, Arkin appeared in the short-lived series"Fay" and"Harry" and played a night court judge in Sidney Lumet's drama series"100 Centre Street" on A&E. He also wrote several books for children.
He studied acting at Los Angeles City College; California State University, Los Angeles; and Bennington College in Vermont, where he earned a scholarship to the formerly all-girls school.After he and Yaffe divorced in 1961, Arkin married actress-writer Barbara Dana, and they had a son, Anthony. All three sons became actors: Adam starred in the TV series"Chicago Hope."
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