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 Northe...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Transplant
2024
as Dr. Robinson
A motivated surgical resident pushes himself to extreme lengths while training under a legendary heart transplant surgeon who's obsessed with protecti...

Pig
2021
as Darius
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit Portland to find the mysterious person who stole his beloved foraging pig.

Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
2016
as Self
Go behind the scenes of the second season of Fargo.

Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
2016
Director
Go behind the scenes of the second season of Fargo.

10 Cent Pistol
2014
as Nir Zir
A story about two lifelong criminals who maneuver through the shady underbelly of Los Angeles in search of wealth, love and redemption.

In Security
2014
as Broomhall
The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.

Outlaw Country
2012
Director
A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. ...

The Sessions
2012
as Josh
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment ...

Just Peck
2011
as Michael Peck
At 104 pounds dripping wet, baby-faced sophomore Michael Peck (age 15) is not exactly the coolest guy at American High. Peck’s teachers make him feel ...

Summer Eleven
2010
The poignant, coming of age story about a group of eleven year old girls in their final summer before middle school.

Tell-Tale
2010
as Husband
Celebrity photographer Greg Williams together with an impressive cast lead by Carla Gugino, take on the concept of the Femme Fatale in this stylish er...

A Serious Man
2009
as Divorce Lawyer
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him....

Graduation
2007
as Dean Deeley
Four best friends, about to graduate from high school, must find a way to raise money to help a family member in need. When one of them discovers her ...

Murder on Pleasant Drive
2006
as John Smith
After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with endur...

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
as Gabe Difranco
Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on...

Kids in America
2005
as Ed Mumsford
Inspired by real events, this ribald comedy pits an unlikely gang of students against their principal after she bars safe-sex activities on campus. Pr...

Hitch
2005
as Max
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes pro...

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
as Other Voices (voice)
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car h...

Pristine Books
2003
Director
A young British man is torn between the hard partying boyfriend he still loves and a successful older Australian man.

Halloween: Resurrection
2002
as Will Brennan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Reality programmers at DangerTainment select a group of thrill-seeking teenagers to spend one night in the childhood home of serial killer Michael Mye...

Stark Raving Mad
2002
as Don Partridge (uncredited)
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.

Roughing It
2002
as Henry
A teenaged Mark Twain travels to the American West during the "Gold Rush" days in search of fortune and his destiny.

Off Season
2001
as Richard Frangello
After the death of his parents, 10-year-old Jackson Mayhew moves in with his Aunt. But when he befriends an elderly man, he begins to suspect that the...

My Louisiana Sky
2001
Director
A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.

Mission
2001
as Vissarion Belinsky (voice)
Marvin, a young aspiring writer from New York, moves to California to write a novel. He ends up rooming with a chaotic, bohemian musician named Jay. M...
East of A
2000
as Sylvester
An aspiring singer, a troubled rich boy, and an ex-seminarian share an apartment in the East Village in this story dealing with AIDS, sexuality, and l...

Hanging Up
2000
as Joe Marks
Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly ...

Dropping Out
2000
as Scott Kayle
Emile Brockton enjoys TV, chicken pot pies, and...well, not much else. His life has become a meaningless procession of banal activities that prompt hi...

A Slight Case of Murder
1999
as Detective Fred Stapelli
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private ...

Lake Placid
1999
as Kevin
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix...

Thirst
1998
as Bob Miller
A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town...

With Friends Like These
1998
as Steve Hersh
Four small-time, two-bit character actors, all close friends, compete for the same important part in the next Martin Scorsese mob film.

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
as Will Brennan
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael ...

Not in This Town
1997
as Brian Schnitzer
When local hate groups besiege the town of Billings, Montana, the people of the community turn their backs. Only one woman takes a risk and battles th...

In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995
as Agent Gabriel Valentino
When a state trooper is gunned down on a New Jersey highway, his friend and colleague sets out to track down the killers. Realizing the murder is conn...

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
as Bookstore Manager
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet ...

Dottie Gets Spanked
1993
as Dick Gordon
A six-year-old boy in pre-hippie 1960s United States endures ridicule from his schoolmates and worry from his father over his fixation with a TV star ...

The Doctor
1991
as Eli
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has s...

A Promise to Keep
1990
as Louis Colt
Middle class parents, who already have three kids, take in their four orphaned nephews.

Babies
1990
as David
The physical and emotional trauma of three close-knit women trying to have children is explored.

Heat Wave
1990
as Art Berman
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Julie Brown: The Show
1989
as Jeff
Uniared pilot for a fictional CBS TV talk program hosted by bubbly actress Julie Brown. The proposal was to relate her misadventures on and off the se...

Necessary Parties
1988
as Mr. Dunfee
Fifteen-year-old Chris Mills isn't too happy with his divorcing parents. In fact, he doesn't want them to split at all, so he hires car repair shop ow...

Personal Foul
1987
A warm and heartfelt tale of a drifter who is befriended by a kind hearted grade school teacher.

The Fourth Wise Man
1985
as Joseph
Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family...

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981
as Charlie
Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, be...

Full Moon High
1981
as Tony
High-school quarterback Tony Walker is bitten by a werewolf and transforms into a growling beast that hungrily chases down beautiful girls.

Under the Rainbow
1981
as Henry Hudson
In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel R...

Improper Channels
1981
Writer
A father brings a young child to an emergency room to get treatment for a minor injury occurring in an innocent accident, but he gets accused of child...

Baby Blue Marine
1976
as Rupe
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Ma...

All Together Now
1975
as Jerry
Four orphaned children have 30 days to prove that they can remain together as a family without adult supervision. Based on a true story.

It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
1974
as Ken Walters
When Harry Walters runs out of gas, he gets picked up by a beautiful young woman. But when she pulls a gun on him and orders him to take his clothes o...

Made For Each Other
1971
as Teenage Gig
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.

The Monitors
1969
as Boy in Monitors Commercial
Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.

People Soup
1969
People Soup is a 1969 short film written and directed by Alan Arkin, with Adam Arkin and Matthew Arkin. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best L...