Adam Arkin

Adam Arkin

1956-08-19 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 56 Credits

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...

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Transplant

Transplant

2024

as Dr. Robinson

Acting

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

Pig

Pig

2021

as Darius

6.7
Acting

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

Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls

2016

as Self

Acting

Go behind the scenes of the second season of Fargo.

Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls

Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls

2016

Director

Directing

Go behind the scenes of the second season of Fargo.

10 Cent Pistol

10 Cent Pistol

2014

as Nir Zir

4.8
Acting

A story about two lifelong criminals who maneuver through the shady underbelly of Los Angeles in search of wealth, love and redemption.

In Security

In Security

2014

as Broomhall

4.8
Acting

The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.

Outlaw Country

Outlaw Country

2012

Director

6.0
Directing

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

The Sessions

2012

as Josh

6.9
Acting

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

Just Peck

2011

as Michael Peck

5.5
Acting

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

Summer Eleven

2010

4.7
Acting

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

Tell-Tale

Tell-Tale

2010

as Husband

4.9
Acting

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

A Serious Man

2009

as Divorce Lawyer

6.7
Acting

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

Graduation

2007

as Dean Deeley

5.8
Acting

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

Murder on Pleasant Drive

2006

as John Smith

6.4
Acting

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

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

2006

as Gabe Difranco

5.8
Acting

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

Kids in America

2005

as Ed Mumsford

5.6
Acting

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

Hitch

2005

as Max

6.6
Acting

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

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2004

as Other Voices (voice)

7.1
Acting

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

2003

as Other Voices (voice)

7.3
Acting

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

Pristine Books

2003

Director

3.0
Directing

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

Halloween: Resurrection

Halloween: Resurrection

2002

as Will Brennan (archive footage) (uncredited)

4.6
Acting

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

Stark Raving Mad

2002

as Don Partridge (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.

Roughing It

Roughing It

2002

as Henry

4.7
Acting

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

Off Season

Off Season

2001

as Richard Frangello

3.2
Acting

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

My Louisiana Sky

2001

Director

6.5
Directing

A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.

Mission

Mission

2001

as Vissarion Belinsky (voice)

Acting

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

Acting

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

Hanging Up

2000

as Joe Marks

5.2
Acting

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

Dropping Out

2000

as Scott Kayle

1.5
Acting

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

A Slight Case of Murder

1999

as Detective Fred Stapelli

6.5
Acting

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

Lake Placid

1999

as Kevin

5.9
Acting

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

Thirst

1998

as Bob Miller

4.4
Acting

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

With Friends Like These

1998

as Steve Hersh

5.0
Acting

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

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

1998

as Will Brennan

6.0
Acting

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

Not in This Town

1997

as Brian Schnitzer

2.0
Acting

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

In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice

1995

as Agent Gabriel Valentino

4.0
Acting

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

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

1993

as Bookstore Manager

6.1
Acting

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

Dottie Gets Spanked

1993

as Dick Gordon

6.3
Acting

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

The Doctor

1991

as Eli

6.4
Acting

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

A Promise to Keep

1990

as Louis Colt

7.5
Acting

Middle class parents, who already have three kids, take in their four orphaned nephews.

Babies

Babies

1990

as David

Acting

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

Heat Wave

Heat Wave

1990

as Art Berman

6.2
Acting

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Julie Brown: The Show

Julie Brown: The Show

1989

as Jeff

Acting

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

Necessary Parties

1988

as Mr. Dunfee

7.0
Acting

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

Personal Foul

1987

Acting

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

The Fourth Wise Man

The Fourth Wise Man

1985

as Joseph

6.9
Acting

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

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

1981

as Charlie

4.6
Acting

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

Full Moon High

1981

as Tony

4.3
Acting

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

Under the Rainbow

1981

as Henry Hudson

5.2
Acting

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

Improper Channels

1981

Writer

10.0
Writing

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

Baby Blue Marine

1976

as Rupe

4.9
Acting

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

All Together Now

1975

as Jerry

Acting

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

It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

1974

as Ken Walters

1.0
Acting

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

Made For Each Other

1971

as Teenage Gig

5.0
Acting

An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.

The Monitors

The Monitors

1969

as Boy in Monitors Commercial

3.8
Acting

Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.

People Soup

People Soup

1969

6.0
Acting

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...