RIP Alan Arkin

[gunhilltrain]

The first time I ever saw him was in the movie The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, a somewhat silly yet amusing film about ta Soviet sub run-aground off New England. I didn't realize that he won a Golden Globe for that role, plus an Academy Award nomination. He did get an Oscar for 2006's Little Miss Sunshine.

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[Comshaw]

The first time I ever saw him was in the movie The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, a somewhat silly yet amusing film about ta Soviet sub run-aground off New England. I didn't realize that he won a Golden Globe for that role, plus an Academy Award nomination. He did get an Oscar for 2006's Little Miss Sunshine.

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I saw that movie but I didn't realize he was in it. The first time I remember seeing him was in "Catch 22". RIP.

Comshaw

 

[Candy_Kane54]

My favorite movie of his was "The In-Laws" with Peter Faulk as the future father-in-law. That was a hilarious movie ...

 

[WyreBendr0417]

My favorite movie of his was "The In-Laws" with Peter Faulk as the future father-in-law. That was a hilarious movie ...

One of mine too. He could play a wide variety of roles. Quite the scary bastard in Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn.

 

[gunhilltrain]

These posts are quite depressing. I can envision a not-too-distant future where a post titled "RIP Tilan" gets thousands of likes, accompanied by an abundance of exuberant comments.

Except you won't be around to see it, unless you believe you will have Internet access in the afterlife.

 

[gunhilltrain]

My favorite movie of his was "The In-Laws" with Peter Faulk as the future father-in-law. That was a hilarious movie ...

He was one of those actors who seemed to become one with the role, or sort of disappear into it. I doubt people went to a film merely because he was in it. It wasn't like, "Oh, yeah, this has Harrison Ford in it." Yet he could do a wide range of performances, and he was always working on something, be it movies, television, the theater, and even writing books.

 

[jehoram]

One of mine too. He could play a wide variety of roles. Quite the scary bastard in Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn.

That was the first role I saw him in, and it blew me away.

And he had a nice role in an under-rated movie called "Mother Night" with Nick Nolte, John Goodman, and Sheryl Lee. It was an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel, and had the briefest of cameos of the author himself.

 

[KeithD]

These posts are quite depressing. I can envision a not-too-distant future where a post titled "RIP Tilan" gets thousands of likes, accompanied by an abundance of exuberant comments.

I doubt there will be such a thread.

 

[Athalia]

He's an actor I'll miss. As others have said, he had the remarkable ability to vanish into a role, to the point where it would have been different in retrospect to imagine any other actor in that role.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I've only recently learned who he was. That isn't to say that I haven't seen him in shows. But his hay day was prior to my birth. But from what I've seen of him, he was cute and funny in comedies. He also handled drama well. And I love his son Adam.

RIP

 

[MillieDynamite]

I doubt there will be such a thread.

Perhaps a thread titled, Thank God and Greyhound, he's gone.