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BIRTHDAY

August 19, 1956

Brooklyn, NY

RECENT CREDITS

A Serious Man (FILM) Oct. 2, 2009

Graduation (FILM) May. 2, 2008

Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing ... (FILM) Mar. 31, 2006

Kids in America (FILM) Oct. 21, 2005

With Friends Like These (FILM) Feb. 25, 2005

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BIOGRAPHY

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The oldest of three sons of Broadway star Alan Arkin, American actor Adam Arkin has had stage and movie work, but is best known for his TV assignments. In 1977 Arkin was starred in his first series, the one-season sitcom Bustin' Loose, wherein the 21-year-old actor played a man finally escaping his overprotective parents. Arkin went on to play an inner-city biology teacher in the brief 1982 TV series Teachers Only; a Chicago bookie in the short-lived 1986 weekly Tough Cookies; and an attorney in 1988's A Year in the Life, which lasted eight months of our lives. In 1990, just when it seemed as though Arkin was going to become the King of Cancellation, he made the first of many guest appearances on the quirky CBS series Northern Exposure as Adam, the sociopathic, in-your-face hermit/gourmet chef. The character reappeared sporadically until 1993, sometimes as a welcome touch of anarchy, other times as merely a loud-mouthed royal pain. In 1994, Adam Arkin was given his most recent crack at regular weekly series work, playing a dedicated but mercurial doctor on the TV drama Chicago Hope, where he was matched insult for insult by the equally obstreperous Mandy Patinkin.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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