
Adam Arkin
Department: Acting
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 Northern Exposure playing the angry, paranoid Adam, for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2002, Arkin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for My Louisiana Sky. Between 2007 and 2009, he co-starred in the drama series Life. In 2009, he portrayed villain Ethan Zobelle, a white separatist gang leader, in Sons of Anarchy, and Principal Ed Gibb in 8 Simple Rules (2003–2005).
Known For

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998

Hitch
2005

A Serious Man
2009

The Doctor
1991

A Slight Case of Murder
1999

Mission
2001

Summer Eleven
2010

Under the Rainbow
1981

Graduation
2007

Full Moon High
1981

Not in This Town
1997

The Sessions
2012

Murder on Pleasant Drive
2006

Tell-Tale
2010

It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
1974

Thirst
1998

People Soup
1969

In Security
2014

Hanging Up
2000

Off Season
2001

In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995

Dottie Gets Spanked
1993

10 Cent Pistol
2014

A Promise to Keep
1990

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993

Heat Wave
1990

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981

Just Peck
2011

Dropping Out
2000

Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
2016

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003

With Friends Like These
1998

Lake Placid
1999

Necessary Parties
1988

Julie Brown: The Show
1989

All Together Now
1975

Babies
1990

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004

The Fourth Wise Man
1985

The Monitors
1969

Baby Blue Marine
1976

Made For Each Other
1971

Roughing It
2002

Stark Raving Mad
2002

East of A
2000

Personal Foul
1987

Kids in America
2005

Pig
2021

Transplant
2024

Unmasking the Horror
1998

St. Elsewhere
1982

Law & Order
1990

Perversions of Science
1997

L.A. Law
1986

The Daily Show
1996

The Love Boat
1977

Monk
2002

China Beach
1988

Hawaii Five-O
1968

The Twilight Zone
1985

Barney Miller
1975

Life
2007

Happy Days
1974

Frasier
1993

MacGyver
1985

Knots Landing
1979

The Practice
1997

8 Simple Rules
2002

Late Night with David Letterman
1982

Chicago Hope
1994

Boston Legal
2004

Big Wave Dave's
1993

Big Shot
2021

Harry O
1974

Baby Bob
2002

Jessica Novak
1981

A Year in the Life
1987

TV Land Moguls
2004

Tough Cookies
1986

Busting Loose
1977

The West
1996

Teachers Only
1982

All is Forgiven
1986

The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009

The Bridge
2013

The West Wing
1999

Sons of Anarchy
2008

Northern Exposure
1990

How to Get Away with Murder
2014

Modern Family
2009

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1997

Fargo
2014

Oceano
1989

The War
2007

The Carmichael Show
2015

A Year in the Life
1986

The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022

Baseball
1994

The American Buffalo
2023

Justified
2010

Masters of Sex
2013

Hard Time on Planet Earth
1989

Rebel
2021

MADtv
1995

Commander in Chief
2005

The Newsroom
2012

Prohibition
2011

Pearl
1978

The Act
2019

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

The Closer
2005

Baseball
1994

Poker Face
2023

$weepstake$
1979

Family Tools
2013

The American Revolution
2025

Picket Fences
1992

Picket Fences
1992

Fargo
2014