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