Adam Arkin
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 19, 1956 (age 70)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Credits
- 120
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
Filmography
The American Revolution
2025TV
James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
Transplant
2024Movie
Dr. Robinson
The American Buffalo
2023TV
(voice)
Poker Face
2023TV
Mark Getzler
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022TV
Self (voice)
Pig
2021Movie
Darius
Big Shot
2021TV
Sam
Rebel
2021TV
Mark Duncan
The Act
2019TV
Detective
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
2016Movie
Self
The Carmichael Show
2015TV
Grant
How to Get Away with Murder
2014TV
Wallace Mahoney
10 Cent Pistol
2014Movie
Nir Zir
In Security
2014Movie
Broomhall
Fargo
2014TV
Hamish Boker, Hamish Broker
Masters of Sex
2013TV
Shep Tally
The Bridge
2013TV
Federal Investigator
Family Tools
2013TV
Mr. Baynor
The Newsroom
2012TV
Adam Roth
The Sessions
2012Movie
Josh
Prohibition
2011TV
Reader (voice)
Just Peck
2011Movie
Michael Peck
Summer Eleven
2010Movie
Tell-Tale
2010Movie
Husband
Justified
2010TV
Theo Tonin
A Serious Man
2009Movie
Divorce Lawyer
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009TV
Modern Family
2009TV
Reece
Sons of Anarchy
2008TV
Ethan Zobelle
Life
2007TV
Ted Earley
The War
2007TV
Reader (voice)
Graduation
2007Movie
Dean Deeley
Murder on Pleasant Drive
2006Movie
John Smith
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006Movie
Gabe Difranco
Kids in America
2005Movie
Ed Mumsford
Commander in Chief
2005TV
Carl Brantley
The Closer
2005TV
Scott Esposito / Steven Hirschbaum
Hitch
2005Movie
Max
Boston Legal
2004TV
A.D.A. Douglas Kupfer
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004Movie
Other Voices (voice)
TV Land Moguls
2004TV
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003Movie
Other Voices (voice)
8 Simple Rules
2002TV
Ed Gibb
Monk
2002TV
Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck
Stark Raving Mad
2002Movie
Don Partridge (uncredited)
Baby Bob
2002TV
Walter Spencer
Roughing It
2002Movie
Henry
Roughing It
2002TV
Henry
Off Season
2001Movie
Richard Frangello
Mission
2001Movie
Vissarion Belinsky (voice)
East of A
2000Movie
Sylvester
Hanging Up
2000Movie
Joe Marks
Dropping Out
2000Movie
Scott Kayle
The West Wing
1999TV
Stanley Keyworth
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999TV
Dr. Julius Adler
A Slight Case of Murder
1999Movie
Detective Fred Stapelli
Lake Placid
1999Movie
Kevin
Thirst
1998Movie
Bob Miller
With Friends Like These
1998Movie
Steve Hersh
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998Movie
Will Brennan
Unmasking the Horror
1998Movie
Self
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1997TV
Merriwether Lewis (voice)
Perversions of Science
1997TV
Paul Danko
Not in This Town
1997Movie
Brian Schnitzer
The Practice
1997TV
Albert Ginsberg
The West
1996TV
Self
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self
MADtv
1995TV
Self - Host
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995Movie
Agent Gabriel Valentino
Chicago Hope
1994TV
Aaron Shutt
Baseball
1994TV
Various (voice), (voice)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993Movie
Bookstore Manager
Dottie Gets Spanked
1993Movie
Dick Gordon
Frasier
1993TV
Tom
Big Wave Dave's
1993TV
Marshall Fisher
Picket Fences
1992TV
Edward, Attorney Robert Biel
The Doctor
1991Movie
Eli
The Hidden Room
1991TV
A Promise to Keep
1990Movie
Louis Colt
Babies
1990Movie
David
Law & Order
1990TV
George Costas
Heat Wave
1990Movie
Art Berman
Northern Exposure
1990TV
Adam
Julie Brown: The Show
1989Movie
Jeff
Oceano
1989TV
Candido Amado
Hard Time on Planet Earth
1989TV
Harry Newcomb
China Beach
1988TV
Necessary Parties
1988Movie
Mr. Dunfee
A Year in the Life
1987TV
Jim Eisenberg
Personal Foul
1987Movie
A Year in the Life
1986TV
Jim Eisenberg
L.A. Law
1986TV
Richard Kendall
All Is Forgiven
1986TV
Phil Douglas
Tough Cookies
1986TV
MacGyver
1985TV
Tony Parisio
The Twilight Zone
1985TV
(segment "A Matter of Minutes")
The Fourth Wise Man
1985Movie
Joseph
St. Elsewhere
1982TV
Doug Zageck
Teachers Only
1982TV
Michael Dreyfuss
Late Night with David Letterman
1982TV
Self
Jessica Novak
1981TV
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981Movie
Charlie
Full Moon High
1981Movie
Tony
Under the Rainbow
1981Movie
Henry Hudson
Knots Landing
1979TV
Mark Baylor
$weepstake$
1979TV
Joey
Pearl
1978TV
Pvt. Billy Zylowski
The Love Boat
1977TV
Alex Lambert, Jonathan Stevens
Busting Loose
1977TV
Baby Blue Marine
1976Movie
Rupe
All Together Now
1975Movie
Jerry
Barney Miller
1975TV
Howard Smith
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
1974Movie
Ken Walters
Harry O
1974TV
Moe and Joe
1974Movie
Happy Days
1974TV
Made For Each Other
1971Movie
Teenage Gig
The Monitors
1969Movie
Boy in Monitors Commercial
Hawaii Five-O
1969TV
Alex Scofield
People Soup
1969Movie