Adam Arkin
Born: 1956-08-19 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For: 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).
Filmography
2025
- The American Revolution as James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
2024
- Sugar ... (Co-Executive Producer)
- Transplant as Dr. Robinson
2023
- The Night Agent ... (Director)
- Poker Face as Mark Getzler
- The American Buffalo as (voice)
2022
- The Offer ... (Director)
- The U.S. and the Holocaust as Self (voice)
2019
- The Act as Detective
2018
- Succession ... (Director)
2017
- Get Shorty ... (Executive Producer)
- Santa Clarita Diet ... (Director)
2016
- Billions ... (Director)
- Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls as Self
2015
- Sneaky Pete ... (Director)
- Secrets and Lies ... (Director)
- The Carmichael Show as Grant
2014
- Fargo as Hamish Boker
- How to Get Away with Murder as Wallace Mahoney
- Extant ... (Director)
- In Security as Broomhall
- 10 Cent Pistol as Nir Zir
2013
- The Blacklist ... (Director)
- The Americans ... (Director)
- Masters of Sex as Shep Tally
- The Bridge as Federal Investigator
- We Are Men ... (Director)
- Family Tools as Mr. Baynor
2012
- The Newsroom as Adam Roth
- The Finder ... (Director)
- The Sessions as Josh
- Outlaw Country ... (Director)
2011
- The Chicago Code ... (Director)
- Prohibition as Reader (voice)
- The Booth at the End ... (Director)
- Just Peck as Michael Peck
2010
- Rizzoli & Isles ... (Director)
- Justified as Theo Tonin
- Terriers ... (Director)
- The Deep End ... (Director)
- Tell-Tale as Husband
- Summer Eleven
2009
- Modern Family as Reece
- Lie to Me ... (Director)
- Nurse Jackie ... (Director)
- The National Parks: America's Best Idea
- A Serious Man as Divorce Lawyer
2008
- Sons of Anarchy as Ethan Zobelle
2007
- Life as Ted Earley
- Dirt ... (Director)
- The Riches ... (Director)
- The War as Reader (voice)
- Graduation as Dean Deeley
2006
- Big Day ... (Director)
- Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School as Gabe Difranco
- Murder on Pleasant Drive as John Smith
2005
- Grey's Anatomy ... (Director)
- The Closer as Scott Esposito / Steven Hirschbaum
- Commander in Chief as Carl Brantley
- Hitch as Max
- Kids in America as Ed Mumsford
2004
- Boston Legal as A.D.A. Douglas Kupfer
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- TV Land Moguls
2003
- Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip as Other Voices (voice)
- Pristine Books ... (Director)
2002
- Monk as Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck
- 8 Simple Rules as Ed Gibb
- Baby Bob as Walter Spencer
- Stark Raving Mad as Don Partridge (uncredited)
- Roughing It as Henry
2001
- My Louisiana Sky ... (Director)
- Off Season as Richard Frangello
- Mission as Vissarion Belinsky (voice)
2000
- Hanging Up as Joe Marks
- Dropping Out as Scott Kayle
- East of A as Sylvester
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Julius Adler
- The West Wing as Stanley Keyworth
- Lake Placid as Kevin
- A Slight Case of Murder as Detective Fred Stapelli
1998
- Halloween H20: 20 Years Later as Will Brennan
- With Friends Like These as Steve Hersh
- Thirst as Bob Miller
- Unmasking the Horror
1997
- The Practice as Atty. Albert Ginsberg
- Ally McBeal ... (Director)
- Perversions of Science as Paul Danko
- Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery as Merriwether Lewis (voice)
- Not in This Town as Brian Schnitzer
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- The West as Self
1995
- MADtv as Self - Host
- In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice as Agent Gabriel Valentino
1994
- Chicago Hope as Aaron Shutt
- Baseball as Various (voice)
1993
- Frasier as Tom
- Big Wave Dave's as Marshall Fisher
- Wrestling Ernest Hemingway as Bookstore Manager
- Dottie Gets Spanked as Dick Gordon
1992
- Picket Fences as Edward
1991
- The Hidden Room
- The Doctor as Eli
1990
- Law & Order as George Costas
- Northern Exposure as Adam
- Heat Wave as Art Berman
- Babies as David
- A Promise to Keep as Louis Colt
1989
- Hard Time on Planet Earth as Harry Newcomb
- Oceano as Candido Amado
- Julie Brown: The Show as Jeff
1988
- China Beach
- Necessary Parties as Mr. Dunfee
1987
- A Year in the Life as Jim Eisenberg
- Personal Foul
1986
- L.A. Law as Richard Kendall
- All Is Forgiven as Phil Douglas
- A Year in the Life as Jim Eisenberg
- Tough Cookies
1985
- MacGyver as Tony Parisio
- The Twilight Zone as (segment "A Matter of Minutes")
- The Fourth Wise Man as Joseph
1982
- St. Elsewhere as Doug Zageck
- Late Night with David Letterman as Self
- Teachers Only as Michael Dreyfuss
1981
- Jessica Novak
- Full Moon High as Tony
- Under the Rainbow as Henry Hudson
- Improper Channels ... (Writer)
- Chu Chu and the Philly Flash as Charlie
1979
- Knots Landing as Mark Baylor
- $weepstake$ as Joey
1978
- Pearl as Pvt. Billy Zylowski
1977
- The Love Boat as Alex Lambert
- Busting Loose
1976
- Baby Blue Marine as Rupe
1975
- Barney Miller as Howard Smith
- All Together Now as Jerry
1974
- Happy Days
- Harry O
- It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy as Ken Walters
1971
- Made For Each Other as Teenage Gig
1969
- The Monitors as Boy in Monitors Commercial
- People Soup
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Alex Scofield