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Alan Arkin

Highest Rated:: 100% The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
Lowest Rated:: 0% Coupe de Ville (1990)

Birthday:: Mar 26, 1934
Birthplace:: New York City, New York, USA
Bio:: As a multi-talented film and stage performer with an intense comic flair, the diminutive and stocky Jewish-American character actor Alan Arkin built a career for himself out of playing slightly gruff and opinionated yet endearing eccentrics. Though not commonly recognized as such, Arkin's ability…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%

Number of Movies: 85

Box Office Since 2001: $1100.5M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2014		Grudge Match	Actor	--
2013	38%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone	Rance Holloway	$17.4M
2013	36%	Stand Up Guys	Hirsch	$3.3M
2012	96%	Argo	Lester Siegel	$135.5M
2012	70%	Thin Ice	Gorvy Hauer	$0.8M
2011	96%	The Muppets	Tour Guide	$88.6M
2011	25%	The Change-Up	Mitch's Dad	$37.0M
2010	39%	Due Date	Actor	$100.4M
2009	67%	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee	Herb Lee	--
2009	81%	City Island	Michael Malakov	$6.7M
2008	51%	Get Smart	Chief	$130.2M
2008	64%	Marley & Me	Arnie Klein	$143.1M
2008	72%	Sunshine Cleaning	Joe Norkowski	$12.0M
2007	47%	Rendition	Senator Hawkins	$9.7M
2007	51%	Bee Movie	Director Actor	$126.6M
2006	23%	Raising Flagg	Flagg Purdy	--
2006		Crossroads	Father Behnke	--
2006	91%	Little Miss Sunshine	Grandpa	$59.8M
2006	15%	The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause	Bud Newman	$84.4M
2006	19%	Firewall	Arlin Forester	$48.7M
2005	34%	Eros	Dr. Pearl - Hal	$53.7k
2004	26%	Noel	Artie	--
2004		The Novice	Actor	--
2003		And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself	Sam Drebben	--
2003		The Pentagon Papers	Harry Rowen	--
2002	82%	13 Conversations About One Thing	Gene	$3.0M
2001		Varian's War	Actor	--
2001	31%	America's Sweethearts	Wellness Guide	$93.0M
2000		Magicians	Actor	--
1999	29%	Jakob the Liar	Frankfurter	--
1999		Blood Money	Willy the Hammer	--
1998	80%	Slums of Beverly Hills	Murray	--
1997	82%	Gattaca	Detective Hugo Director	--
1997	59%	Four Days in September (O Que � Isso, Companheiro?)	Charles Burke Elbrick	--
1997	79%	Grosse Pointe Blank	Dr. Oatman	--
1996	64%	Mother Night	Actor	--
1995	15%	Steal Big Steal Little	Lou Perilli	--
1995	9%	The Jerky Boys	Lazarro	--
1995		Heck's Way Home	Actor	--
1995		Picture Windows	Actor	--
1994		Doomsday Gun	Colonel Yossi	--
1994	96%	Bullets Over Broadway	Actor	--
1994	11%	North	Judge Buckle	--
1993		Taking The Heat	Tommy Canard	--
1993	50%	So I Married an Axe Murderer	Police Chief	--
1993	65%	Indian Summer	Uncle Lou	--
1992	94%	Glengarry Glen Ross	George Aaronow	--
1991	61%	The Rocketeer	Peevy	--
1990	24%	Havana	Joe Volpi	--
1990	0%	Coupe de Ville	Fred Libner	--
1990	91%	Edward Scissorhands	Bill Boggs	--
1988		Necessary Parties	Actor	--
1987		Escape From Sobibor	Leon Feldhendler	--
1986		Deadly Business	Harold Kaufman	--
1985		Joshua Then and Now	Reuben Shapiro	--
1985		The Fourth Wise Man	Actor	--
1985		Bad Medicine	Dr. Ramon Madera	--
1985		Big Trouble	Leonard Hoffman	--
1984		Faery Tale Theatre: The Emporor's New Clothes	Actor	--
1984		Faerie Tale Theatre - The Emperor's New Clothes	Actor	--
1983		A Matter of Principle	Flagg Purdy	--
1983		The Return of Captain Invincible (Legend in Leotards)	Capt. Invincible	--
1982	58%	The Last Unicorn	Schmendrick	--
1982		Full Moon High	Actor	--
1981		Chu Chu and the Philly Flash	Flash	--
1981		Improper Channels	Jeffrey Martley	--
1980	60%	Simon	Simon Mendelssohn	--
1979	88%	The In-Laws	Sheldon Kornpett	--
1979		Magician of Lublin	Yasha Mazur	--
1976	82%	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution	Sigmund Freud	--
1975		Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers)	Rafferty	--
1975	80%	Hearts Of The West (Hollywood Cowboy)	Kessler	--
1974		Freebie and the Bean	Bean	$8.3k
1972		Deadhead Miles	Cooper	--
1972		Last of the Red Hot Lovers	Barney Cashman	--
1971	57%	Little Murders	Director Detective	--
1970	87%	Catch-22	Capt. Yossarian	--
1969		Popi	Abraham	--
1968		Inspector Clouseau	Inspector Jacques Clouseau	--
1968	100%	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	John Singer	--
1967	94%	Wait Until Dark	Roat	--
1967		Woman Times Seven	Fred [The Suicides]	--
1966	82%	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	Lt. Rozanov	--
1939		Tales of Courage	Actor	--
		Guys With Guns	Actor	--

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1. Hollywood Reporter: What does Argo mean?
2. Lester Siegel: I don't know.
3. Hollywood Reporter: Well you have to know a little bit about what it means.
4. Lester Siegel: You want to know what it means? Argo fuck yourself!
From Argo. Submitted by Judson P (4 days ago)

1. John Chambers: How about the horses of Achilles?
2. Lester Siegel: No good. Nobody does Westerns anymore.
3. John Chambers: It's ancient Troy.
4. Lester Siegel: If it got horses in it, it's a Western.
From Argo. Submitted by Rolf J (12 days ago)