Adam Arkin
Acting • Born 1956-08-19
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
119 credits
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Movie • 1998
Will Brennan
Hitch
Movie • 2005
Max
A Serious Man
Movie • 2009
Divorce Lawyer
The Doctor
Movie • 1991
Eli
A Slight Case of Murder
Movie • 1999
Detective Fred Stapelli
Mission
Movie • 2001
Vissarion Belinsky (voice)
Summer Eleven
Movie • 2010
Under the Rainbow
Movie • 1981
Henry Hudson
Graduation
Movie • 2007
Dean Deeley
Full Moon High
Movie • 1981
Tony
Not in This Town
Movie • 1997
Brian Schnitzer
The Sessions
Movie • 2012
Josh
Murder on Pleasant Drive
Movie • 2006
John Smith
Tell-Tale
Movie • 2010
Husband
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
Movie • 1974
Ken Walters
Thirst
Movie • 1998
Bob Miller
People Soup
Movie • 1969
In Security
Movie • 2014
Broomhall
Hanging Up
Movie • 2000
Joe Marks
Off Season
Movie • 2001
Richard Frangello
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
Movie • 1995
Agent Gabriel Valentino
Dottie Gets Spanked
Movie • 1993
Dick Gordon
10 Cent Pistol
Movie • 2014
Nir Zir
A Promise to Keep
Movie • 1990
Louis Colt
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Movie • 1993
Bookstore Manager
Heat Wave
Movie • 1990
Art Berman
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
Movie • 1981
Charlie
Just Peck
Movie • 2011
Michael Peck
Dropping Out
Movie • 2000
Scott Kayle
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
Movie • 2016
Self
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Movie • 2003
Other Voices (voice)
With Friends Like These
Movie • 1998
Steve Hersh
Lake Placid
Movie • 1999
Kevin
Necessary Parties
Movie • 1988
Mr. Dunfee
Julie Brown: The Show
Movie • 1989
Jeff
All Together Now
Movie • 1975
Jerry
Babies
Movie • 1990
David
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Movie • 2006
Gabe Difranco
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Movie • 2004
Other Voices (voice)
The Monitors
Movie • 1969
Boy in Monitors Commercial
Baby Blue Marine
Movie • 1976
Rupe
Made For Each Other
Movie • 1971
Teenage Gig
The Fourth Wise Man
Movie • 1985
Joseph
Roughing It
Movie • 2002
Henry
Stark Raving Mad
Movie • 2002
Don Partridge (uncredited)
East of A
Movie • 2000
Sylvester
Personal Foul
Movie • 1987
Kids in America
Movie • 2005
Ed Mumsford
Pig
Movie • 2021
Darius
Transplant
Movie • 2024
Dr. Robinson
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Doug Zageck
Law & Order
TV • 1990
George Costas
Perversions of Science
TV • 1997
Paul Danko
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Richard Kendall
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Alex Lambert
Monk
TV • 2002
Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck
China Beach
TV • 1988
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Alex Scofield
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
(segment "A Matter of Minutes")
Barney Miller
TV • 1975
Howard Smith
Life
TV • 2007
Ted Earley
Happy Days
TV • 1974
Frasier
TV • 1993
Tom
MacGyver
TV • 1985
Tony Parisio
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Mark Baylor
The Practice
TV • 1997
Atty. Albert Ginsberg
8 Simple Rules
TV • 2002
Ed Gibb
Late Night with David Letterman
TV • 1982
Self
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Aaron Shutt
Boston Legal
TV • 2004
A.D.A. Douglas Kupfer
Big Wave Dave's
TV • 1993
Marshall Fisher
Big Shot
TV • 2021
Sam
Harry O
TV • 1974
Baby Bob
TV • 2002
Walter Spencer
Jessica Novak
TV • 1981
A Year in the Life
TV • 1987
Jim Eisenberg
TV Land Moguls
TV • 2004
Tough Cookies
TV • 1986
Busting Loose
TV • 1977
The West
TV • 1996
Self
Teachers Only
TV • 1982
Michael Dreyfuss
All is Forgiven
TV • 1986
Phil Douglas
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
TV • 2009
The Bridge
TV • 2013
Federal Investigator
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Stanley Keyworth
Sons of Anarchy
TV • 2008
Ethan Zobelle
Northern Exposure
TV • 1990
Adam
How to Get Away with Murder
TV • 2014
Wallace Mahoney
Modern Family
TV • 2009
Reece
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
TV • 1997
Merriwether Lewis (voice)
Fargo
TV • 2014
Hamish Boker
Oceano
TV • 1989
Candido Amado
The War
TV • 2007
Reader (voice)
The Carmichael Show
TV • 2015
Grant
A Year in the Life
TV • 1986
Jim Eisenberg
The U.S. and the Holocaust
TV • 2022
(voice)
Baseball
TV • 1994
Various (voice)
The American Buffalo
TV • 2023
(voice)
Justified
TV • 2010
Theo Tonin
Masters of Sex
TV • 2013
Shep Tally
Hard Time on Planet Earth
TV • 1989
Harry Newcomb
Rebel
TV • 2021
Mark Duncan
MADtv
TV • 1995
Self - Host
Commander in Chief
TV • 2005
Carl Brantley
The Newsroom
TV • 2012
Adam Roth
Prohibition
TV • 2011
Reader (voice)
Pearl
TV • 1978
Pvt. Billy Zylowski
The Act
TV • 2019
Detective
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Dr. Julius Adler
The Closer
TV • 2005
Scott Esposito / Steven Hirschbaum
Baseball
TV • 1994
(voice)
Poker Face
TV • 2023
Mark Getzler
$weepstake$
TV • 1979
Joey
Family Tools
TV • 2013
Mr. Baynor
The American Revolution
TV • 2025
James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
Picket Fences
TV • 1992
Edward
Picket Fences
TV • 1992
Attorney Robert Biel
Fargo
TV • 2014
Hamish Broker