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Adam Arkin
Known for: ActingAdam 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 39
Chicago Hope
as Aaron Shutt 
Life
as Ted Earley 
Pig
+1
as Darius 
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
+6
as Will Brennan 
Lake Placid
+8
as Kevin 
Hitch
+3
as Max 
The War
as Reader (voice) 
The Sessions
+3
as Josh 
Hanging Up
+4
as Joe Marks 
Prohibition
as Reader (voice) 
The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Self (voice) 
The West
as Self 
The American Buffalo
as (voice) 
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
as Merriwether Lewis (voice) 
The Doctor
+2
as Eli 
In Security
+1
as Broomhall 
Oceano
as Candido Amado 
Roughing It
as Henry 
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Bookstore Manager 
Stark Raving Mad
as Don Partridge (uncredited) 
The Fourth Wise Man
as Joseph 
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
+4
as Gabe Difranco 
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice) 
Full Moon High
as Tony 
Under the Rainbow
as Henry Hudson 
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
as Agent Gabriel Valentino 
With Friends Like These
as Steve Hersh 
Kids in America
as Ed Mumsford 
Graduation
+2
as Dean Deeley 
Thirst
as Bob Miller 
Off Season
as Richard Frangello 
Murder on Pleasant Drive
as John Smith 
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
as Other Voices (voice) 
My Louisiana Sky
Director 
Heat Wave
as Art Berman 
The Monitors
as Boy in Monitors Commercial 
Dottie Gets Spanked
as Dick Gordon