Are you listening? a lot of women, Dwayne.ĪRKIN: (As Edwin Hoover) Not just one woman. GREG KINNEAR: (As Richard Hoover) Can't wait to hear this.ĪRKIN: (As Edwin Hoover) Dwayne - that's your name, right? Dwayne. I don't want you making the same mistakes I made when I was young. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE")ĪRKIN: (As Edwin Hoover) Can I give you some advice? Well, I'm going to give it to you anyway. He won his Academy Award for playing the foul-mouthed grandfather in the 2006 film "Little Miss Sunshine." The family is crammed into a van for a road trip, and the grandfather, played by Arkin, starts a conversation with the grandson seated silently next to him, while Arkin's son, played by Greg Kinnear, drives and objects.
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Elsewhere," and at the end of his career was racking up Emmy nominations as a supporting actor in the Netflix comedy series "The Kominsky Method."
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He was an early member of the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago and won a Tony Award in 1961 for starring in the comedy "Enter Laughing." His movie debut was as one of the stars of "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," and his later films included him playing Sigmund Freud in "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" and playing opposite Peter Falk in "The In-Laws." On TV, he played a grieving husband in a recurring role on "St.
Before he began acting on stage, screen and TV, he was a member of the folk singing group The Tarriers, who had a hit with "The Banana Boat Song" in 1956, the same year as Harry Belafonte. That's Catch-22.ĪRKIN: (As John Yossarian) That's some catch, that Catch-22.īIANCULLI: Alan Arkin played both comic and dramatic parts and came from a background that was equally versatile. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy anymore, and I have to keep flying. In order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy. Anyone who wants to get out of combat isn't really crazy, so I can't ground him.ĪRKIN: (As John Yossarian) OK. But the doctor, played by Jack Gilford, explained why that wasn't so easy. He cornered the company doctor on the airstrip as planes took off loudly all around them and asked to be declared too crazy to fly. One of his most famous starring roles was in the 1970 Mike Nichols movie version of Joseph Heller's "Catch-22." He played Yossarian, the World War II bombardier who wanted to stop flying dangerous bomber missions. Alan Arkin, the Oscar-winning actor who appeared in such films as "Wait Until Dark," "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Argo" died last week at age 89.
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