Actor Alan Arkin, Hollywood’s other Woody Allen, has died

Sadness in the world of cinema, farewell to Alan Arkin

Sadness in the world of cinema. Alan Arkin, Oscar-winning actor for Little Miss Sunshine, died yesterday at his home in Carlsbad, California. He was 89 years old. It was the kids Adam, Matthew and Anthony to spread the word. “Our father – they wrote in a statement – was a force of nature with a unique talent, both as an artist and as a man. A loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather loved by all. We will miss him very much.

Born 1934 in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family of Ukrainian, Russian and German descent, daughter of a painter and a teacher, Arkin then he grew up The angelwhere the father had found employment as a set designer in the studios of Hollywood. A crucial turning point, because from that moment the cinema has never left his life as an actor, writer and director. Arking had already enrolled in an acting class at the age of ten before graduating from Bennington College.

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