Alan Arkin, a versatile and prolific American actor who thrived in both comic and dramatic roles and won an Oscar for playing a heroin-using grandfather in the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine, has died at 89, his family said. 7NEWS
Alan Arkin, a versatile and prolific American actor who thrived in both comic and dramatic roles and won an Oscar for playing a heroin-using grandfather in the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine, has died at 89, his family said.
Little Miss Sunshine stars Greg Kinnear, Jonathan Dayton, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin and Valerie Faris in 2007.Arkin was initially turned down for the Little Miss Sunshine role that ultimately won him a best-supporting-actor Oscar because the directors thought he was too healthy. He later said he hated the scenes in which his character terrorises Hepburn, saying: “I didn’t like being cruel to her. It made me very uncomfortable.”He appeared as a deaf-mute in the adaptation of Carson McCullers’ novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in 1968, drawing his second Academy Award nomination for best actor.
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