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

• American Hostage — Director, Executive Producer
• The American Revolution — James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
• Sugar — Co-Executive Producer, Director
• 2024Transplant — Dr. Robinson
• Poker Face — Mark Getzler, Director, Executive Producer
• The American Buffalo — (voice)
• The Night Agent — Director
• The Offer — Director
• Big Shot — Sam
• 2021Pig — Darius
• Rebel — Mark Duncan
• The Act — Detective, Director
• Succession — Director
• Get Shorty — Executive Producer, Director
• Santa Clarita Diet — Director
• Billions — Director
• 2016Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls — Self, Director
• Secrets and Lies — Director
• Sneaky Pete — Director
• The Carmichael Show — Grant
• 201410 Cent Pistol — Nir Zir
• Extant — Director
• Fargo — Hamish Boker, Hamish Broker, Director
• How to Get Away with Murder — Wallace Mahoney
• 2014In Security — Broomhall
• Family Tools — Mr. Baynor
• Masters of Sex — Shep Tally, Director
• The Americans — Director, Producer
• The Blacklist — Director
• The Bridge — Federal Investigator, Director
• We Are Men — Director
• 2012Outlaw Country — Director
• The Finder — Director
• The Newsroom — Adam Roth
• 2012The Sessions — Josh
• 2011Just Peck — Michael Peck
• Prohibition — Reader (voice)
• The Booth at the End — Director
• The Chicago Code — Director
• Justified — Theo Tonin, Director
• Rizzoli & Isles — Director
• 2010Summer Eleven
• 2010Tell-Tale — Husband
• Terriers — Director
• The Deep End — Director
• 2009A Serious Man — Divorce Lawyer
• Lie to Me — Director
• Modern Family — Reece
• Nurse Jackie — Director
• The National Parks: America's Best Idea
• Sons of Anarchy — Ethan Zobelle, Director
• Dirt — Director
• 2007Graduation — Dean Deeley
• Life — Ted Earley, Director
• The Riches — Director
• The War — Reader (voice)
• Big Day — Director
• 2006Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School — Gabe Difranco
• 2006Murder on Pleasant Drive — John Smith
• Commander in Chief — Carl Brantley
• Grey's Anatomy — Director
• 2005Hitch — Max
• 2005Kids in America — Ed Mumsford
• The Closer — Scott Esposito / Steven Hirschbaum, Director
• Boston Legal — A.D.A. Douglas Kupfer, Director
• TV Land Moguls
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• 2003Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip — Other Voices (voice)
• 2003Pristine Books — Director
• 8 Simple Rules — Ed Gibb
• Baby Bob — Walter Spencer
• Monk — Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck, Director
• 2002Roughing It — Henry
• Roughing It — Henry
• 2002Stark Raving Mad — Don Partridge (uncredited)
• 2001Mission — Vissarion Belinsky (voice)
• 2001My Louisiana Sky — Director
• 2001Off Season — Richard Frangello
• 2000Dropping Out — Scott Kayle
• 2000East of A — Sylvester
• 2000Hanging Up — Joe Marks
• 1999A Slight Case of Murder — Detective Fred Stapelli
• 1999Lake Placid — Kevin
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Dr. Julius Adler
• The West Wing — Stanley Keyworth
• 1998Halloween H20: 20 Years Later — Will Brennan
• 1998Thirst — Bob Miller
• 1998With Friends Like These — Steve Hersh
• Ally McBeal — Director
• Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery — Merriwether Lewis (voice)
• 1997Not in This Town — Brian Schnitzer
• Perversions of Science — Paul Danko
• The Practice — Albert Ginsberg
• 1995In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice — Agent Gabriel Valentino
• Baseball — Various (voice)
• Chicago Hope — Aaron Shutt, Director
• Big Wave Dave's — Marshall Fisher
• 1993Dottie Gets Spanked — Dick Gordon
• Frasier — Tom
• 1993Wrestling Ernest Hemingway — Bookstore Manager
• Picket Fences — Edward, Attorney Robert Biel
• 1991The Doctor — Eli
• The Hidden Room
• 1990A Promise to Keep — Louis Colt
• 1990Babies — David
• 1990Heat Wave — Art Berman
• Law & Order — George Costas
• Northern Exposure — Adam, Director
• Hard Time on Planet Earth — Harry Newcomb
• 1989Julie Brown: The Show — Jeff
• Oceano — Candido Amado
• China Beach
• 1988Necessary Parties — Mr. Dunfee
• A Year in the Life — Jim Eisenberg
• 1987Personal Foul
• A Year in the Life — Jim Eisenberg
• All Is Forgiven — Phil Douglas
• L.A. Law — Richard Kendall
• Tough Cookies
• MacGyver — Tony Parisio
• 1985The Fourth Wise Man — Joseph
• The Twilight Zone — (segment "A Matter of Minutes")
• St. Elsewhere — Doug Zageck
• Teachers Only — Michael Dreyfuss
• 1981Chu Chu and the Philly Flash — Charlie
• 1981Full Moon High — Tony
• 1981Improper Channels — Writer
• Jessica Novak
• 1981Under the Rainbow — Henry Hudson
• $weepstake$ — Joey
• Knots Landing — Mark Baylor
• Pearl — Pvt. Billy Zylowski
• Busting Loose
• The Love Boat — Alex Lambert, Jonathan Stevens
• 1976Baby Blue Marine — Rupe
• 1975All Together Now — Jerry
• Barney Miller — Howard Smith
• Happy Days
• Harry O
• 1974It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy — Ken Walters
• 1974Moe and Joe
• 1971Made For Each Other — Teenage Gig
• Hawaii Five-O — Alex Scofield
• 1969People Soup
• 1969The Monitors — Boy in Monitors Commercial

Appearances as themselves (5)

• The U.S. and the Holocaust — Self (voice)
• The Daily Show — Self
• The West — Self
• MADtv — Self - Host
• Late Night with David Letterman — Self