(Los Angeles) American actor Alan Arkin, Oscar winner for his role as a grumpy grandfather in Little Miss Sunshinedied at the age of 89, his family announced on Friday.
The comedian, a popular second role in American cinema and recognized for his improvisational skills, died at his home in California, according to a statement from his sons.
He “was a force of nature and a very talented artist,” praised Adam, Matthew and Anthony. “He will be greatly missed. »
Over his 70-year career, Alan Arkin has played many tongue-in-cheek characters. The best known remains his incarnation of a cantankerous grandfather with a flowery language in Little Miss Sunshinefor which he received the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2007.
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Alan Arkin won the Oscar for best supporting actor in 2007 for his role as a cantankerous, flowery grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine.
His role as a Hollywood producer, capable of creating a fake film for the CIA in the Argo by Ben Affleck, had also marked the spirits and had earned him an Oscar nomination.
Earlier in his career, he had also been nominated for Cold War satire The Russians are coming (1966) and the drama The heart is a lone hunter (1968), where he plays a deaf-mute.
Actor in film and television as well as in the theater, Alan Arkin also played in the adaptation of the novel Wrestling 22 by Mike Nichols, or in Edward Scissorhands by Tim Burton and Welcome to Gattaca.
In recent years, the actor had also been nominated several times for the Emmy Awards, the television equivalent of the Oscars, for his performance in the Netflix series The Kominsky methodwhere he gave the reply to Michael Douglas.