Adam Arkin
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).
118 acting credits · 44 directing credits
Acting · 118
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
The Daily Show
1996
Modern Family
2009
Monk
2002
Fargo
2014
Sons of Anarchy
2008
Frasier
1993
The West Wing
1999
The Closer
2005
MacGyver
1985
The Love Boat
1977
Boston Legal
2004
Knots Landing
1979
The Practice
1997
Chicago Hope
1994
Hawaii Five-O
1968
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
St. Elsewhere
1982
L.A. Law
1986
Masters of Sex
2013
Justified
2010
The Twilight Zone
1985
Barney Miller
1975
Happy Days
1974
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
Northern Exposure
1990
Poker Face
2023
Life
2007
The Newsroom
2012
8 Simple Rules
2002
China Beach
1988
The Bridge
2013
Harry O
1974
Commander in Chief
2005
Picket Fences
1992
Baseball
1994
Big Shot
2021
The American Revolution
2025
The Act
2019
The Carmichael Show
2015
Perversions of Science
1997
Rebel
2021
The Hidden Room
1991
Hitch
2005
A Year in the Life
1987
The West
1996
$weepstake$
1979
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009
The War
2007
Prohibition
2011
Teachers Only
1982
The Sessions
2012
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022
Lake Placid
1999
Baby Bob
2002
Hard Time on Planet Earth
1989
Family Tools
2013
A Serious Man
2009
Pig
2021
All Is Forgiven
1986
Pearl
1978
The American Buffalo
2023
MADtv
1995
Jessica Novak
1981
The Doctor
1991
Big Wave Dave's
1993
Oceano
1989
Hanging Up
2000
A Year in the Life
1986
In Security
2014
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1997
Busting Loose
1977
Kids in America
2005
Tough Cookies
1986
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
Stark Raving Mad
2002
Full Moon High
1981
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Just Peck
2011
Baby Blue Marine
1976
With Friends Like These
1998
Heat Wave
1990
TV Land Moguls
2004
Graduation
2007
Tell-Tale
2010
Off Season
2001
Dropping Out
2000
A Slight Case of Murder
1999
Under the Rainbow
1981
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
1995
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981
Babies
1990
Dottie Gets Spanked
1993
East of A
2000
The Fourth Wise Man
1985
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
2016
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
1974
Transplant
2024
All Together Now
1975
Thirst
1998
Roughing It
2002
Personal Foul
1987
Murder on Pleasant Drive
2006
Mission
2001
A Promise to Keep
1990
10 Cent Pistol
2014
Not in This Town
1997
Summer Eleven
2010
The Monitors
1969
Made For Each Other
1971
Unmasking the Horror
1998
Necessary Parties
1988
Julie Brown: The Show
1989
People Soup
1969
Directing · 44
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Blacklist
2013
Monk
2002
Fargo
2014
Sons of Anarchy
2008
The Closer
2005
Billions
2016
Rizzoli & Isles
2010
Boston Legal
2004
Chicago Hope
1994
The Americans
2013
The Night Agent
2023
Succession
2018
Masters of Sex
2013
Justified
2010
Lie to Me
2009
Northern Exposure
1990
Poker Face
2023
Life
2007
Ally McBeal
1997
Sneaky Pete
2015
Nurse Jackie
2009
The Bridge
2013
Extant
2014
Dirt
2007
Santa Clarita Diet
2017
Sugar
2024
Get Shorty
2017
Secrets and Lies
2015
The Finder
2012
The Offer
2022
The Riches
2007
The Act
2019
Terriers
2010
The Deep End
2010
The Chicago Code
2011
Big Day
2006
We Are Men
2013
The Booth at the End
2011
American Hostage
—
Outlaw Country
2012
Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls
2016
My Louisiana Sky
2001
Pristine Books
2003