
Adam Arkin
Biography
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).
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Known For
Acting History
2025
The American Revolution as James Parker, Private Ashbel Green, Andrew Hunter, Enoch Anderson, Timothy Dwight, Robert Morris
2025The American Revolution
2024Transplant as Dr. Robinson
2023The American Buffalo as (voice)
2023Poker Face as Mark Getzler
2022The U.S. and the Holocaust as (voice)
2021Pig as Darius
2021Big Shot as Sam
2021Rebel as Mark Duncan
2019The Act as Detective
2016Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls as Self
2015The Carmichael Show as Grant
2014How to Get Away with Murder as Wallace Mahoney
201410 Cent Pistol as Nir Zir
2014In Security as Broomhall
2014Fargo as Hamish Boker
2013Masters of Sex as Shep Tally
2013The Bridge as Federal Investigator
2013Family Tools as Mr. Baynor
2012The Newsroom as Adam Roth
2012The Sessions as Josh
2011Prohibition as Reader (voice)
2011Just Peck as Michael Peck
2010Summer Eleven
2010Tell-Tale as Husband
2010Justified as Theo Tonin
2009A Serious Man as Divorce Lawyer
2009The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009Modern Family as Reece
2008Sons of Anarchy as Ethan Zobelle
2007Life as Ted Earley
2007The War as Reader (voice)
2007Graduation as Dean Deeley
2006Murder on Pleasant Drive as John Smith
2006Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School as Gabe Difranco
2005Kids in America as Ed Mumsford
2005Commander in Chief as Carl Brantley
2005The Closer as Scott Esposito / Steven Hirschbaum
2005Hitch as Max
2004Boston Legal as A.D.A. Douglas Kupfer
2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2004TV Land Moguls
2003Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip as Other Voices (voice)
20028 Simple Rules as Ed Gibb
2002Monk as Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck
2002Stark Raving Mad as Don Partridge (uncredited)
2002Baby Bob as Walter Spencer
2002Roughing It as Henry
2001Off Season as Richard Frangello
2001Mission as Vissarion Belinsky (voice)
2000East of A as Sylvester
2000Hanging Up as Joe Marks
2000Dropping Out as Scott Kayle
1999The West Wing as Stanley Keyworth
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Julius Adler
1999A Slight Case of Murder as Detective Fred Stapelli
1999Lake Placid as Kevin
1998Thirst as Bob Miller
1998With Friends Like These as Steve Hersh
1998Halloween H20: 20 Years Later as Will Brennan
1997Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery as Merriwether Lewis (voice)
1997Perversions of Science as Paul Danko
1997Not in This Town as Brian Schnitzer
1997The Practice as Atty. Albert Ginsberg
1996The West as Self
1996The Daily Show as Self
1995MADtv as Self - Host
1995In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice as Agent Gabriel Valentino
1994Chicago Hope as Aaron Shutt
1994Baseball as Various (voice)
1994Baseball as (voice)
1993Wrestling Ernest Hemingway as Bookstore Manager
1993Dottie Gets Spanked as Dick Gordon
1993Frasier as Tom
1993Big Wave Dave's as Marshall Fisher
1992Picket Fences as Edward
1992Picket Fences as Attorney Robert Biel
1991The Doctor as Eli
1990A Promise to Keep as Louis Colt
1990Babies as David
1990Law & Order as George Costas
1990Heat Wave as Art Berman
1990Northern Exposure as Adam
1989Julie Brown: The Show as Jeff
1989Oceano as Candido Amado
1989Hard Time on Planet Earth as Harry Newcomb
1988China Beach
1988Necessary Parties as Mr. Dunfee
1987A Year in the Life as Jim Eisenberg
1987Personal Foul
1986A Year in the Life as Jim Eisenberg
1986L.A. Law as Richard Kendall
1986All is Forgiven as Phil Douglas
1986Tough Cookies
1985MacGyver as Tony Parisio
1985The Twilight Zone as (segment "A Matter of Minutes")
1985The Fourth Wise Man as Joseph
1982St. Elsewhere as Doug Zageck
1982Teachers Only as Michael Dreyfuss
1982Late Night with David Letterman as Self
1981Jessica Novak
1981Chu Chu and the Philly Flash as Charlie
1981Full Moon High as Tony
1981Under the Rainbow as Henry Hudson
1979Knots Landing as Mark Baylor
1979$weepstake$ as Joey
1978Pearl as Pvt. Billy Zylowski
1977The Love Boat as Alex Lambert
1977Busting Loose
1976Baby Blue Marine as Rupe
1975All Together Now as Jerry
1975Barney Miller as Howard Smith
1974It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy as Ken Walters
1974Harry O
1974Happy Days
1971Made For Each Other as Teenage Gig
1969The Monitors as Boy in Monitors Commercial
1969People Soup
1968Hawaii Five-O as Alex Scofield









