Alan Arkin, Oscar-winning 'Little Miss Sunshine' actor, dies at 89

FILE - Alan Arkin poses for a portrait in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Jan. 25, 2011. – Alan Arkin, the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in comedy and drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for"Little Miss Sunshine," has died. He was 89.

Arkin once joked to The Associated Press that the beauty of being a character actor was not having to take his clothes off for a role. He wasn't a sex symbol or superstar, but was rarely out of work, appearing in more than 100 TV and feature films.

1968's"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," in which he played a sensitive man who could not hear or speak, again elevated Arkin's status in Hollywood. He starred as the bumbling French detective in"Inspector Clouseau" that same year, but the film would become overlooked in favor of Peter Sellers' Clouseau in the"Pink Panther" movies.

Other recent credits included"Going in Style," a 2017 remake featuring fellow Oscar winners Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, and “The Kominsky Method.” He played a Hollywood talent agent and friend of Douglas' character, a once-promising actor who ran an acting school after his career sputtered.

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