Early life

Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, to actor, director and writer Alan Arkin and his first wife Jeremy Yaffe. He graduated from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York.

Career

Arkin guest-starred in the award-winning television show Happy Days in episode 185 in 1975. His first starring role in television was as Lenny Markowitz, the central character in the 1977 situation comedy Busting Loose. He since has appeared in various television series such as The Twilight Zone (1986), Northern Exposure (CBS, 1990-95), where he played the mercurial barefooted chef Adam, and Chicago Hope (CBS, 1994-2000). He appeared in two Law & Order episodes, "Self Defense" (Season 3, 1992) as jewelry store owner George Costas and "Red Ball" (Season 16, 2005) as a district attorney named Charles Graham. He also appeared in Picket Fences (Season 2 Episode 13). Other recent television appearances include The West Wing (1999) (as trauma specialist and psychiatrist Dr. Stanley Keyworth), Frasier, as an obsessive fan of Frasier's, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, Boston Legal, Baby Bob, Monk and 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (2002). In 2007 he starred in the NBC drama Life in the role of Ted Earley. He played a white separatist leader named Ethan Zobelle during the second season of the FX series Sons of Anarchy reuniting with former 8 Simple Rules cast mate Katey Sagal. In 2011, he appeared in The Closer episode "To Serve With Love" (Season 7) as a suspect named Steven Hirschbaum. He also portrayed mob boss Theo Tonin on Justified in 2011, and an FBI agent in The Chicago Code, also in 2011.

Arkin's film appearances include Hitch (2005) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). He has performed in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions, including both the South Coast Repertory world premiere and Broadway production of Brooklyn Boy by playwright Donald Margulies. In addition he is known for his directing work, having done episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Boston Legal, The Riches, Dirt, Ally McBeal, Sons of Anarchy, The Blacklist, Justified and Masters of Sex. He won an Emmy for directing the Showtime television film My Louisiana Sky. In April 2008, Arkin guest-starred in the Web series Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show. He played the part of a divorce lawyer in the film A Serious Man (2009), directed by Ethan and Joel Coen.

Arkin also played a minor role in the NPR radio drama of Star Wars, A New Hope as the voice of Fixer. For PBS, he voiced Meriwether Lewis in Ken Burns' The Voyage of the Corps of Discovery (1997). He also provided character voice work for the Emmy-winning series The National Parks.

He has directed three episodes of the 2013 Cold War television drama, The Americans and the final episode of the second season (2014) of Masters of Sex.

Personal life

He has a daughter, Molly, with his first wife Linda. He was married to Phyllis Anne Arkin (née Lyons) (1999-2013), and they had one son together. Phyllis filed for divorce in August 2013. Arkin is from a Jewish family.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	The Monitors	Boy in Monitors Commercial
1969	People Soup	Adam	Short film
1971	Made for Each Other	Teenage Gig
1974	Moe and Joe	Ralph	Television film
1974	It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy	Ken Walters	Television film
1975	All Together Now	Jerry	Television film
1976	Baby Blue Marine	Rupe
1979	Tom Edison: The Boy Who Lit Up the World	Cole Bogardis	Television film
1981	Under the Rainbow	Henry Hudson
1981	Chu Chu and the Philly Flash	Charlie
1981	Full Moon High	Tony
1985	The Fourth Wise Man	Joseph	Television film
1987	Personal Foul	Jeremy
1988	Necessary Parties	Mr. Dunfee	Television film
1990	Heat Wave	Art Berman	Television film
1990	Babies	David	Television film
1990	A Promise to Keep	Louis Colt	Television film
1991	The Doctor	Dr. Eli Blumfield
1993	Wrestling Ernest Hemingway	Bookstore Manager	Uncredited
1995	In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice	Agent Gabriel Valentino	Television film
1997	Not in This Town	Brian Schnitzer	Television film
1998	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	Will Brennan	Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor - Horror
1998	With Friends Like These...	Steve Hersh
1998	Thirst	Bob Miller	Television film
1999	Lake Placid	Kevin	Uncredited
1999	A Slight Case of Murder	Detective Fred Stapelli	Television film
2000	Dropping Out	Scott Kayle
2000	Hanging Up	Joe Marks
2000	East of A	Sylvester
2001	Mission	Vissarion Belinsky
2001	Off Season	Richard Frangello	Television film
2002	Roughing It	Henry	Television film
2002	Stark Raving Mad	Don Partridge	Uncredited
2005	Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School	Gabe Difranco
2005	Hitch	Max
2005	Chloe	The Father	Short film
2005	Kids in America	Ed Mumsford
2006	Murder on Pleasant Drive	John David Smith	Television film
2007	Graduation	Dean Deeley
2009	Just Peck	Michael Peck
2009	A Serious Man	Divorce Lawyer	Nominated—Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cast
2010	Tell Tale	Husband	Short film
2010	Who Gets the Parents	Gene	Television film
2011	Summer Eleven	Ron
2011	Smothered	Alan	Television film
2012	The Sessions	Josh
2013	In Security	Broomhall
2014	10 Cent Pistol	Nir Zir

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	Happy Days	Bo	Episode: "Fonzy Joins the Band"
1975	We'll Get By	Richard	Episode: "Family Portrait"
1975	Barney Miller	Howard Smith	Episode: "Grand Hotel"
1975	Harry O	Eric Kershaw	Episode: "Portrait of a Murder"
1975	Hawaii Five-O	Alex Scofield	Episode: "A Touch of Guilt"
1976	Visions	Bernie Heller	Episode: "The Great Cherub Knitwear Strike"
1977	Busting Loose	Lenny Markowitz	21 episodes
1978	The Love Boat	Alex Lambert	Episode: "Heads or Tails"
1978	Captain Kangaroo	Genie of the Banana	Episode: "10 January 1978"
1978	Pearl	Pvt. Billy Zylowski	3 episodes
1982	Teachers Only	Michael Dreyfuss	8 episodes
1982	The Love Boat	Jonathan Stevens	Episode: "Salvaged Romance"
1985	St. Elsewhere	Doug Zageck	Episode: "Fathers and Sons"
1986-87	L.A. Law	Richard Kendall	2 episodes
1986	The Twilight Zone	Michael Wright	Episode: "A Matter of Minutes"
1986	All Is Forgiven	Phil Douglas	Episode: "Past Perfect"
1986	Tough Cookies	Danny Polchek	6 episodes
1986	A Year in the Life	Jim Eisenberg	3 episodes
1987-88	A Year in the Life	Jim Eisenberg	22 episodes
1989	Hard Time on Planet Earth	Harry Newcomb	Episode: "Losing Control"
1989	MacGyver	Tony Parisio	Episode: "The Invisible Killer"
1989-90	Knots Landing	Mark Baylor	6 episodes
1990-95	Northern Exposure	Adam	10 episodes Viewers for Quality Television Award for Best Specialty Player Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
1991	China Beach	Joe Arneburg	3 episodes
1991	Nurses	Peter Teller	Episode: "Love, Death, and the Whole Damn Thing"
1992	Law & Order	George Costas	Episode: "Self Defense"
1993	Tribeca	Bob	Episode: "Stepping Back"
1993	Big Wave Dave's	Marshall Fisher	6 episodes
1994	Picket Fences	Attorney Robert Biel	2 episodes
1994-2000	Chicago Hope	Dr. Aaron Shutt	138 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
1996	Picket Fences	Edward	Episode: "The Z Files"
1997	MADTv	Host	Episode: "2.19"
1997	Perversions of Science	Paul Danko	Episode: "Dream of Doom"
2000-02	The West Wing	Dr. Stanley Keyworth	4 episodes
2001	The Chris Isaak Show	Jimmy Vane	Episode: "Hurricane"
2001	Frasier	Tom	Episode: "The Two Hundredth" Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
2002	Monk	Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck	Episode: "Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale"
2002-03	Baby Bob	Walter Spencer	14 episodes
2003	The Practice	Atty. Albert Ginsberg	Episode: "The Chosen"
2004-05	8 Simple Rules	Principal Ed Gibb	12 episodes
2005	Law & Order	Charlie Graham	Episode: "Red Ball"
2006	Commander in Chief	Carl Brantley	2 episodes
2006	Boston Legal	A.D.A. Douglas Kupfer	3 episodes
2007-09	Life	Ted Earley	32 episodes
2009	Sons of Anarchy	Ethan Zobelle	11 episodes
2011	The Chicago Code	FBI Division Chief Cuyler	2 episodes
2011	The Closer	Steven Hirschbaum	Episode: "To Serve With Love"
2012	The Newsroom	Adam Roth	Episode: "The Blackout, Part 2: Mock Debate"
2012-14	Justified	Theo Tonin	3 episodes
2013	Family Tools	Mr. Baynor	Episode: "Pilot"
2014	Masters of Sex	Shep Tally	3 episodes
2014	The Bridge	Federal Investigator	3 episodes
2015	State of Affairs	Victor Gantry	6 episodes
2015	Fargo	Hamish Broker	3 episodes; also director (2 episodes)
2016	How To Get Away With Murder	Wallace Mahoney	4 episodes
2016	The Carmichael Show	Grant	Episode: "Maxine's Dad"

[ Source: Wikipedia ]