Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin has passed away at the age of 89

American actor Alan Arkin, who won an Academy Award for his role as a grandfather in the movie “Little Miss Sunshine”, died at the age of 89, according to what his family announced Friday.

Arkin passed away at his home in California, according to a statement issued by Adam, Matthew, and Anthony, the children of the actor, who used to take on supporting roles in American cinematic works, and stood out for his improvisational skills.

He reminded the three children that their father “was a very talented and talented artist.” “We will miss him very much,” they added.

Throughout his 70-year artistic career, Arkin has embodied a number of characters whose irony is concealed with apparent seriousness. One of his most famous roles was the belligerent, bombastic grandfather in “Little Miss Sunshine,” for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007.

He also starred as a gruff Hollywood producer capable of producing a fake CIA film in Ben Affleck’s Argo, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

Earlier in his career, he was also nominated for the Cold War satire The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) and the drama The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter) in 1968, in which he played the role of a deaf mute.

Not only was Erkin in cinema, but he was also a television and theater actor, and he participated in a work adapted from the novel “Catch 22” by Mike Nichols, and in “Edward Scissorhands” by Tim Burton and “Gataka”.
In recent years, the actor has also been nominated for several TV-equivalent Emmy Awards for the Oscars, for his performance in the Netflix series “The Kominsky Method,” where he portrayed Michael Douglas’ friend and agent.

Douglas wrote on Twitter, mourning Arkin, “Today we lost a wonderful actor whose intelligence, sense of comedy and integrated professionalism over the past seventy years left an indelible mark” in the field of acting. “My experiences working with Allen are unforgettable, and he will be greatly missed,” he added.

A number of other Hollywood actors also paid tribute to the late on social networks on Friday, including Mia Farrow, Michael Rappaport, and Patton Oswalt.