Editing Alan Arkin (section)

=== 1970–1985 ===
[[File:Alan Arkin - Kudirka - 1978.jpg|thumb|With [[Shirley Knight]] in the TV special ''The Defection of Simas Kudirka'' (1978)]]
In 1970, Arkin starred as [[Yossarian|Capt. John Yossarian]] in the [[Mike Nichols]] film ''[[Catch-22 (film)|Catch-22]]''. The film is a [[satirical]] [[black comedy]] [[war film]] adapted from the 1961 [[Catch-22|novel of the same name]] by [[Joseph Heller]]. Arkin co-starred alongside [[Bob Balaban]], [[Martin Balsam]], [[Buck Henry]], [[Bob Newhart]], [[Austin Pendleton]], [[Martin Sheen]], [[Jon Voight]], and [[Orson Welles]].<ref>{{Cite web|title="Catch-22." AFI Catalog.|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/23456|access-date=July 3, 2023}}</ref> Arkin received a [[Laurel Award]] nomination for his performance.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 21, 2023 |title=Jeremy Yaffe – Former Spouse Of Alan Arkin |url=https://gazetteday.com/jeremy-yaffe/ |access-date=July 4, 2023 |website=Gazette Day |language=en-US}}</ref> Arkin and his second wife Barbara Dana appeared together on the 1970–1971 season of ''[[Sesame Street]]'' as a comical couple named Larry and Phyllis who resolve their conflicts when they remember how to pronounce the word "cooperate".<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 1, 2023 |title=Alan Arkin & Sesame Street: The Late Actor's Heartwarming Muppet History Explained |url=https://www.looper.com/1328062/alan-arkin-sesame-street-muppet-history/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |website=Looper |language=en-US}}</ref>

He directed the [[black comedy]] film ''[[Little Murders]]'', released in 1971 and later became a [[cult classic]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |title=Little Murders movie review & film summary (1971)|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/little-murders-1971 |access-date=July 3, 2023 |website=rogerebert.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Peterson |first=Lewis |date=September 6, 2022 |title="Little Murders" comically skewers American cultural sickness |language=en-US |work=Tone Madison |url=https://tonemadison.com/articles/little-murders-comically-skewers-american-cultural-sickness/ |access-date=July 3, 2023}}</ref> Written by cartoonist [[Jules Feiffer]], it is a black comedy film starring [[Elliott Gould]] and [[Marcia Rodd]] about a girl, Patsy (Rodd), who brings home her boyfriend Alfred (Gould) to meet her dysfunctional family amid a series of random shootings, garbage strikes, and electrical outages ravaging the neighborhood. The film opened to a lukewarm review by [[Roger Greenspun]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/10/archives/little-murders-is-back-as-film-arkin-directed.html|title=' Little Murders' Is Back As Film Arkin Directed (Published 1971)|first=Roger|last=Greenspun|newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 10, 1971}}</ref> and a more positive one by [[Vincent Canby]]<ref>{{cite news | first = Vincent | last = Canby | author-link = Vincent Canby | title = What's So Funny? ''Murders'' | work = The New York Times | location = New York | page = D1 | date = February 21, 1971 | quote = ''Little Murders'' succeeds, at times triumphantly, and it does everything more or less backwards. }}</ref> in ''[[The New York Times]]''. [[Roger Ebert]]'s review in the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' was enthusiastic, stating "One of the reasons it works and is indeed a definitive reflection of America's darker moods is that it breaks audiences down into isolated individuals, vulnerable and uncertain."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19710101/REVIEWS/101010318/1023 |title=Roger Ebert's review |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date= January 1, 1971|access-date=March 28, 2013}}</ref> Arkin also directed ''[[Fire Sale (film)|Fire Sale]]'' (1977).<ref name="guardianobit" />

During the 1970s, Arkin starred in films of various genres including the [[Vernon Zimmerman]] [[buddy comedy|road comedy]] ''[[Deadhead Miles]]'' (1972), the [[Gene Saks]] adaptation of the [[Neil Simon]] [[Last of the Red Hot Lovers|play of the same name]] ''[[Last of the Red Hot Lovers (film)|Last of the Red Hot Lovers]]'' (1972) with [[Sally Kellerman]] and [[Paula Prentiss]], the [[black comedy]] action film [[Freebie and the Bean]] (1974), the [[comedy-drama|dramedy]] [[Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins]] (1975) with Kellerman and [[Mackenzie Phillips]], the 1978 TV prison film ''The Other Side of Hell'' (1978), the [[western film|western]] comedy [[Hearts of the West]] (1975),<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |date=June 7, 2011 |title=Hearts of the West – Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hearts_of_the_west |access-date=July 3, 2023 |website=www.rottentomatoes.com |language=en}}</ref> and the British mystery [[The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (film)|The Seven-Per-Cent Solution]] (1976).<ref name="indyobit">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/alan-arkin-death-tribute-b2367375.html|title=Alan Arkin was brilliant, difficult, spiritual and mysterious: 'He's always been underestimated'|first=Martin|last=Chilton|newspaper=The Independent |date=July 3, 2023}}</ref><ref name="varietyobit" /> In 1973, Arkin directed the [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]] production of [[Neil Simon]]'s ''[[The Sunshine Boys]]''. He received the [[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play]] nomination, losing to [[A. J. Antoon]] for ''[[That Championship Season]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.playbill.com/person/alan-arkin-vault-0000018062|title= Alan Arkin Director|website= Playbill|accessdate= June 29, 2022}}</ref>
In 1979, he starred in and co-produced the [[buddy comedy]] film ''[[The In-Laws (1979 film)|The In-Laws]]''. Arkin starred opposite [[Peter Falk]] in a film directed by [[Arthur Hiller]] and written by [[Andrew Bergman]].<ref>{{Cite web|title="The In-Laws." AFI Catalog.|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/56141|access-date=July 3, 2023}}</ref>

In 1980, Arkin starred in the [[Marshall Brickman]] comedy ''[[Simon (1980 film)|Simon]]'' which gained mixed reviews but earned him a [[Saturn Award]] nomination.<ref name="auto"/> The following year, he starred in three comedy films, ''[[Improper Channels]]'', ''[[Chu Chu and the Philly Flash]]'' opposite [[Carol Burnett]], and ''[[Full Moon High]]''.<ref name=":1" /> He also voiced the magician Schmendrick in the 1982 cult animated film ''[[The Last Unicorn (film)|The Last Unicorn]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7258-the-criterion-channels-february-2021-lineup|title=The Criterion Channel's February 2021 Lineup|website=The Criterion Collection}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=June 6, 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/188/mode/2up |page=188}}</ref> During the 1980s, Arkin appeared frequently in various television programs including ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' and ''[[St. Elsewhere]]''.<ref name="varietyobit" /> In 1985, Arkin starred in the television film ''[[The Fourth Wise Man]]'' starring [[Martin Sheen]] and [[Eileen Brennan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Fourth Wise Man – Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fourth_wise_man |access-date=July 3, 2023 |website=www.rottentomatoes.com |language=en}}</ref> He won Best Supporting Actor at the [[Genie Awards]] for his role as Reuben Shapiro in the 1985 [[Joshua Then and Now (film)|film adaption]] of [[Mordecai Richler]]'s semi-autobiographical novel ''[[Joshua Then and Now]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1986 Genie Awards – Film & Video Stock |url=https://www.efootage.com/videos/108393/1986-genie-awards |access-date=July 3, 2023 |website=eFootage |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Canadian Film Encyclopedia – Joshua Then and Now |url=https://cfe.tiff.net/canadianfilmencyclopedia/content/films/joshua-then-and-now |access-date=July 3, 2023 |website=cfe.tiff.net}}</ref>