RIP the funniest man in movie history, or one of them...Alan Arkin

[Eliot Rosewater]

There was simply no one like Alan Arkin, whether it's the spit take in "Big Trouble"

or every take in "The In-Laws" there was nobody better or funnier.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. IMO, Arkin's asset was understatement.

He knew how to hold back.

[Wounded Bear]

2. "Everybody to get from streets"

The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!

Certainly one of the funniest and best Cold War spoofs ever made.

[Mr.Bill]

6. I saw that movie when it first hit the theaters.

I've been a fan of him ever since.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. "Everybody to get from street" is the line that made me see the movie multiple times

after that first time in the theater when I was a boy.

[Clash City Rocker]

3. I also loved him as the psychiatrist in Grosse Point Blank

He played “the only sane man in the room” parts really, really well.

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Teenage student of Viola Spolin in Los Angeles.

[marble falls]

5. "Serpentine! Serpentine!" ...

... he's also the guy who made entire theater of collage students jump all as one in the scene where the refrigerator doors swings open to show him right behind Audrey Hepburn in "Wait Until Dark".

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

8. I jumped too.

I was in the Navy, saw the film with 2 shipmates. They laughed at me.

[Mr.Bill]

7. Slums of Beverly Hills is one of my favorites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slums_of_Beverly_Hills#:~:text=Vivian%27s%20younger%20brother%20Rickey%20simply,in%20gibberish%2C%20or%20Pig%20Latin.