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CHICAGO — Every actor’s career follows its own serpentine route to a final bow. But only Alan Arkin’s career boasted an actual scene, from the 1979 comedy “The In-Laws,” of a dentist instructed by the newest and least reliable member of his extended family (Peter Falk) to “Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!”…

Award-winning stage and screen actor who exuded gravitas even in comedies such as Catch-22 and Little Miss Sunshine

Oscar winner Alan Arkin, whose background in improvisation and knack for comic drama were cornerstones of his extensive genre-hopping career that yielded enduring characters from the 1960s comedy “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” to “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Argo,” has died.

“I never knew that I could be funny until I joined Second City,” he once said. His many movies included “Catch-22,” “The In-Laws” and “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming”

Oscar winner Alan Arkin has died at age 89

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A hugely effective little shocker with teeth, and Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in the classic, Simon & Garfunkel-soundtracked comedy-drama