Adam Arkin

Adam Arkin is an American actor born in Brooklyn, New York on August 19th, 1956. His first major role in a horror film was playing Tony Walker, a young werewolf who attempts to relive the glory days of high school in Larry Cohen's 1981 comedy Full Moon High. In 1998, Arkin played the role of pedagogue Will Brennan, love-interest to Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Myers victim in Steve Miner's Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later. The following year, Arkin made a brief appearance in another Steve Miner film, the comedic crocodile movie Lake Placid.

Notes & Trivia

 * Adam Arkin is the son of venerable actor Alan Arkin. Adam and Alan both appeared in Full Moon High together.


 * Archival footage of Arkin's Will Brennan from Halloween H20 was edited into the 2002 sequel Halloween: Resurrection.


 * In both Halloween H20 and Lake Placid, Arkin's characters are romantically attached to actresses who hail from famous families. In Halloween, his love interest is Jamie Lee Curtis, the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. In Lake Placid, his romantic-interest is Bridget Fonda, daughter of actor Peter Fonda and granddaughter of actor Henry Fonda.