Austin Pendleton

Austin Pendleton

Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor. Pendleton is known as a prolific character actor on the stage and screen, whose six-decade career has included roles in films including Catch-22 (1970); What's Up, Doc? (1972); The Front Page (1974); The Muppet Movie (1979), Short Circuit (1986); Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990); My Cousin Vinny (1992); Amistad (1997); A Beautiful Mind (2001), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination; and Finding Nemo (2003). Pendleton received a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play for the Broadway revival of The Little Foxes in 1981. He has received two Drama Desk Award nominations and the recipient of a Special Drama Desk Award in 2007. He also received a Obie Award for Best Director for the 2011 off-Broadway revival of Three Sisters. Recent Broadway credits include Choir Boy in 2016 and The Minutes in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Pendleton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Warren, Ohio, USA, 1940-03-27

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	Skidoo	Fred the Professor	48
2	1972	What's Up, Doc?	Frederick Larrabee	74
3	1972	Every Little Crook and Nanny	Luther	0
4	1973	The Thief Who Came to Dinner	Zukovsky	69
5	1974	The Front Page	Earl Williams	73
6	1978	The Great Smokey Roadblock	Guido	59
7	1979	The Muppet Movie	Max	72
8	1979	Starting Over	Paul	64
9	1980	Simon	Dr. Carl Becker	62
10	1980	First Family	Dr. Alexander Grade	30
11	1983	Alice in Wonderland	White Rabbit	68
12	1986	Off Beat	Gun Shop Salesman	47
13	1986	Short Circuit	Howard Marner	66
14	1987	Hello Again	Junior Lacey	58
15	1990	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge	Mr. Gadbury	60
16	1991	The Ballad of the Sad Cafe	Lawyer Taylor	57
17	1992	My Cousin Vinny	John Gibbons	75
18	1992	Four Eyes and Six-Guns		25
19	1993	Mr. Nanny	Alex Mason, Sr.	51
20	1994	Guarding Tess	Earl	60
21	1994	Don't Drink the Water	Chef Oscar	55
22	1995	Two Much	Dr. Huffeyer	54
23	1996	The Proprietor	Willy Kunst	0
24	1996	2 Days in the Valley	Ralph Crupi	62
25	1996	The Associate	Aesop Franklin	63
26	1997	Trial and Error	Judge Paul Z. Graff	54
27	1997	River Made to Drown In	Billy	50
28	1999	Joe the King	Winston	60
29	1999	Men of Means	Jerry Trask	0
30	1999	The 4th Floor	Albert Collins	57
31	2000	Homicide: The Movie	George Griscom	68
32	2001	A Beautiful Mind	Thomas King	79
33	2002	Angela		52
34	2002	Wishcraft	Mr. Turner	49
35	2003	Finding Nemo	Gurgle (voice)	78
36	2003	Uptown Girls	Mr. McConkey	69
37	2004	Christmas with the Kranks	Umbrella Santa / Marty	61
38	2006	Edge of Outside	Self	58
39	2006	Dirty Work	Julian	33
40	2006	Raising Flagg	Gus Falk	42
41	2008	5-25-77	Herb Lightman	58
42	2013	Black Box	William Peters	0
43	2013	Hairbrained	Dapper Man	54
44	2014	The Mend	Earl	49
45	2022	The Reunion		28
46	2022	Essentials	Max	0
47		The Pitchfork Retreat	Dr. Nacht	0
48	1968	Petulia	Intern (uncredited)	59
49	1970	Catch-22	Lt. Col. Moodus	67
50	1974	June Moon	Bennie	0
51	1976	Diary of the Dead	Dr. Klein	70
52	1976	The Great Texas Dynamite Chase	Fancy Car Man (uncredited)	50
53	1984	Talk to Me	Richard Patterson	0
54	1985	My Man Adam	Mr. Greenhut	65
55	1993	Rain Without Thunder	Catholic Priest	35
56	1993	My Boyfriend's Back	Dr. Bronson	57
57	1993	Searching for Bobby Fischer	Asa Hoffman	71
58	1994	Greedy	Hotel Clerk	62
59	1994	The World of Jim Henson	Max (archive footage)	73
60	1995	The Fifteen Minute Hamlet	Hamlet	72
61	1995	Home for the Holidays	Peter Arnold	63
62	1996	Sgt. Bilko	MAJ Ebersole	58
63	1996	The Mirror Has Two Faces	Barry	67
64	1997	The Fumbleheads	Eugene Cleft	30
65	1997	Amistad	Professor Gibbs	70
66	1998	Sue	Bob	68
67	2000	Broke Even	Archie	28
68	2000	The Acting Class	Bobby Austin	55
69	2000	Fast Food Fast Women	George	63
70	2001	Queenie in Love	Alvin	59
71	2001	Sounds from a Town I Love	film buff	56
72	2001	The Concert for New York City	Austin Pendleton film buff	48
73	2002	Manna from Heaven	Two-Digit Doyle	0
74	2003	Sick in the Head		0
75	2004	Strip Search	James Perley	62
76	2004	Piccadilly Jim	Peter Pett	65
77	2005	The Civilization of Maxwell Bright	Jaurice	44
78	2005	The Notorious Bettie Page	Teacher	63
79	2008	Theater of War	Self	62
80	2010	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps	Dr. Masters	61
81	2012	Game Change	Senator Joe Lieberman	69
82	2015	She's Funny That Way	Judge Pendergast	60
83	2016	Starring Austin Pendleton	Self	67
84	2016	Finding Dory	Gurgle (voice)	70
85	2018	Sunset	Julian	75
86	2018	7 Splinters in Time	Fyodor Wax	45
87	2018	Olympia	Himself	80
88	2019	Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles	Himself	65
89	2019	The Sound of Silence	Robert Feinway	56
90	2019	Alan Pakula: Going for Truth	Self	65
91	2020	Paint	Professor Jacob Winston	47
92	2021	The Mimic	The Driver	41
93	2021	Our Father	Jerry	50
94	2025	Magic Hour	Joseph	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
2	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
3	1969	Love, American Style		61
4	1971	Great Performances	Bennie	53
5	1971	Great Performances	White Rabbit	53
6	1974	Good Times		80
7	1982	St. Elsewhere		55
8	1984	Miami Vice	Max Rogo	75
9	1984	The Cosby Show	Mr. Kensington	70
10	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Barney Gunderson	75
11	1985	The Equalizer	Jonah	72
12	1987	21 Jump Street	Mr. Trysla	72
13	1987	Leg Work	Harold Rodman	50
14	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Orloff	80
15	1990	American Dreamer		60
16	1993	Homicide: Life on the Street	Dr. George Griscom	80
17	1993	Frasier	Dr. Dorfman	77
18	1994	Touched by an Angel	Mr. Piltdown	72
19	1995	New York News		0
20	1997	The Practice	Sam Feldberg	77
21	1997	Fired Up	Bobby H.	80
22	1997	Oz	William Giles	80
23	1997	Liberty!	Benjamin Rush	78
24	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Horace Gorman	79
25	1999	The West Wing	Barry Haskell	83
26	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	John Manotti	76
27	2003	Joan of Arcadia		72
28	2008	Life on Mars	Dr. Goldman	65
29	2009	Cupid		59
30	2011	Person of Interest	Pilcher	81
31	2015	Difficult People	Director	62
32	2016	Billions		77
33	2017	The Good Fight	Dr. Goat	76
34	2018	Alex, Inc.	Wesley Harman	64
35	2018	New Amsterdam	Eli Pembroke	84

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