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.
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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.
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Known for
Between Riverside and Crazy
Essentials
The Reunion
Our Father
The Mimic
Paint
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
The Sound of Silence
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Olympia
New Amsterdam
7 Splinters in Time
Alex, Inc.
The Good Fight
Finding Dory
Starring Austin Pendleton
Billions
She's Funny That Way
The Mend
Hairbrained
Black Box
Game Change
Person of Interest
Cupid
5-25-77
Life on Mars
Theater of War
Raising Flagg
Dirty Work
Edge of Outside
The Notorious Bettie Page
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
Christmas with the Kranks
Piccadilly Jim
Strip Search
Joan of Arcadia
Uptown Girls
Finding Nemo
Wishcraft
Manna from Heaven
Angela
A Beautiful Mind
Sounds from a Town I Love
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Queenie in Love
Fast Food Fast Women
The Acting Class
Homicide: The Movie
Broke Even
The West Wing
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The 4th Floor
Men of Means
Joe the King
Sue
Amistad
Liberty!
River Made to Drown In
Oz
Trial and Error
Fired Up
The Practice
The Fumbleheads
The Mirror Has Two Faces
The Associate
2 Days in the Valley
The Proprietor
Sgt. Bilko
Two Much
Home for the Holidays
New York News
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
Don't Drink the Water
The World of Jim Henson
Touched by an Angel
Guarding Tess
Greedy
Frasier
Searching for Bobby Fischer
My Boyfriend's Back
Mr. Nanny
Homicide: Life on the Street
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
My Cousin Vinny
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Tales from the Crypt
Hello Again
21 Jump Street
Short Circuit
Off Beat
My Man Adam
The Equalizer
The Cosby Show
Miami Vice
Talk to Me
Alice in Wonderland
St. Elsewhere
First Family
Simon
Starting Over
The Muppet Movie
The Great Smokey Roadblock
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
Diary of the Dead
The Front Page
Good Times
June Moon
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Every Little Crook and Nanny
What's Up, Doc?
Great Performances
Catch-22
Love, American Style
Skidoo
Petulia
The Dick Cavett Show