Austin Pendleton
Known for Acting · 134 credits
- Born
- 1940-03-27 (age 86)
- Place of birth
- Warren, Ohio, USA
Biography
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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Known For
TV Shows (35)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Horace Gorman
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as John Manotti
Frasier
1993
as Dr. Dorfman
The West Wing
1999
as Barry Haskell
Great Performances
1971
as Bennie / White Rabbit
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Barney Gunderson
Person of Interest
2011
as Pilcher
The Cosby Show
1984
as Mr. Kensington
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
Oz
1997
as William Giles
Miami Vice
1984
as Max Rogo
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
The Practice
1997
as Sam Feldberg
Love, American Style
1969
Billions
2016
as Goose Quill
21 Jump Street
1987
as Mr. Trysla
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Mr. Piltdown
The Good Fight
2017
as Dr. Goat
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Mr. Entertainment
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
as Dr. George Griscom
The Equalizer
1985
as Jonah
New Amsterdam
2018
as Eli Pembroke
Joan of Arcadia
2003
as Dietrich Steinholz
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Orloff
Good Times
1974
Difficult People
2015
as Director
Life on Mars
2008
as Dr. Goldman
New York News
1995
Fired Up
1997
as Bobby H.
Masquerade
1983
as Actor
Cupid
2009
as Dr. Boyd
Leg Work
1987
as Harold Rodman
Liberty!
1997
as Benjamin Rush
Alex, Inc.
2018
as Wesley Harman
American Dreamer
1990
Movies (99)
Finding Nemo
2003
as Gurgle (voice)
Finding Dory
2016
as Gurgle (voice)
A Beautiful Mind
2001
as Thomas King
Christmas with the Kranks
2004
as Umbrella Santa / Marty
Uptown Girls
2003
as Mr. McConkey
My Cousin Vinny
1992
as John Gibbons
Starting Over
1979
as Paul
Short Circuit
1986
as Howard Marner
Catch-22
1970
as Lt. Col. Moodus
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
as Dr. Masters
The Muppet Movie
1979
as Max
She's Funny That Way
2015
as Judge Pendergast
5-25-77
2008
as Herb Lightman
Hello Again
1987
as Junior Lacey
2 Days in the Valley
1996
as Ralph Crupi
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
as Asa Hoffman
Guarding Tess
1994
as Earl
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996
as Barry
Greedy
1994
as Hotel Clerk
What's Up, Doc?
1972
as Frederick Larrabee
Sgt. Bilko
1996
as Major Ebersole
The World of Jim Henson
1994
as Max (archive footage)
Petulia
1968
as Intern (uncredited)
Joe the King
1999
as Winston
The Notorious Bettie Page
2006
as Teacher
Mr. Nanny
1993
as Alex Mason, Sr.
The Front Page
1974
as Earl Williams
Sue
1998
as Bob
Game Change
2012
as Senator Joe Lieberman
The Associate
1996
as Aesop Franklin
Home for the Holidays
1995
as Peter Arnold
Broke Even
2000
as Archie
My Boyfriend's Back
1993
as Dr. Bronson
The 4th Floor
1999
as Albert Collins
Strip Search
2004
as James Perley
Don't Drink the Water
1994
as Chef Oscar
Manna from Heaven
2002
as Two-Digit Doyle
Angela
2002
The Concert for New York City
2001
as Austin Pendleton film buff
The Pitchfork Retreat
2025
as Dr. Nacht
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990
as Mr. Gadbury
The Sound of Silence
2019
as Robert Feinway
Two Much
1995
as Dr. Huffeyer
True Identity
1991
as Director of Othello
June Moon
1974
as Bennie
Trial and Error
1997
as Judge Paul Z. Graff
Olympia
2018
as Self
Wishcraft
2002
as Mr. Turner
Black Box
2013
as William Peters
Sunset
2018
as Julian
Theater of War
2008
as Self
Queenie in Love
2001
as Alvin
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
as Self
Hairbrained
2013
as Dapper Man
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973
as Zukovsky
River Made to Drown In
1997
as Billy
Edge of Outside
2006
as Self
Skidoo
1968
as Fred the Professor
Fast Food Fast Women
2000
as George
Rain Without Thunder
1993
as Catholic Priest
Piccadilly Jim
2004
as Peter Pett
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
1995
as Hamlet
First Family
1980
as Dr. Alexander Grade
The Acting Class
2000
as Bobby Austin
Homicide: The Movie
2000
as George Griscom
Diary of the Dead
1976
as Dr. Klein
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
as Guido
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
as Self
Essentials
2022
as Max
Talk to Me
1984
as Richard Patterson
Amistad
1997
as Professor Gibbs
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992
as Moustached Passenger
Simon
1980
as Dr. Carl Becker
Sick in the Head
2003
Charlie's Ear
1992
as Harold Blodgett
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
as Lawyer Taylor
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
1976
as Fancy Car Man (uncredited)
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
2005
as Jaurice
When Robert Met Judith
as Robert
The Fumbleheads
1997
as Eugene Cleft
The Mimic
2021
as The Driver
Raising Flagg
2006
as Gus Falk
Every Little Crook and Nanny
1972
as Luther
Men of Means
1999
as Jerry Trask
Paint
2020
as Professor Jacob Winston
Alice in Wonderland
1983
as White Rabbit
The Proprietor
1996
as Willy Kunst
7 Splinters in Time
2018
as Fyodor Wax
Off Beat
1986
as Gun Shop Salesman
Sounds from a Town I Love
2001
as film buff
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
as Self
My Man Adam
1985
as Mr. Greenhut
Dirty Work
2006
as Julian
The Reunion
2022
The Belt
2026
Our Father
2021
as Jerry
Magic Hour
2025
as Joseph
Wanderland
2018
as Raphael
The Mend
2014
as Earl
About 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 Motio… With 134 credits spanning from 1956 to 2026, Austin Pendleton has appeared in 99 films and 35 TV shows.
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Most Popular Austin Pendleton Movies
- Finding Nemo (2003) — as Gurgle (voice)
- Finding Dory (2016) — as Gurgle (voice)
- A Beautiful Mind (2001) — as Thomas King
- Christmas with the Kranks (2004) — as Umbrella Santa / Marty
- Uptown Girls (2003) — as Mr. McConkey
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