Austin Pendleton
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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
Credits
Finding Nemo (2003)
as Gurgle (voice)
Starting Over (1979)
as Paul
Finding Dory (2016)
as Gurgle (voice)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
as Thomas King
Uptown Girls (2003)
as Mr. McConkey
Short Circuit (1986)
as Howard Marner
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
as John Gibbons
The Muppet Movie (1979)
as Max
Catch-22 (1970)
as Lt. Col. Moodus
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
as Dr. Masters
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
as Umbrella Santa / Marty
My Man Adam (1985)
as Mr. Greenhut
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
as Asa Hoffman
Game Change (2012)
as Senator Joe Lieberman
2 Days in the Valley (1996)
as Ralph Crupi
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
as Frederick Larrabee
Guarding Tess (1994)
as Earl
Sgt. Bilko (1996)
as Major Ebersole
Joe the King (1999)
as Winston
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
as Barry
The Associate (1996)
as Aesop Franklin
Hello Again (1987)
as Junior Lacey
Petulia (1968)
as Intern (uncredited)
The Front Page (1974)
as Earl Williams
Greedy (1994)
as Hotel Clerk
The 4th Floor (1999)
as Albert Collins
Two Much (1995)
as Dr. Huffeyer
Mr. Nanny (1993)
as Alex Mason, Sr.
She's Funny That Way (2015)
as Judge Pendergast
Home for the Holidays (1995)
as Peter Arnold
Off Beat (1986)
as Gun Shop Salesman
The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)
as Teacher
Trial and Error (1997)
as Judge Paul Z. Graff
The Sound of Silence (2019)
as Robert Feinway
Homicide: The Movie (2000)
as George Griscom
The Concert for New York City (2001)
as Austin Pendleton film buff
Amistad (1997)
as Professor Gibbs
5-25-77 (2008)
as Herb Lightman
True Identity (1991)
as Director of Othello
The Mimic (2021)
as The Driver
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
as Mr. Gadbury
My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
as Dr. Bronson
Hairbrained (2013)
as Dapper Man
Strip Search (2004)
as James Perley
Wishcraft (2002)
as Mr. Turner
Piccadilly Jim (2004)
as Peter Pett
June Moon (1974)
as Bennie
Sue (1998)
as Bob
First Family (1980)
as Dr. Alexander Grade
Raising Flagg (2006)
as Gus Falk
Skidoo (1968)
as Fred the Professor
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (2019)
as Self
The World of Jim Henson (1994)
as Max (archive footage)
Olympia (2018)
as Self
Manna from Heaven (2002)
as Two-Digit Doyle
Broke Even (2000)
as Archie
Don't Drink the Water (1994)
as Chef Oscar
The Pitchfork Retreat (2025)
as Dr. Nacht
Dirty Work (2006)
as Julian
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright (2005)
as Jaurice
Alice in Wonderland (1983)
as White Rabbit
River Made to Drown In (1997)
as Billy
Simon (1980)
as Dr. Carl Becker
Paint (2020)
as Professor Jacob Winston
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
as Zukovsky
The Great Smokey Roadblock (1978)
as Guido
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)
as Fancy Car Man (uncredited)
Starring Austin Pendleton (2016)
as Self
Edge of Outside (2006)
as Self
Magic Hour (2025)
as Joseph
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
as Lawyer Taylor
Our Father (2021)
as Jerry
Talk to Me (1984)
as Richard Patterson
Wanderland (2018)
as Raphael
Fast Food Fast Women (2000)
as George
The Acting Class (2000)
as Bobby Austin
Four Eyes and Six-Guns (1992)
as Moustached Passenger
Angela (2002)
Actor
Diary of the Dead (1976)
as Dr. Klein
The Proprietor (1996)
as Willy Kunst
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (1995)
as Hamlet
The Mend (2014)
as Earl
The Fumbleheads (1997)
as Eugene Cleft
Sounds from a Town I Love (2001)
as film buff
Men of Means (1999)
as Jerry Trask
Theater of War (2008)
as Self
Queenie in Love (2001)
as Alvin
Sick in the Head (2003)
Actor
Rain Without Thunder (1993)
as Catholic Priest
7 Splinters in Time (2018)
as Fyodor Wax
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019)
as Self
Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972)
as Luther
Black Box (2013)
as William Peters
Sunset (2018)
as Julian
The Reunion (2022)
Actor
The Belt (2026)
Actor
Charlie's Ear (1992)
as Harold Blodgett
When Robert Met Judith (—)
as Robert
Essentials (2022)
as Max