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