Austin Pendleton
Born: 1940-03-27 in Warren, Ohio, USA
Known For: Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Pendleton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Magic Hour as Joseph
2023
- Between Riverside and Crazy ... (Director)
2022
- The Reunion
- Essentials as Max
2021
- Our Father as Jerry
- The Mimic as The Driver
2020
- Paint as Professor Jacob Winston
2019
- The Sound of Silence as Robert Feinway
- Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles as Self
- Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
2018
- New Amsterdam as Eli Pembroke
- Sunset as Julian
- Olympia as Himself
- Alex, Inc. as Wesley Harman
- 7 Splinters in Time as Fyodor Wax
2017
- The Good Fight as Dr. Goat
2016
- Billions
- Finding Dory as Gurgle (voice)
- Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
2015
- Difficult People as Director
- She's Funny That Way as Judge Pendergast
2014
- The Mend as Earl
2013
- Hairbrained as Dapper Man
- Black Box as William Peters
2012
- Game Change as Senator Joe Lieberman
2011
- Person of Interest as Pilcher
2010
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps as Dr. Masters
2009
- Cupid as Dr. Boyd
2008
- Life on Mars as Dr. Goldman
- Theater of War as Self
- 5-25-77 as Herb Lightman
2006
- Raising Flagg as Gus Falk
- Dirty Work as Julian
- Edge of Outside as Self
2005
- The Notorious Bettie Page as Teacher
- The Civilization of Maxwell Bright as Jaurice
2004
- Christmas with the Kranks as Umbrella Santa / Marty
- Piccadilly Jim as Peter Pett
- Strip Search as James Perley
2003
- Finding Nemo as Gurgle (voice)
- Joan of Arcadia as Dietrich Steinholz
- Uptown Girls as Mr. McConkey
- Sick in the Head
2002
- Wishcraft as Mr. Turner
- Manna from Heaven as Two-Digit Doyle
- Angela
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as John Manotti
- A Beautiful Mind as Thomas King
- The Concert for New York City as Austin Pendleton film buff
- Queenie in Love as Alvin
- Sounds from a Town I Love as film buff
2000
- Fast Food Fast Women as George
- Homicide: The Movie as George Griscom
- The Acting Class as Bobby Austin
- Broke Even as Archie
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Horace Gorman
- The West Wing as Barry Haskell
- Joe the King as Winston
- The 4th Floor as Albert Collins
- Men of Means as Jerry Trask
1998
- Sue as Bob
1997
- The Practice as Sam Feldberg
- Oz as William Giles
- The Fumbleheads as Eugene Cleft
- Trial and Error as Judge Paul Z. Graff
- River Made to Drown In as Billy
- Fired Up as Bobby H.
- Liberty! as Benjamin Rush
- Amistad as Professor Gibbs
1996
- The Associate as Aesop Franklin
- Sgt. Bilko as MAJ Ebersole
- The Mirror Has Two Faces as Barry
- 2 Days in the Valley as Ralph Crupi
- The Proprietor as Willy Kunst
1995
- Two Much as Dr. Huffeyer
- Home for the Holidays as Peter Arnold
- New York News
- The Fifteen Minute Hamlet as Hamlet
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Mr. Piltdown
- Guarding Tess as Earl
- Greedy as Hotel Clerk
- The World of Jim Henson as Max (archive footage)
- Don't Drink the Water as Chef Oscar
1993
- Frasier as Dr. Dorfman
- Homicide: Life on the Street as Dr. George Griscom
- Rain Without Thunder as Catholic Priest
- Mr. Nanny as Alex Mason, Sr.
- Searching for Bobby Fischer as Asa Hoffman
- My Boyfriend's Back as Dr. Bronson
1992
- My Cousin Vinny as John Gibbons
- Four Eyes and Six-Guns as Moustached Passenger
1991
- The Ballad of the Sad Cafe as Lawyer Taylor
1990
- Mr. & Mrs. Bridge as Mr. Gadbury
- American Dreamer
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as Orloff
1987
- 21 Jump Street as Mr. Trysla
- Hello Again as Junior Lacey
- Leg Work as Harold Rodman
1986
- Short Circuit as Howard Marner
- Off Beat as Gun Shop Salesman
1985
- The Equalizer as Jonah
- My Man Adam as Mr. Greenhut
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Barney Gunderson
- Miami Vice as Max Rogo
- The Cosby Show as Mr. Kensington
- Talk to Me as Richard Patterson
1983
- Alice in Wonderland as White Rabbit
- Say Goodnight, Gracie ... (Director)
1982
- St. Elsewhere as Mr. Entertainment
1980
- Simon as Dr. Carl Becker
- First Family as Dr. Alexander Grade
1979
- The Muppet Movie as Max
- Starting Over as Paul
1978
- The Great Smokey Roadblock as Guido
1976
- Diary of the Dead as Dr. Klein
- The Great Texas Dynamite Chase as Fancy Car Man (uncredited)
1974
- Good Times
- June Moon as Bennie
- The Front Page as Earl Williams
1973
- The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Zukovsky
1972
- What's Up, Doc? as Frederick Larrabee
- Every Little Crook and Nanny as Luther
1971
- Great Performances as Bennie
1970
- Catch-22 as Lt. Col. Moodus
1969
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Skidoo as Fred the Professor
- Petulia as Intern (uncredited)
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee