
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

Person of Interest
2011
as Pilcher

Frasier
1993
as Dr. Dorfman

The West Wing
1999
as Barry Haskell

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Barney Gunderson

Billions
2016
as Goose Quill

The Practice
1997
as Sam Feldberg

Miami Vice
1984
as Max Rogo

Great Performances
1971
as Bennie / White Rabbit

Love, American Style
1969

The Good Fight
2017
as Dr. Goat

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee

New Amsterdam
2018
as Eli Pembroke

The Cosby Show
1984
as Mr. Kensington

21 Jump Street
1987
as Mr. Trysla

Oz
1997
as William Giles

The Equalizer
1985
as Jonah

Touched by an Angel
1994
as Mr. Piltdown

Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
as Dr. George Griscom

St. Elsewhere
1982
as Mr. Entertainment

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest

Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Orloff

Joan of Arcadia
2003
as Dietrich Steinholz

Good Times
1974

Life on Mars
2008
as Dr. Goldman

Difficult People
2015
as Director

Fired Up
1997
as Bobby H.

New York News
1995

Masquerade
1983
as Actor

Leg Work
1987
as Harold Rodman

Cupid
2009
as Dr. Boyd

American Dreamer
1990

Liberty!
1997
as Benjamin Rush

Alex, Inc.
2018
as Wesley Harman
Movies (99)

Finding Nemo
2003
as Gurgle (voice)

A Beautiful Mind
2001
as Thomas King

Finding Dory
2016
as Gurgle (voice)

Uptown Girls
2003
as Mr. McConkey

My Cousin Vinny
1992
as John Gibbons

Catch-22
1970
as Lt. Col. Moodus

Short Circuit
1986
as Howard Marner

The Muppet Movie
1979
as Max

Christmas with the Kranks
2004
as Umbrella Santa / Marty

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
as Dr. Masters

The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996
as Barry

Guarding Tess
1994
as Earl

Greedy
1994
as Hotel Clerk

Starting Over
1979
as Paul

Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
as Asa Hoffman

Olympia
2018
as Self

Sgt. Bilko
1996
as MAJ Ebersole

The Associate
1996
as Aesop Franklin

2 Days in the Valley
1996
as Ralph Crupi

Piccadilly Jim
2004
as Peter Pett

The Notorious Bettie Page
2006
as Teacher

She's Funny That Way
2015
as Judge Pendergast

Petulia
1968
as Intern (uncredited)

Sue
1998
as Bob

The Concert for New York City
2001
as Austin Pendleton film buff

Game Change
2012
as Senator Joe Lieberman

The Mimic
2021
as The Driver

The Front Page
1974
as Earl Williams

Home for the Holidays
1995
as Peter Arnold

True Identity
1991
as Director of Othello

Paint
2020
as Professor Jacob Winston

What's Up, Doc?
1972
as Frederick Larrabee

Strip Search
2004
as James Perley

Off Beat
1986
as Gun Shop Salesman

Two Much
1995
as Dr. Huffeyer

Trial and Error
1997
as Judge Paul Z. Graff

Hello Again
1987
as Junior Lacey

Mr. Nanny
1993
as Alex Mason, Sr.

Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
as Self

Joe the King
1999
as Winston

Homicide: The Movie
2000
as George Griscom

Hairbrained
2013
as Dapper Man

My Boyfriend's Back
1993
as Dr. Bronson

Skidoo
1968
as Fred the Professor

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
1976
as Fancy Car Man (uncredited)

Manna from Heaven
2002
as Two-Digit Doyle

First Family
1980
as Dr. Alexander Grade

Don't Drink the Water
1994
as Chef Oscar

Amistad
1997
as Professor Gibbs

5-25-77
2008
as Herb Lightman

The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
as Guido

The Pitchfork Retreat
2025
as Dr. Nacht

Theater of War
2008
as Self

Queenie in Love
2001
as Alvin

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990
as Mr. Gadbury

Sounds from a Town I Love
2001
as film buff

The 4th Floor
1999
as Albert Collins

The Sound of Silence
2019
as Robert Feinway

Wishcraft
2002
as Mr. Turner

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
as Self

The Fumbleheads
1997
as Eugene Cleft

Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992
as Moustached Passenger

Broke Even
2000
as Archie

The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
2005
as Jaurice

June Moon
1974
as Bennie

River Made to Drown In
1997
as Billy

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
as Lawyer Taylor

The World of Jim Henson
1994
as Max (archive footage)

The Mend
2014
as Earl

The Acting Class
2000
as Bobby Austin

Rain Without Thunder
1993
as Catholic Priest

Simon
1980
as Dr. Carl Becker

Fast Food Fast Women
2000
as George

My Man Adam
1985
as Mr. Greenhut

7 Splinters in Time
2018
as Fyodor Wax

Edge of Outside
2006
as Self

Diary of the Dead
1976
as Dr. Klein

The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
1995
as Hamlet

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
as Self

Angela
2002

Men of Means
1999
as Jerry Trask

The Proprietor
1996
as Willy Kunst

Raising Flagg
2006
as Gus Falk
Sick in the Head
2003

Alice in Wonderland
1983
as White Rabbit

Wanderland
2018
as Raphael

The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973
as Zukovsky

Every Little Crook and Nanny
1972
as Luther

Talk to Me
1984
as Richard Patterson

Dirty Work
2006
as Julian

Our Father
2021
as Jerry

Black Box
2013
as William Peters

Magic Hour
2025
as Joseph

Essentials
2022
as Max

The Reunion
2022
When Robert Met Judith
as Robert

Sunset
2018
as Julian

Charlie's Ear
1992
as Harold Blodgett
The Belt
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 2025, 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)
- A Beautiful Mind (2001) — as Thomas King
- Finding Dory (2016) — as Gurgle (voice)
- Uptown Girls (2003) — as Mr. McConkey
- My Cousin Vinny (1992) — as John Gibbons
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