Austin Pendleton
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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Acting (92 movies)
Finding Nemo
2003
A Beautiful Mind
2001
The Front Page
1974
Short Circuit
1986
River Made to Drown In
1997
My Cousin Vinny
1992
Don't Drink the Water
1994
The Muppet Movie
1979
The Associate
1996
Guarding Tess
1994
Homicide: The Movie
2000
What's Up, Doc?
1972
Wishcraft
2002
Skidoo
1968
2 Days in the Valley
1996
Essentials
2022
Christmas with the Kranks
2004
Hello Again
1987
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
Uptown Girls
2003
Two Much
1995
Raising Flagg
2006
Trial and Error
1997
The 4th Floor
1999
Mr. Nanny
1993
Off Beat
1986
Joe the King
1999
Starting Over
1979
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973
The Reunion
2022
Angela
2002
Every Little Crook and Nanny
1972
The Proprietor
1996
First Family
1980
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990
5-25-77
2008
Men of Means
1999
Black Box
2013
Hairbrained
2013
The Mend
2014
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
Dirty Work
2006
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992
Alice in Wonderland
1983
Edge of Outside
2006
Simon
1980
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
2005
Rain Without Thunder
1993
Theater of War
2008
Sgt. Bilko
1996
Manna from Heaven
2002
She's Funny That Way
2015
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
1976
Finding Dory
2016
Catch-22
1970
Greedy
1994
The Fumbleheads
1997
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
1995
Piccadilly Jim
2004
Queenie in Love
2001
My Man Adam
1985
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996
The Notorious Bettie Page
2005
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
Petulia
1968
7 Splinters in Time
2018
Olympia
2018
The Sound of Silence
2019
Talk to Me
1984
Fast Food Fast Women
2000
Amistad
1997
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
Diary of the Dead
1976
The World of Jim Henson
1994
My Boyfriend's Back
1993
Game Change
2012
June Moon
1974
Home for the Holidays
1995
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
Paint
2020
Strip Search
2004
Sue
1998
Our Father
2021
The Mimic
2021
Sounds from a Town I Love
2001
Broke Even
2000
The Acting Class
2000
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
Sunset
2018
The Concert for New York City
2001
Magic Hour
2025
Directing (2 movies)
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