
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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Known For
Acting History
2025
Magic Hour as Joseph
2022Essentials as Max
2022The Reunion
2021Our Father as Jerry
2021The Mimic as The Driver
2020Paint as Professor Jacob Winston
2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
2019The Sound of Silence as Robert Feinway
2019Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles as Self
2018Olympia as Himself
2018New Amsterdam as Eli Pembroke
20187 Splinters in Time as Fyodor Wax
2018Sunset as Julian
2018Alex, Inc. as Wesley Harman
2017The Good Fight as Dr. Goat
2016Finding Dory as Gurgle (voice)
2016Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
2016Billions
2015Difficult People as Director
2015She's Funny That Way as Judge Pendergast
2014The Mend as Earl
2013Hairbrained as Dapper Man
2013Black Box as William Peters
2012Game Change as Senator Joe Lieberman
2011Person of Interest as Pilcher
2010Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps as Dr. Masters
2009Cupid as Dr. Boyd
20085-25-77 as Herb Lightman
2008Life on Mars as Dr. Goldman
2008Theater of War as Self
2006Raising Flagg as Gus Falk
2006Dirty Work as Julian
2006Edge of Outside as Self
2005The Notorious Bettie Page as Teacher
2005The Civilization of Maxwell Bright as Jaurice
2004Christmas with the Kranks as Umbrella Santa / Marty
2004Piccadilly Jim as Peter Pett
2004Strip Search as James Perley
2003Joan of Arcadia as Dietrich Steinholz
2003Uptown Girls as Mr. McConkey
2003Finding Nemo as Gurgle (voice)
2003Sick in the Head
2002Wishcraft as Mr. Turner
2002Manna from Heaven as Two-Digit Doyle
2002Angela
2001A Beautiful Mind as Thomas King
2001Sounds from a Town I Love as film buff
2001The Concert for New York City as Austin Pendleton film buff
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as John Manotti
2001Queenie in Love as Alvin
2000Fast Food Fast Women as George
2000The Acting Class as Bobby Austin
2000Homicide: The Movie as George Griscom
2000Broke Even as Archie
1999The West Wing as Barry Haskell
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Horace Gorman
1999The 4th Floor as Albert Collins
1999Men of Means as Jerry Trask
1999Joe the King as Winston
1998Sue as Bob
1997Amistad as Professor Gibbs
1997Liberty! as Benjamin Rush
1997River Made to Drown In as Billy
1997Oz as William Giles
1997Trial and Error as Judge Paul Z. Graff
1997Fired Up as Bobby H.
1997The Practice as Sam Feldberg
1997The Fumbleheads as Eugene Cleft
1996The Mirror Has Two Faces as Barry
1996The Associate as Aesop Franklin
19962 Days in the Valley as Ralph Crupi
1996The Proprietor as Willy Kunst
1996Sgt. Bilko as MAJ Ebersole
1995Two Much as Dr. Huffeyer
1995Home for the Holidays as Peter Arnold
1995New York News
1995The Fifteen Minute Hamlet as Hamlet
1994Don't Drink the Water as Chef Oscar
1994The World of Jim Henson as Max (archive footage)
1994Touched by an Angel as Mr. Piltdown
1994Guarding Tess as Earl
1994Greedy as Hotel Clerk
1993Frasier as Dr. Dorfman
1993Searching for Bobby Fischer as Asa Hoffman
1993My Boyfriend's Back as Dr. Bronson
1993Mr. Nanny as Alex Mason, Sr.
1993Rain Without Thunder as Catholic Priest
1993Homicide: Life on the Street as Dr. George Griscom
1992Four Eyes and Six-Guns as Moustached Passenger
1992My Cousin Vinny as John Gibbons
1991The Ballad of the Sad Cafe as Lawyer Taylor
1990Mr. & Mrs. Bridge as Mr. Gadbury
1990American Dreamer
1989Tales from the Crypt as Orloff
1987Hello Again as Junior Lacey
1987Leg Work as Harold Rodman
198721 Jump Street as Mr. Trysla
1986Short Circuit as Howard Marner
1986Off Beat as Gun Shop Salesman
1985My Man Adam as Mr. Greenhut
1985The Equalizer as Jonah
1984Murder, She Wrote as Barney Gunderson
1984The Cosby Show as Mr. Kensington
1984Miami Vice as Max Rogo
1984Talk to Me as Richard Patterson
1983Alice in Wonderland as White Rabbit
1982St. Elsewhere as Mr. Entertainment
1980First Family as Dr. Alexander Grade
1980Simon as Dr. Carl Becker
1979Starting Over as Paul
1979The Muppet Movie as Max
1978The Great Smokey Roadblock as Guido
1976The Great Texas Dynamite Chase as Fancy Car Man (uncredited)
1976Diary of the Dead as Dr. Klein
1974The Front Page as Earl Williams
1974Good Times
1974June Moon as Bennie
1973The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Zukovsky
1972Every Little Crook and Nanny as Luther
1972What's Up, Doc? as Frederick Larrabee
1971Great Performances as Bennie
1971Great Performances as White Rabbit
1970Catch-22 as Lt. Col. Moodus
1969Love, American Style
1968Skidoo as Fred the Professor
1968Petulia as Intern (uncredited)
1968The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1956Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
—The Pitchfork Retreat as Dr. Nacht
—When Robert Met Judith as Robert
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