Austin Pendleton
Known for: Acting
Born: March 27, 1940
Place of birth: Warren, Ohio, USA
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.
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Filmography
101 movies · 35 TV shows, newest first
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The Belt
2026
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The Pitchfork Retreat
2025
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Magic Hour
2025
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Between Riverside and Crazy
2023
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Essentials
2022
2.8
The Reunion
2022
5.0
Our Father
2021
4.3
The Mimic
2021
4.7
Paint
2020
6.5
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
5.8
The Sound of Silence
2019
6.5
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
8.0
Olympia
2018
8.3
New Amsterdam
2018
4.4
7 Splinters in Time
2018
6.3
Sunset
2018
5.5
Wanderland
2018
6.3
Alex, Inc.
2018
7.6
The Good Fight
2017
7.0
Finding Dory
2016
6.7
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
7.8
Billions
2016
6.3
Difficult People
2015
5.9
She's Funny That Way
2015
4.9
The Mend
2014
5.4
Hairbrained
2013
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Black Box
2013
6.9
Game Change
2012
8.1
Person of Interest
2011
6.1
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010
6.0
Cupid
2009
6.1
5-25-77
2008
6.4
Life on Mars
2008
6.2
Theater of War
2008
5.0
Raising Flagg
2006
4.3
Dirty Work
2006
5.8
Edge of Outside
2006
6.3
The Notorious Bettie Page
2006
4.5
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
2005
6.2
Christmas with the Kranks
2004
6.6
Piccadilly Jim
2004
6.2
Strip Search
2004
7.3
Joan of Arcadia
2003
7.0
Uptown Girls
2003
7.8
Finding Nemo
200310.0
Sick in the Head
2003
5.2
Wishcraft
2002
10.0
Manna from Heaven
2002
5.9
Angela
2002
7.9
A Beautiful Mind
2001
5.6
Sounds from a Town I Love
2001
5.1
The Concert for New York City
2001
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
6.3
Queenie in Love
2001
6.3
Fast Food Fast Women
2000
6.0
The Acting Class
2000
6.9
Homicide: The Movie
2000
4.1
Broke Even
2000
8.3
The West Wing
1999
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
5.7
The 4th Floor
1999
7.0
Men of Means
1999
5.8
Joe the King
1999
6.8
Sue
1998
7.0
Amistad
1997
7.8
Liberty!
1997
5.4
River Made to Drown In
1997
8.0
Oz
1997
5.4
Trial and Error
1997
7.8
Fired Up
1997
7.6
The Practice
1997
5.5
The Fumbleheads
1997
6.7
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996
6.2
The Associate
1996
6.2
2 Days in the Valley
1996
7.0
The Proprietor
1996
5.9
Sgt. Bilko
1996
5.5
Two Much
1995
6.3
Home for the Holidays
1995
7.0
New York News
1995
7.2
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
1995
5.6
Don't Drink the Water
1994
7.4
The World of Jim Henson
1994
7.2
Touched by an Angel
1994
6.0
Guarding Tess
1994
6.2
Greedy
1994
7.7
Frasier
1993
7.1
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
5.7
My Boyfriend's Back
1993
5.1
Mr. Nanny
1993
4.3
Rain Without Thunder
1993
8.1
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
3.5
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992
7.0
Charlie's Ear
1992
7.5
My Cousin Vinny
1992
5.6
True Identity
1991
5.8
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
6.1
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990
5.3
American Dreamer
1990
8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989
5.7
Hello Again
1987
6.5
Leg Work
1987
7.3
21 Jump Street
1987
6.7
Short Circuit
1986
4.7
Off Beat
1986
6.8
My Man Adam
1985
7.1
The Equalizer
1985
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
7.0
The Cosby Show
1984
7.4
Miami Vice
1984
9.0
Talk to Me
1984
7.5
Masquerade
1983
6.8
Alice in Wonderland
1983
10.0
Say Goodnight, Gracie
1983
5.7
St. Elsewhere
1982
3.4
First Family
1980
6.3
Simon
1980
6.4
Starting Over
1979
7.2
The Muppet Movie
1979
5.7
The Great Smokey Roadblock
1978
4.9
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
1976
7.1
Diary of the Dead
1976
7.3
The Front Page
1974
8.0
Good Times
1974
9.0
June Moon
1974
7.0
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973
7.5
Every Little Crook and Nanny
1972
7.4
What's Up, Doc?
1972
6.1
Great Performances
1971
6.7
Catch-22
1970
6.2
Love, American Style
1969
4.7
Skidoo
1968
6.0
Petulia
1968
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
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Tony Awards
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When Robert Met Judith
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