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Austin Pendleton
Known for: ActingAustin 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 56
Finding Nemo
+3
as Gurgle (voice) 
A Beautiful Mind
+5
as Thomas King 
Uptown Girls
+13
as Mr. McConkey 
The Muppet Movie
+3
as Max 
My Cousin Vinny
+9
as John Gibbons 
Christmas with the Kranks
+8
as Umbrella Santa / Marty 
Short Circuit
+4
as Howard Marner 
She's Funny That Way
+12
as Judge Pendergast 
Guarding Tess
+3
as Earl 
The Mirror Has Two Faces
+5
as Barry 
2 Days in the Valley
+4
as Ralph Crupi 
What's Up, Doc?
+6
as Frederick Larrabee 
Catch-22
+7
as Lt. Col. Moodus 
The Front Page
+3
as Earl Williams 
The Associate
+3
as Aesop Franklin 
Sgt. Bilko
+2
as Major Ebersole 
Greedy
+2
as Hotel Clerk 
Searching for Bobby Fischer
+5
as Asa Hoffman 
The Notorious Bettie Page
+4
as Teacher 
Starting Over
+3
as Paul 
The Sound of Silence
+7
as Robert Feinway 
Home for the Holidays
+6
as Peter Arnold 
Two Much
as Dr. Huffeyer 
Mr. Nanny
+5
as Alex Mason, Sr. 
My Boyfriend's Back
+4
as Dr. Bronson 
The 4th Floor
+13
as Albert Collins 
Hello Again
+2
as Junior Lacey 
Joe the King
+3
as Winston 
Petulia
+2
as Intern (uncredited) 
Game Change
+4
as Senator Joe Lieberman 
Don't Drink the Water
as Chef Oscar 
Wishcraft
+3
as Mr. Turner 
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
+13
as Self 
7 Splinters in Time
+7
as Fyodor Wax 
True Identity
+2
as Director of Othello 
Trial and Error
as Judge Paul Z. Graff 
Hairbrained
+6
as Dapper Man 
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
as Hamlet 
River Made to Drown In
as Billy 
Strip Search
+3
as James Perley 
The Great Smokey Roadblock
+4
as Guido 
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
+4
as Mr. Gadbury 
Starring Austin Pendleton
as Self 
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
+6
as Lawyer Taylor 
Sue
as Bob 
The Mimic
+6
as The Driver 
The Proprietor
+6
as Willy Kunst 
5-25-77
+10
as Herb Lightman 
Our Father
+13
as Jerry 
Simon
+2
as Dr. Carl Becker 
Paint
+6
as Professor Jacob Winston 
First Family
+2
as Dr. Alexander Grade 
Rain Without Thunder
+3
as Catholic Priest 
Sunset
+9
as Julian 
Men of Means
+1
as Jerry Trask