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