Austin Pendleton
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(98 total)
Finding Nemo
as Gurgle (voice)
Finding Dory
as Gurgle (voice)
A Beautiful Mind
as Thomas King
My Cousin Vinny
as John Gibbons
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
as Dr. Masters
Short Circuit
as Howard Marner
Amistad
as Professor Gibbs
Christmas with the Kranks
as Umbrella Santa / Marty
Uptown Girls
as Mr. McConkey
She's Funny That Way
as Judge Pendergast
The Muppet Movie
as Max
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Asa Hoffman
What's Up, Doc?
as Frederick Larrabee
Sgt. Bilko
as MAJ Ebersole
The Front Page
as Earl Williams
The Mirror Has Two Faces
as Barry
Guarding Tess
as Earl
Catch-22
as Lt. Col. Moodus
Game Change
as Senator Joe Lieberman
2 Days in the Valley
as Ralph Crupi
TV Shows
(35 total)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Horace Gorman
Person of Interest
as Pilcher
New Amsterdam
as Eli Pembroke
Tales from the Crypt
as Orloff
Frasier
as Dr. Dorfman
Oz
as William Giles
The West Wing
as Barry Haskell
Miami Vice
as Max Rogo
The Cosby Show
as Mr. Kensington
Murder, She Wrote
as Barney Gunderson
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as John Manotti
The Good Fight
as Dr. Goat
21 Jump Street
as Mr. Trysla
Touched by an Angel
as Mr. Piltdown
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Dr. George Griscom
The Practice
as Sam Feldberg
Life on Mars
as Dr. Goldman
St. Elsewhere
as Mr. Entertainment
Joan of Arcadia
as Dietrich Steinholz