Austin Pendleton

Born: 1940-03-27, Warren, Ohio, USA

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.

Filmography

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
• Frasier (1993)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
• Person of Interest (2011)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Billions (2016)
• Great Performances (1971)
• Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)
• The Cosby Show (1984)
• The Good Fight (2017)
• Oz (1997)
• New Amsterdam (2018)
• St. Elsewhere (1982)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• Tales from the Crypt (1989)
• Touched by an Angel (1994)
• Joan of Arcadia (2003)
• Finding Dory (2016)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• Difficult People (2015)
• Uptown Girls (2003)
• My Cousin Vinny (1992)
• Short Circuit (1986)
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
• The Muppet Movie (1979)
• Fired Up (1997)
• Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
• Leg Work (1987)
• Sgt. Bilko (1996)
• Catch-22 (1970)