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.

Filmography

• 2026The Belt
• 2025Magic Hour — Joseph
• 2025The Pitchfork Retreat — Dr. Nacht
• 2023Between Riverside and Crazy — Director
• 2022Essentials — Max
• 2022The Reunion
• 2021Our Father — Jerry
• 2021The Mimic — The Driver
• 2020Paint — Professor Jacob Winston
• 2019The Sound of Silence — Robert Feinway
• 20187 Splinters in Time — Fyodor Wax
• Alex, Inc. — Wesley Harman
• New Amsterdam — Eli Pembroke
• 2018Sunset — Julian
• 2018Wanderland — Raphael
• The Good Fight — Dr. Goat
• Billions — Goose Quill
• 2016Finding Dory — Gurgle (voice)
• Difficult People — Director
• 2015She's Funny That Way — Judge Pendergast
• 2014The Mend — Earl
• 2013Black Box — William Peters
• 2013Hairbrained — Dapper Man
• 2012Game Change — Senator Joe Lieberman
• Person of Interest — Pilcher
• 2010Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps — Dr. Masters
• Cupid — Dr. Boyd
• 20085-25-77 — Herb Lightman
• Life on Mars — Dr. Goldman
• 2006Dirty Work — Julian
• 2006Raising Flagg — Gus Falk
• 2006The Notorious Bettie Page — Teacher
• 2005The Civilization of Maxwell Bright — Jaurice
• 2004Christmas with the Kranks — Umbrella Santa / Marty
• 2004Piccadilly Jim — Peter Pett
• 2004Strip Search — James Perley
• 2003Finding Nemo — Gurgle (voice)
• Joan of Arcadia — Dietrich Steinholz
• 2003Sick in the Head
• 2003Uptown Girls — Mr. McConkey
• 2002Angela
• 2002Manna from Heaven — Two-Digit Doyle
• 2002Wishcraft — Mr. Turner
• 2001A Beautiful Mind — Thomas King
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — John Manotti
• 2001Queenie in Love — Alvin
• 2001Sounds from a Town I Love — film buff
• 2001The Concert for New York City — Austin Pendleton film buff
• 2000Broke Even — Archie
• 2000Fast Food Fast Women — George
• 2000Homicide: The Movie — George Griscom
• 2000The Acting Class — Bobby Austin
• 1999Joe the King — Winston
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Horace Gorman
• 1999Men of Means — Jerry Trask
• 1999The 4th Floor — Albert Collins
• The West Wing — Barry Haskell
• 1998Sue — Bob
• 1997Amistad — Professor Gibbs
• Fired Up — Bobby H.
• Liberty! — Benjamin Rush
• Oz — William Giles
• 1997River Made to Drown In — Billy
• 1997The Fumbleheads — Eugene Cleft
• The Practice — Sam Feldberg
• 1997Trial and Error — Judge Paul Z. Graff
• 19962 Days in the Valley — Ralph Crupi
• 1996Sgt. Bilko — Major Ebersole
• 1996The Associate — Aesop Franklin
• 1996The Mirror Has Two Faces — Barry
• 1996The Proprietor — Willy Kunst
• 1995Home for the Holidays — Peter Arnold
• New York News
• 1995The Fifteen Minute Hamlet — Hamlet
• 1995Two Much — Dr. Huffeyer
• 1994Don't Drink the Water — Chef Oscar
• 1994Greedy — Hotel Clerk
• 1994Guarding Tess — Earl
• 1994The World of Jim Henson — Max (archive footage)
• Touched by an Angel — Mr. Piltdown
• Frasier — Dr. Dorfman
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Dr. George Griscom
• 1993Mr. Nanny — Alex Mason, Sr.
• 1993My Boyfriend's Back — Dr. Bronson
• 1993Rain Without Thunder — Catholic Priest
• 1993Searching for Bobby Fischer — Asa Hoffman
• 1992Charlie's Ear — Harold Blodgett
• 1992Four Eyes and Six-Guns — Moustached Passenger
• 1992My Cousin Vinny — John Gibbons
• 1991The Ballad of the Sad Cafe — Lawyer Taylor
• 1991True Identity — Director of Othello
• American Dreamer
• 1990Mr. & Mrs. Bridge — Mr. Gadbury
• Tales from the Crypt — Orloff
• 21 Jump Street — Mr. Trysla
• 1987Hello Again — Junior Lacey
• Leg Work — Harold Rodman
• 1986Off Beat — Gun Shop Salesman
• 1986Short Circuit — Howard Marner
• 1985My Man Adam — Mr. Greenhut
• The Equalizer — Jonah
• Miami Vice — Max Rogo
• Murder, She Wrote — Barney Gunderson
• 1984Talk to Me — Richard Patterson
• The Cosby Show — Mr. Kensington
• 1983Alice in Wonderland — White Rabbit
• Masquerade — Actor
• 1983Say Goodnight, Gracie — Director
• St. Elsewhere — Mr. Entertainment
• 1980First Family — Dr. Alexander Grade
• 1980Simon — Dr. Carl Becker
• 1979Starting Over — Paul
• 1979The Muppet Movie — Max
• 1978The Great Smokey Roadblock — Guido
• 1976Diary of the Dead — Dr. Klein
• 1976The Great Texas Dynamite Chase — Fancy Car Man (uncredited)
• Good Times
• 1974June Moon — Bennie
• 1974The Front Page — Earl Williams
• 1973The Thief Who Came to Dinner — Zukovsky
• 1972Every Little Crook and Nanny — Luther
• 1972What's Up, Doc? — Frederick Larrabee
• Great Performances — Bennie, White Rabbit
• 1970Catch-22 — Lt. Col. Moodus
• Love, American Style
• 1968Petulia — Intern (uncredited)
• 1968Skidoo — Fred the Professor
• When Robert Met Judith — Robert

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth — Self
• 2019Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles — Self
• 2018Olympia — Self
• 2016Starring Austin Pendleton — Self
• 2008Theater of War — Self
• 2006Edge of Outside — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee