Austin Pendleton
Known For
Acting
Born
1940-03-27 in 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Pendleton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Horace Gorman
The West Wing
as Barry Haskell
Frasier
as Dr. Dorfman
Person of Interest
as Pilcher
Murder, She Wrote
as Barney Gunderson
Great Performances
as Bennie
Great Performances
as White Rabbit
Billions
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as John Manotti
Miami Vice
as Max Rogo
The Good Fight
as Dr. Goat
The Practice
as Sam Feldberg
The Cosby Show
as Mr. Kensington
Oz
as William Giles
New Amsterdam
as Eli Pembroke
St. Elsewhere
as Mr. Entertainment
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Dr. George Griscom
Tales from the Crypt
as Orloff
The Equalizer
as Jonah
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest