Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) [2]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); Guarding Tess (1994); 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 starring Elizabeth Taylor. He received Obie and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Performance in The Last Sweet Days of Issac in 1970, and an additional Special Drama Desk Award for being a "Renaissance Man of the American Theatre" in 2007. He received an additional Obie Award for directing the Off-Broadway revival of Three Sisters in 2011.
Pendleton's recent Broadway credits include acting in Choir Boy in 2016 and The Minutes in 2022, and directing Between Riverside and Crazy, also in 2022.
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^Mayer, John (August 11, 2016). Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago: In Their Own Words. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4742-3947-9.
Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor. Pendleton is known as a prolific character...
Theatre with previews beginning January 16. The play was directed by AustinPendleton, with a cast that featured Stephen McKinley Henderson as Walter 'Pops'...
Nelson, Richard Hunt, and Dave Goelz, as well as Charles Durning and AustinPendleton, and it features cameo appearances by Dom DeLuise, James Coburn, Edgar...
Fred Gwynne as Judge Chamberlain Haller Lane Smith as Jim Trotter III AustinPendleton as John Gibbons Bruce McGill as Sheriff Dean Farley Maury Chaykin as...
Gummer, Denis O'Hare, and George Morfogen. The production, directed by AustinPendleton, began previews on January 17 and ended its limited run on March 1...
included her husband Peter Sarsgaard. The production, directed by AustinPendleton, began previews on January 17 and ended its limited run on March 1...
Shelton as Ingrid Donald Faison as Huey Jesse Spencer as Neal Fox AustinPendleton as Mr. McConkey Heather Locklear as Roma Schleine Pell James as Julie...
Anthony Justin 'AJ' James, Chuck Cooper as Headmaster Marrow, AustinPendleton as Mr. Pendleton, and Wallace Smith as Bobby Marrow. The show closed on August...
for their performances), Beatrice Arthur as Yente the matchmaker, AustinPendleton as Motel, Bert Convy as Perchik the student revolutionary, Gino Conforti...
Noah Fleiss, Val Kilmer, Karen Young, Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, AustinPendleton, Camryn Manheim, Max Ligosh, and James Costa. The film premiered at...
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