Austin Pendleton

ActorDirector Mar 27 (age 86) Warren, Ohio, USA 1956–2025 (69 year career)

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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 Awar…

Known For

Film

Finding Nemo

Gurgle (voice)

Film

A Beautiful Mind

Thomas King

Film

Finding Dory

Gurgle (voice)

Film

My Cousin Vinny

John Gibbons

Film

Amistad

Professor Gibbs

Film

Short Circuit

Howard Marner

Film

Uptown Girls

Mr. McConkey

Film

The Muppet Movie

Max

Filmography

Acting (132)

Movies (97)

The Pitchfork Retreat

2025

as Dr. Nacht

Magic Hour

2025

as Joseph

The Reunion

2022

2.8

Essentials

2022

as Max

Our Father

as Jerry

The Mimic

as The Driver

Paint

as Professor Jacob Winston

4.7

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

as Self

The Sound of Silence

as Robert Feinway

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

as Self

Olympia

as Himself

Sunset

as Julian

7 Splinters in Time

as Fyodor Wax

Finding Dory

as Gurgle (voice)

Starring Austin Pendleton

as Self

She's Funny That Way

as Judge Pendergast

The Mend

as Earl

Black Box

as William Peters

Hairbrained

2013

as Dapper Man

5.4

Game Change

2012

as Senator Joe Lieberman

6.9

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

as Dr. Masters

5-25-77

as Herb Lightman

Theater of War

as Self

The Notorious Bettie Page

as Teacher

Dirty Work

as Julian

Raising Flagg

as Gus Falk

Edge of Outside

as Self

The Civilization of Maxwell Bright

2005

as Jaurice

4.1

Christmas with the Kranks

2004

as Umbrella Santa / Marty

Strip Search

as James Perley

Piccadilly Jim

as Peter Pett

Finding Nemo

as Gurgle (voice)

Uptown Girls

as Mr. McConkey

Sick in the Head

Wishcraft

as Mr. Turner

Angela

Manna from Heaven

as Two-Digit Doyle

A Beautiful Mind

2001

as Thomas King

7.9

The Concert for New York City

2001

as Austin Pendleton film buff

4.8

Sounds from a Town I Love

as film buff

Queenie in Love

as Alvin

Homicide: The Movie

as George Griscom

The Acting Class

as Bobby Austin

Fast Food Fast Women

as George

Broke Even

as Archie

The 4th Floor

as Albert Collins

Joe the King

as Winston

Men of Means

as Jerry Trask

Sue

as Bob

Amistad

as Professor Gibbs

The Fumbleheads

as Eugene Cleft

Trial and Error

as Judge Paul Z. Graff

5.4

River Made to Drown In

as Billy

Sgt. Bilko

as MAJ Ebersole

The Associate

as Aesop Franklin

2 Days in the Valley

as Ralph Crupi

The Mirror Has Two Faces

as Barry

The Proprietor

as Willy Kunst

The Fifteen Minute Hamlet

as Hamlet

Two Much

as Dr. Huffeyer

Home for the Holidays

as Peter Arnold

Greedy

as Hotel Clerk

Guarding Tess

as Earl

The World of Jim Henson

1994

as Max (archive footage)

7.3

Don't Drink the Water

as Chef Oscar

Mr. Nanny

as Alex Mason, Sr.

Searching for Bobby Fischer

as Asa Hoffman

My Boyfriend's Back

as Dr. Bronson

Rain Without Thunder

as Catholic Priest

My Cousin Vinny

as John Gibbons

Four Eyes and Six-Guns

1992

as Moustached Passenger

2.0

Charlie's Ear

1992

as Harold Blodgett

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

as Lawyer Taylor

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

as Mr. Gadbury

Hello Again

as Junior Lacey

Short Circuit

as Howard Marner

Off Beat

as Gun Shop Salesman

My Man Adam

as Mr. Greenhut

Talk to Me

as Richard Patterson

Alice in Wonderland

1983

as White Rabbit

6.8

First Family

1980

as Dr. Alexander Grade

Simon

as Dr. Carl Becker

The Muppet Movie

as Max

Starting Over

as Paul

The Great Smokey Roadblock

as Guido

Diary of the Dead

as Dr. Klein

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

1976

as Fancy Car Man (uncredited)

The Front Page

as Earl Williams

June Moon

as Bennie

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

1973

as Zukovsky

6.9

Every Little Crook and Nanny

1972

as Luther

What's Up, Doc?

1972

as Frederick Larrabee

Catch-22

as Lt. Col. Moodus

Petulia

as Intern (uncredited)

5.9

Skidoo

1968

as Fred the Professor

4.7

When Robert Met Judith

as Robert

The Belt

Television (35)

New Amsterdam

as Eli Pembroke

Alex, Inc.

as Wesley Harman

The Good Fight

as Dr. Goat

Billions

as Goose Quill

Difficult People

as Director

Person of Interest

as Pilcher

Cupid

as Dr. Boyd

Life on Mars

as Dr. Goldman

Joan of Arcadia

as Dietrich Steinholz

7.3

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001

as John Manotti

7.6

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Horace Gorman

The West Wing

as Barry Haskell

The Practice

as Sam Feldberg

as William Giles

Liberty!

as Benjamin Rush

Fired Up

as Bobby H.

New York News

Touched by an Angel

as Mr. Piltdown

Frasier

as Dr. Dorfman

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993

as Dr. George Griscom

American Dreamer

Tales from the Crypt

as Orloff

21 Jump Street

as Mr. Trysla

Leg Work

as Harold Rodman

The Equalizer

as Jonah

Murder, She Wrote

as Barney Gunderson

Miami Vice

as Max Rogo

The Cosby Show

as Mr. Kensington

Masquerade

as Actor

St. Elsewhere

as Mr. Entertainment

Good Times

Great Performances

as Bennie

Love, American Style

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

Between Riverside and Crazy

2023

Director

Say Goodnight, Gracie

1983

Director