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Austin Pendleton

Austin Pendleton

Highest Rated: 100% Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

Lowest Rated: 5% Christmas With the Kranks (2004)

Birthday: Mar 27, 1940

Birthplace: Warren, Ohio, USA

For over the past 30 years, the diminutive, stage-trained character actor, Austin Pendleton has been cast in film and TV roles that, in an earlier generation, might have been filled by such hand-wringing nervous Nellies as Edward Everett Horton or Franklin Pangborn. He worked at the Williamstown (MA) Theater Festival while attending Yale, then headed for New York after his 1961 graduation. Though hardly a leading man type, he quickly got work, making his off-Broadway debut in 1962's "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad."

Highest rated movies

100% 90% 5-25-77
100% 86% Searching for Bobby Fischer 89% 88% The Muppet Movie
89% 88% What's Up, Doc?
85% 87% My Cousin Vinny
82% 44% Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
81% 76% Catch-22
78% 50% The Mend

Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% 90% 5-25-77 Herb Lightman (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Reunion Al (Character) - 2022
42% 75% Our Father Unknown (Character) - 2021
60% 65% The Mimic Driver (Character) - 2020
64% 38% The Sound of Silence Robert Feinway (Character) $17.0K 2019
98% 98% Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles Self $547.5K 2019
84% 97% Olympia Self - 2018
90% 83% Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes Self $38.0K 2018
No Score Yet 42% 7 Splinters in Time Fyodor Wax (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sunset Julian (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Family Robinson Mr. Robinson (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Calumet Ira (Character) - 2014
78% 50% The Mend Earl (Character) - 2014
45% 35% She's Funny That Way Judge Pendergast (Character) $106.4K 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black Box William Peters (Character) - 2013
55% 44% Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Dr. Masters (Character) $52.5M 2010
No Score Yet 61% Lovely by Surprise Jackson (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 14% Dirty Work Julian Healy (Character) - 2006
23% 13% Raising Flagg Gus Falk (Character) - 2006
58% 51% The Notorious Bettie Page Teacher (Character) $1.4M 2006
No Score Yet 51% Piccadilly Jim Peter Pett (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 46% Strip Search James Perley (Character) - 2004
5% 39% Christmas With the Kranks Umbrella Santa/Marty (Character) $73.7M 2004
13% 61% Uptown Girls Mr. McConkey (Character) $36.9M 2003
99% 86% Finding Nemo Gurgle (Voice) - 2003
22% 53% Manna From Heaven Two Digit Doyle (Character) $505.7K 2001
74% 93% A Beautiful Mind Thomas King (Character) $170.7M 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Queenie in Love Unknown (Character) - 2001
47% 75% Fast Food, Fast Women George (Character) $193.5K 2000
No Score Yet 42% The 4th Floor Mr. Collins (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fumbleheads Eugene Cleft (Character) - 1999
68% 72% Joe the King Winston (Character) $59.0K 1999
No Score Yet 60% Men of Means Jerry Trask (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Charlie Hoboken Harry Cedars (Character) $927 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fanatics Eugene Cleft (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 84% Sue Bob (Character) $5.4K 1997
50% 30% Trial and Error Judge Paul Z. Graff (Character) $13.6M 1997
78% 79% Amistad Professor Gibbs (Character) - 1997
60% 54% 2 Days in the Valley Ralph Crupi (Character) $11.1M 1996
14% 35% Two Much Dr. Huffeyer (Character) $1.1M 1996
54% 71% The Mirror Has Two Faces Barry (Character) $41.3M 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Proprietor Willy Kunst (Character) $113.6K 1996
64% 72% Home for the Holidays Peter Arnold (Character) $17.0M 1995
57% 48% Guarding Tess Earl Fowler (Character) $26.2M 1994
100% 86% Searching for Bobby Fischer Asa Hoffman (Character) $7.9M 1993
13% 45% My Boyfriend's Back Dr. Bronson (Character) $3.2M 1993
6% 33% Mr. Nanny Alex Mason, Sr. (Character) $4.2M 1993
50% 64% Rain Without Thunder Catholic Priest (Character) $6.7K 1992
85% 87% My Cousin Vinny John Gibbons (Character) $50.9M 1992
No Score Yet 11% Four Eyes and Six-Guns Unknown (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Charlie's Ear Harold Blodgett (Character) - 1992
56% 62% The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Lawyer Taylor (Character) - 1991
82% 44% Mr. & Mrs. Bridge Mr. Gadbury (Character) $5.0M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet B.L. Stryker: Blind Chess Danny Lennox (Character) - 1989
10% 49% Hello Again Junior Lacey (Character) $20.3M 1987
62% 67% Short Circuit Howard Marner (Character) $39.0M 1986
No Score Yet 27% Off Beat Gun Shop Salesman (Character) $4.1M 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Talk to Me Richard Patterson (Character) - 1982
60% 69% Simon Dr. Carl Becker (Character) - 1980
20% 11% First Family Dr. Alexander Grade (Character) - 1980
89% 88% The Muppet Movie Max (Character) - 1979
75% 58% Starting Over Paul (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 15% The Great Smokey Roadblock Guido (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 45% Diary of the Dead Dr. Klein (Character) - 1976
58% 74% The Front Page Earl Williams (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 56% The Thief Who Came to Dinner Zukovsky (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Every Little Crook and Nanny Luther (Character) - 1972
89% 88% What's Up, Doc? Frederick Larrabee (Character) - 1972
81% 76% Catch-22 Lt. Col. Moodus (Character) - 1970

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 50% New Amsterdam Eli Pembroke (Guest Star) 2020
40% 77% Alex, Inc. Wesley Harman (Guest Star) 2018
96% 84% Difficult People Unknown (Guest Star) 2016
92% 78% Person of Interest Pilcher (Guest Star) 2011
43% No Score Yet Cupid Dr. Boyd (Guest Star) 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Life on Mars Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
96% 70% Joan of Arcadia Unknown (Guest Star) 2005
No Score Yet 72% Law & Order: Criminal Intent Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Horace Gorman (Guest Star) 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Touched by an Angel Unknown (Guest Star) 2002
93% 95% Oz William Giles (Guest Star) 1998-2002
81% 95% The West Wing Barry Haskell (Guest Star) 2000
17% No Score Yet Fired Up Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Practice Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
95% 94% Frasier Dr. Dorfman (Guest Star) 1997
82% 90% Tales From the Crypt Unknown (Character) 1995
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Barney Gunderson (Guest Star) 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet American Dreamer Unknown (Guest Star) 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Anything but Love Unknown (Guest Star) 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Equalizer Jonah (Guest Star) 1986-1987 1989
71% 88% Miami Vice Max Rogo (Guest Star) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Good Times Donald Hargrove (Guest Star) 1974