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Austin Pendleton

Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton
Born: Mar 27, 1940 in Warren, Ohio
Occupation: Actor, Director,
Active: '70s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: What's Up, Doc?, Short Circuit, Trial and Error
First Major Screen Credit: What's Up, Doc? (1972)
32 Videos for Austin Pendleton
Lovely By Surprise (2007) Men of Means (1998) Mr. Nanny (1993)
The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) Amistad (1997) My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Christmas With the Kranks (2004) Trial and Error (1997) Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Finding Nemo (2003) 2 Days in the Valley (1996) My Man Adam (1986)
Uptown Girls (2003) Sgt. Bilko (1996) Short Circuit (1986)
Manna From Heaven (2002) The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) The Muppet Movie (1979)
A Beautiful Mind (2001) The Proprietor (1996) The Great Smokey Roadblock (1976)
Fast Food Fast Women (2000) Home for the Holidays (1995) The Front Page (1974)
Homicide: The Movie (2000) Greedy (1994) What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Joe the King (1999) Guarding Tess (1994) Catch-22 (1970)
The 4th Floor (1999) Four Eyes and Six Guns (1993)
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Biography:

An alumnus of the Yale School of drama, American actor Austin Pendleton was lucky enough to latch onto a starmaking stage role relatively early in life. Pendleton was the first performer to play the part of tailor Motel Kamzoil in the evergreen musical {~Fiddler on the Roof,} in which he had one of the play's best non-Tevye songs, Miracle of Miracles.

Hollywood has been less generous to Pendleton in terms of good roles. He was cast in a supporting role in Skidoo (1968), a smash miss frequently cited as the worst film in the careers of most of its participants (Jackie Gleason, Groucho Marx, Carol Channing, Otto Preminger, et al.) He was shown to better advantage in What's Up, Doc? (1972), while in The Front Page (1974) he sparkled as a condemned killer plagued by a bad head cold on the eve of his execution.

A first-rate character player, Austin Pendleton has never quite scaled the heights of stardom in films, though his theatre work as both actor and director has always been critically lauded. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.