Austin Pendleton

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. & 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. Provided by Wikipedia