Cast & creator
Austin Pendleton
Best known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The West Wing
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 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. He has received two Drama Desk Award nominations and the recipient of a Special Drama Desk Award in 2007. He also received a Obie Award for Best Director for the 2011 off-Broadway revival of Three Sisters. Recent Broadway credits include Choir Boy in 2016 and The Minutes in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Pendleton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
101
film credits
36
television credits
135
1956–2026 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (137)
Showing 137 of 137 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Horace Gorman
1999
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
John Manotti
2001
The West Wing
Barry Haskell
1999
Frasier
Dr. Dorfman
1993
Person of Interest
Pilcher
2011
Great Performances
Bennie
1971Great Performances
White Rabbit
1971
Murder, She Wrote
Barney Gunderson
1984
The Practice
Sam Feldberg
1997
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Touched by an Angel
Mr. Piltdown
1994
Billions
Goose Quill
2016
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
Miami Vice
Max Rogo
1984
Love, American Style
1969
St. Elsewhere
Mr. Entertainment
1982
The Cosby Show
Mr. Kensington
1984
The Good Fight
Dr. Goat
2017
Homicide: Life on the Street
Dr. George Griscom
1993
21 Jump Street
Mr. Trysla
1987
New Amsterdam
Eli Pembroke
2018
Oz
William Giles
1997
The Equalizer
Jonah
1985
Tales from the Crypt
Orloff
1989
Finding Nemo
Gurgle (voice)
2003
Joan of Arcadia
Dietrich Steinholz
2003
Good Times
1974
Difficult People
Director
2015
A Beautiful Mind
Thomas King
2001
Finding Dory
Gurgle (voice)
2016
Life on Mars
Dr. Goldman
2008
Fired Up
Bobby H.
1997
New York News
1995
Uptown Girls
Mr. McConkey
2003
Christmas with the Kranks
Umbrella Santa / Marty
2004
My Cousin Vinny
John Gibbons
1992
The Muppet Movie
Max
1979
Masquerade
Actor
1983
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Dr. Masters
2010
Cupid
Dr. Boyd
2009
Short Circuit
Howard Marner
1986
American Dreamer
1990
Leg Work
Harold Rodman
1987
Alex, Inc.
Wesley Harman
2018
2 Days in the Valley
Ralph Crupi
1996
Liberty!
Benjamin Rush
1997
She's Funny That Way
Judge Pendergast
2015
Guarding Tess
Earl
1994
Catch-22
Lt. Col. Moodus
1970
What's Up, Doc?
Frederick Larrabee
1972
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Barry
1996
Starting Over
Paul
1979
Greedy
Hotel Clerk
1994
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Asa Hoffman
1993
The Sound of Silence
Robert Feinway
2019
Sgt. Bilko
Major Ebersole
1996
The Notorious Bettie Page
Teacher
2006
The Front Page
Earl Williams
1974
The Associate
Aesop Franklin
1996
Petulia
Intern (uncredited)
1968
Hello Again
Junior Lacey
1987
Home for the Holidays
Peter Arnold
1995
Mr. Nanny
Alex Mason, Sr.
1993
Two Much
Dr. Huffeyer
1995
Wishcraft
Mr. Turner
2002
My Boyfriend's Back
Dr. Bronson
1993
The Concert for New York City
Austin Pendleton film buff
2001
Game Change
Senator Joe Lieberman
2012
The 4th Floor
Albert Collins
1999
Off Beat
Gun Shop Salesman
1986
The World of Jim Henson
Max (archive footage)
1994
Joe the King
Winston
1999
Fast Food Fast Women
George
2000
The Great Smokey Roadblock
Guido
1978
Homicide: The Movie
George Griscom
2000
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Lawyer Taylor
1991
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
2019
Olympia
Self
2018
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Mr. Gadbury
1990
Don't Drink the Water
Chef Oscar
1994
June Moon
Bennie
1974
Sue
Bob
1998
Trial and Error
Judge Paul Z. Graff
1997
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Zukovsky
1973
True Identity
Director of Othello
1991
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
Fancy Car Man (uncredited)
1976
Queenie in Love
Alvin
2001
Diary of the Dead
Dr. Klein
1976
Skidoo
Fred the Professor
1968
7 Splinters in Time
Fyodor Wax
2018
River Made to Drown In
Billy
1997
The Mimic
The Driver
2021
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
Jaurice
2005
Broke Even
Archie
2000
Four Eyes and Six-Guns
Moustached Passenger
1992
Paint
Professor Jacob Winston
2020
First Family
Dr. Alexander Grade
1980
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
Hamlet
1995
Starring Austin Pendleton
Self
2016
Piccadilly Jim
Peter Pett
2004
Manna from Heaven
Two-Digit Doyle
2002
Strip Search
James Perley
2004When Robert Met Judith
Robert
Between Riverside and Crazy
Director
2023
Sunset
Julian
2018
The Proprietor
Willy Kunst
1996
Simon
Dr. Carl Becker
1980
Sounds from a Town I Love
film buff
2001
Edge of Outside
Self
2006
The Acting Class
Bobby Austin
2000
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Self
2019
Alice in Wonderland
White Rabbit
1983
Charlie's Ear
Harold Blodgett
1992Sick in the Head
2003
5-25-77
Herb Lightman
2008
Rain Without Thunder
Catholic Priest
1993
Every Little Crook and Nanny
Luther
1972
Angela
2002
Hairbrained
Dapper Man
2013
Essentials
Max
2022
The Pitchfork Retreat
Dr. Nacht
2025
Talk to Me
Richard Patterson
1984
Theater of War
Self
2008
Amistad
Professor Gibbs
1997
My Man Adam
Mr. Greenhut
1985
Dirty Work
Julian
2006
The Fumbleheads
Eugene Cleft
1997
Men of Means
Jerry Trask
1999
The Mend
Earl
2014
Raising Flagg
Gus Falk
2006
Our Father
Jerry
2021
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Director
1983
Wanderland
Raphael
2018
Magic Hour
Joseph
2025
Black Box
William Peters
2013
The Reunion
2022