Austin Pendleton
Biography
Born in Warren, Ohio, and drawn to theater by his actress mother, Austin Pendleton is an American actor, playwright, and theater director. After graduating from Yale, he went to New York City to train at HB Studio before appearing in the 1962 off-Broadway production of Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. He joined the original Broadway cast of Fiddler on the Roof in 1964 as Motel the tailor, and later won Obie and Drama Desk Awards for The Last Sweet Days of Isaac. His films include Catch-22 (1970), What's Up, Doc? (1972), The Front Page (1974), The Muppet Movie (1979), Short Circuit (1986), My Cousin Vinny (1992), Guarding Tess (1994), A Beautiful Mind (2001), which earned him a Screen Actors Guild cast nomination, and Finding Nemo (2003). He directed The Little Foxes, earning a 1981 Tony nomination, and wrote plays including Uncle Bob and Orson's Shadow.
86years old
Turns 87 on March 27in 137 days
- Born Warren
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
Movie Career
- Films
- 45
- Career span
- 51 years1968 to 2019
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Big break
In 1964, Robbins brought Pendleton into the opening-night cast of Fiddler on the Roof when the show reached Broadway, and Pendleton played Motel the tailor.
Early training
Pendleton has been an acting teacher at HB Studio since 1969, and he also teaches directing at The New School.
Behind the camera
Pendleton was artistic director of the Circle Repertory Company, working alongside Lynne Thigpen, who held the role of associate artistic director there.
Austin Pendleton movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Jonathan Lynn directed four of these films, Peter Bogdanovich two. Two actors appear in four of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Eli Wallach's page
Madeline Kahn's page
Fred Gwynne's page
All films by Jonathan Lynn
All films by Peter Bogdanovich
Box office
What Austin Pendleton's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$2.0 billion
29 of the 45 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 45 films: 29 worldwide figure; 6 us gross only; 3 never in cinemas; 7 figure not found.
- 29Worldwide figure
- 6US gross only
- 3Never in cinemas
- 7Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 85% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$940M47.3% of the total
- 2$317M15.9% of the total
- 3$135M6.8% of the total
- 4$76M3.8% of the total
- 5$66M3.3% of the total
- 6$64M3.2% of the total
- 7$45M2.2% of the total
- 8$41M2.1% of the total
$303 millionfrom the other 21 films with a worldwide figure, 15% of the total
Online
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