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 sixdecade career has included roles in films including Catch22 1970 Whats 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 offBroadway 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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