Biography
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fAustin Pendleton (born March 27, 1940, Warren, Ohio, USA) is an American movie, television and stage actor.
Pendleton is a graduate of Yale University. As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in The Diary of Anne Frank, Grand Hotel, Doubles, Goodtime Charley, An American Millionaire, The Little Foxes, Hail Scrawdyke!, and as Motel the Tailor in the premiere of Fiddler on the Roof.
Pendleton is also an accomplished playwright, of Uncle Bob, Booth, and Orson's Shadow, all of which have received critically-acclaimed off-Broadway productions. As a director, Pendleton has staged work on and off Broadway including The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, Spoils of War by Michael Weller, The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt and War in Paramus by Barbara Dana.
He served as Artistic Director for Circle Repertory Company with associate artistic director Lynne Thigpen.
He received a Tony Award nomination in 1981 for his direction of The Little Foxes, which starred Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton.
Mr. Pendleton is an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. He began his artistic relationship there by directing Say Goodnight, Gracie for the 1979-1980 season. In addition to directing at Steppenwolf, Mr. Pendleton has appeared as an actor in such Steppenwolf productions as Uncle Vanya, Valparaiso and Educating Rita (also off-Broadway).
His film work is as diverse as A Beautiful Mind, What's Up, Doc?, The Front Page, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, and The Muppet Movie.
He has had several television roles as well including a reoccurring role on HBO's Oz.
Notoriously, he played a supporting role in Skidoo (1968), a movie frequently cited as the worst film in the careers of most of its participants including Jackie Gleason, Groucho Marx, Carol Channing, and Otto Preminger.
He starred in My Cousin Vinny as John Gibbons, the stuttering public defender.
He appeared in the play Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertholt Brecht along with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline in the New York Shakespeare Festival / Public Theatre production directed by George C. Wolfe in Central Park, August, 2006.
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