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Austin Pendleton

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Actor b. 1940 On stage 19642022

Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, and theatre director. 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); Mr. Nanny (1993); 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 th…

On stage 9 productions, 58 years

1964 Fiddler on the Roof Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Jerome Robbins 3,242 perf.
1966 Hail Scrawdyke! Booth Theatre · Original · directed by Alan Arkin 8 perf.
1967 The Little Foxes Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by Mike Nichols 100 perf.
1974 An American Millionaire Circle In The Square Theatre · Original · directed by Gerald Freedman 20 perf.
1985 Doubles Ritz Theatre · Original · directed by Morton Da Costa 277 perf.
1989 Grand Hotel Martin Beck Theatre · Revival · directed by Tommy Tune 1,077 perf.
1997 The Diary of Anne Frank Music Box Theatre · Revival · directed by James Lapine 221 perf.
2019 Choir Boy Samuel J Friedman Theatre · Original · directed by Trip Cullman 72 perf.
2022 The Minutes Studio 54 · Original · directed by Anna D. Shapiro 108 perf.

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Worked with more than once1 names

Mitchell Jason 2 productions

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In the literature8 passages

  • Fiddler on the Roof. Tevye (Zero Mostel) is none too happy that daughter Tzeitel (Joanna Merlin) is marrying a poor tailor (Austin Pendleton). (Friedman-Abeles)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Zero Mostel, Maria Karnilova, Beatrice Arthur, Joanna Merlin, Austin Pendleton, Bert Convy, Julia Migenes, Michael Granger, Tanya Everett, Leonard Frey, Maurice Edwardsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • The first person cast, however, was not Zero Mostel but Austin Pendleton. Jerome Robbins had cast Pendleton in 1962 as overmothered young Jonathan in the actor’s first New York show, Arthur Kopit’s Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad. It was now September 1963, and Pendleton’s agent called to say Robbin…ebooks/Isenberg, Barbara/Tradition!_ The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical - Barbara Isenberg.txt
  • Joanna Merlin and Austin Pendleton, Fiddler’s bride and groom, also got dragged to Hasidic weddings with Robbins. “It was something he wanted us all to witness,” said Merlin, whose own parents were both born in Russia. “You became infected with the music, dance, spirit, and joy, and the whole atmosphere was really charged.”ebooks/Isenberg, Barbara/Tradition!_ The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical - Barbara Isenberg.txt
  • Original Broadway cast of Fiddler on the Roof included (right to left) Austin Pendleton (Motel), Bert Convy (Perchik), Zero Mostel (Tevye), Maria Karnilova (Golde), Joanna Merlin (Tzeitel), Julia Migenes (Hodel), Tanya Everett (Chava), Marilyn Rogers (Shprintze), and Linda Ross (Bielke). Photofestebooks/Isenberg, Barbara/Tradition!_ The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical - Barbara Isenberg.txt
  • Jerome Robbins directs Zero Mostel and Maria Karnilova as Joanna Merlin and Austin Pendleton await instruction.ebooks/Solomon, Alisa/Wonder of Wonders_ A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof - Alisa Solomon.txt

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