He has starred in several films including Petulia, Catch-22, What’s Up, Doc?, The Thief Who Came to Dinner, The Front Page, Diary of the Dead, The Great Smokey Roadblock, The Muppet Movie, Simon, First Family, Talk to Me, Short Circuit, My Cousin Vinny, Mr. Nanny, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Guarding Tess, Home for the Holidays, Sgt. Bilko, The Associate, A Beautiful Mind, Christmas with the Kranks, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and more. Austin Pendleton was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2002 for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture for A Beautiful Mind.
