Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton was born in Warren, Ohio, United States on March 27th, 1940 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 84, Austin Pendleton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, stage producer, and tutor.
Early life and education
Pendleton was born in Warren, Ohio, the son of Thorn Pendleton, who owned a tool shop, and Frances (née Manchester) Pendleton, a professional actor. He attended University School, a private all-boys academy in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where he graduated in 1957. Roger Ailes, a childhood friend, was interviewed later by Fox News; Pendleton addresses Ailes in the A&E documentary Divide and Conquer: Roger Ailes' Story.
Pendleton, a 1961 Yale University graduate and a member of the Yale Dramatic Association, co-authored two musical plays with lyricist Peter Bergman in 1958, including lyricist Robert Proctor and Booth Is Back In Town. Proctor and Bergman were later members of The Firesign Theatre comedy group.
Career
Pendleton's debut as Motel in the original Broadway cast of Fiddler on the Roof earned critical acclaim in 1964. He appeared in The Last Sweet Days of Isaac (for which he received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance and an Obie Award), The Diary of Anne Frank, Goodtime Charley, and Up from Paradise, as well as many other scripts. Pendleton appeared in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children with Meryl Stout and Kevin Kline in the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater performance directed by George C. Wolfe in August 2006. In 2007, he appeared in Friar Lawrence's production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Delacorte Theater.
Pendleton wrote Uncle Bob, Booth, and Orson's Shadow, which were all filmed off-Broadway. In 2001, Uncle Bob appeared at The SoHo Playhouse for the first time—and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who made his New York debut in the role. Courtney Moorehead directed the critically acclaimed film, while Steven Sendor produced it.
Pendleton has performed on and off Broadway as a director. Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes won him a Tony Award nomination in 1981. The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt (1977), Spoils of War by Michael Weller (1988), and The Size of the World by Charles Evered (1996).
Pendleton is also a member of The Mirror Theater Ltd's Mirror Repertory Company, which is also responsible for the company's 1984 production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, which stars Geraldine Page, Sabra Jones, and Victor Slezak. Henry VI and Richard III's film H6R3, a collection of Henry VI and Richard III, became a benefit performance of The Mirror Theater Ltd in New York's then Promenade Theatre Ltd in order to make the storyline more distinct and raise the woman's roles. In this performance, Pendleton performed Richard, Elizabeth Greygrave played Mad Margaret, Lynn Redgrave played Mad Margaret, Charles McAteer played Henry VIII, Daniel Gerroll played Buckingham, and Lisa Pelikan played Lady Anne.
Pendleton directed Uncle Vanya, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard at the Classic Stage Company in 2009. He produced Tennessee Williams' autobiographical play Vieux Carré at The Pearl Theatre Company in the same year as he did. Pendleton produced two plays Bus Stop at the Olney Theatre Company and Golden Age in January and February 2010. An Obie Award was given to him for his 2011 direction of Three Sisters. He supervised a revival of Detroit at the National Theatre in London in 2012.
Pendleton was Artistic Director of Circle Repertory Company alongside associate artistic director Lynne Thigpen. In 1996, the company was sold.
He teaches acting at HB Studio and directing at The New School in Greenwich Village. Pendleton has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago since directing Ralph Pape's Say Goodnight, Gracie for the 1979-80 season. Uncle Vanya, Valparaiso, and Educating Rita are among his acting debuts at Steppenwolf.
Pendleton is the subject of Starring Austin Pendleton, a documentary in which coworkers, including Meryl Stymour Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Olympia Dukakis, Ethan Hawke, and others discuss his life and legacy.
He appeared in Tracy Letts' latest play The Minutes in Chicago, which has since been moved to Broadway.