Nat Pendleton
Acting
Born 1895-08-07
Died 1967-10-12
Davenport, Iowa, USA
111 credits
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Nathaniel Greene 'Nat' Pendleton was an American former Olympic wrestler turned actor.
Two-time Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) champion (1914-1915) in the 175-lb. class at Columbia University, Pendleton graduated Class of 1916. He wrestled for the United States at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium, earning a silver medal, losing only one match due to a controversial point decision. After the Games he became a professional wrestler and was a big fan favorite, which led to Hollywood.
In the 1920 census he was living in Manhattan with his first wife Juanita Alfonzo (age 22) and her brother Ramon Alfonso (age 13). He was working as a sports manager.
Pendleton was usually cast as a circus strongman, brutish thug, dumb cop, or dense buffoon, but he had a college degree and in 1933 wrote the script for Deception (1932), in which he starred - not surprisingly - as a wrestler.
Upon his death from a heart attack, his remains were interred at Cypress View Mausoleum and Crematory in San Diego, California.
Nat Pendleton was inducted into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame inaugural class in 2006.
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Filmography
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Baby Face
The George Gobel Show
The Thin Man
The Sign of the Cross
It's a Wonderful World
I'm No Angel
Buck Privates
Blonde Crazy
The Great Ziegfeld
The Gay Bride
Northwest Passage
Another Thin Man
Manhattan Melodrama
Complicated Women
Lady for a Day
Horse Feathers
Buck Privates Come Home
Swing Fever
The Big Parade of Comedy
At the Circus
Flight Command
Death Valley
Crazy House
Times Square Lady
New Moon
Breakdowns of 1938
The Beast of the City
Penthouse
On Borrowed Time
The Night Club Lady
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Jail House Blues
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Murder in the Fleet
Reckless
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
Two in a Crowd
The Shopworn Angel
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Taxi!
Fast Company
Parachute Jumper
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Sing Me a Love Song
The Ghost Comes Home
Under Cover of Night
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
Fugitive Lovers
Lazy River
Flesh
Calling Dr. Kildare
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
The Golden Fleecing
The Nuisance
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Child of Manhattan
Young Dr. Kildare
College Coach
It's in the Air
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