Nat Pendleton

Known for ActingBorn 1895-08-07Died 1967-10-12Davenport, Iowa, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld

Jail House Blues

Sing Me a Love Song

Fair Warning

The Chaser

Life Begins in College

Song of the City

Two in a Crowd

The George Gobel Show

The Sea Wolf

Let's Get Married

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

On Borrowed Time

Complicated Women

The Thin Man

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Tenderfoot

Deception

The Girl from Missouri

Death on the Diamond

Baby Face

The Laughing Lady

The Luckiest Girl in the World

Child of Manhattan

Another Thin Man

The Spirit of Notre Dame

The World of Abbott and Costello

The Defense Rests

Lady for a Day

Calling Dr. Gillespie

The Night Club Lady

The Crowd Roars

Gangway

Times Square Lady

Here Comes the Band

Manhattan Melodrama

Lazy River

Blonde Crazy

New Moon

Trapped by Television

Penthouse

Horse Feathers

Buck Privates

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

The Shopworn Angel

Taxi!

The Star Witness