Nat Pendleton
Gender: Male
Born: 9th August 1895
Died: 12th October 1967
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Scared to Death, Buck Privates Come Home, It's a Wonderful World, Young Dr. Kildare, Goldie Gets Along, Lady for a Day, Northwest Passage, The Sign of the Cross, The Secret of Dr. Kildare, Another Thin Man, Manhattan Melodrama, The Thin Man, The Great Ziegfeld, Meet the Mayor, Trapped by Television, Fugitive Lovers, Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case, Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant, Baby Face Harrington, Murder in the Fleet, Here Comes the Band, The Golden Fleecing, The Ghost Comes Home, Calm Yourself, Song of the City, Times Square Lady, Arsène Lupin Returns, Calling Dr. Gillespie, The Chaser, The Garden Murder Case, Dr. Kildare Goes Home, Dr. Kildare's Crisis, Burn 'Em Up O'Connor, Phantom Raiders, Swing Fever, Sing and Like It
Nathaniel Greene "Nat" Pendleton (August 9, 1895 – October 12, 1967) was an American Olympic wrestler and film actor.
Pendleton was born in Davenport, Iowa to Adelaide E. and Nathaniel G. Pendleton. He studied at Columbia University where he began his wrestling career. He was twice Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) champion in 1914 and 1915. Chosen to compete in the US wrestling team at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, Pendleton lost only one match during the competition, and was awarded a silver medal. Returning to the US he became a professional wrestler, and with the celebrity status he had achieved, drifted into movies in the late 1920s.
His early roles were largely uncredited. Then he was chosen to appear in Horse Feathers (1932) with the Marx Brothers as one of the two college football players who kidnap Harpo and Chico, and his career began to develop. His role as circus strongman Eugen Sandow in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) brought him the strongest reviews of his career. Pendleton was most often cast in supporting roles as thugs, gangsters, or policemen and was usually typecast playing characters that depended on their brawn but were "none too
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