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Nat Pendleton

Nat Pendleton

Actor · 1895 – 1967 · Davenport, 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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.2

    Baby Face

    1933 · 161 votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Thin Man

    1934 · 555 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Great Ziegfeld

    1936 · 148 votes

  • Movie6.4

    At the Circus

    1939 · 99 votes

  • Movie6.4

    The Sign of the Cross

    1932 · 53 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Lady for a Day

    1933 · 98 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Buck Privates

    1941 · 78 votes

  • Movie6.5

    It's a Wonderful World

    1939 · 50 votes

  • Movie7.6

    On Borrowed Time

    1939 · 31 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Manhattan Melodrama

    1934 · 81 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Horse Feathers

    1932 · 256 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Another Thin Man

    1939 · 145 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Swing Fever

    1943 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.3

    I'm No Angel

    1933 · 66 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Buck Privates Come Home

    1947 · 32 votes

  • Movie7.2
  • Movie6.6

    Murder in the Fleet

    1935 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Death Valley

    1946 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Shopworn Angel

    1938 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.1
  • Movie6.6

    Northwest Passage

    1940 · 64 votes

  • Movie8.5
  • Movie7.4

    The Girl from Missouri

    1934 · 16 votes

  • Movie6.0

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  • TV7.8

    The George Gobel Show

    1954 · 4 votes