Nat Pendleton
Birthday: 1895-08-07
Place of Birth: Davenport, Iowa, USA
Biography: 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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The Thin Man
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Calling Dr. Gillespie
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At the Circus
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Scared to Death
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Baby Face
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Penthouse
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Manhattan Melodrama
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Buck Privates
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The Cat's-Paw
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Another Thin Man
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The Mad Doctor of Market Street
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The Great Ziegfeld
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Lady for a Day
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Northwest Passage
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It's a Wonderful World
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Phantom Raiders
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The Sign of the Cross
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Reckless
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Swing Your Lady
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The Star Witness
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
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Flight Command
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
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Death on the Diamond
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Flesh
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Exposure
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Under Cover of Night
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Jail House Blues
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The Garden Murder Case
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Arsène Lupin Returns
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Calling Dr. Kildare
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The Nuisance
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
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College Coach
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Fast Company
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Whistling in the Dark
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Straight Is the Way
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Fugitive Lovers
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The Gay Bride
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Goldie Gets Along
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Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
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The Night Club Lady
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The Big Pond
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The Defense Rests
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Song of the City
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Gangway
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Times Square Lady
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Here Comes the Band
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The Secret Witness
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The Tenderfoot
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Parachute Jumper
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The Shopworn Angel
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Horse Feathers
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Death Valley
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Top Sergeant Mulligan
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The Big Timer
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Attorney for the Defense
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
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The Laughing Lady
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The Beast of the City
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The Ruling Voice
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Let's Get Married
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Breakdowns of 1938
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938....
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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Fair Warning
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The Chaser
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him,...
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Deception
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have be...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster
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The Spirit of Notre Dame
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's t...
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
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The Ghost Comes Home
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The World of Abbott and Costello
A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Na...
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By Whose Hand?
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
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Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld celebrates the lives and careers of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Featured are clips f...
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