Biography
Mandel "Mandy" Bruce Patinkin (/pəˈtɪŋkɪn/; born November 30, 1952) is an American actor and singer known for his work in musical theatre, television, and film. As a critically acclaimed Broadway performer, he collaborates with Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Patinkin's leading roles on stage and screen have received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for seven Drama Desk Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors G...
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Complete Filmography

The Magician's Elephant
2023
as Vilna Lutz (voice)
Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His only question is: is his sister stil...

A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020
as Inigo Montoya
The cast of The Princess Bride is together again! The stars of the iconic 1987 fantasy film reunited for a virtual table read hosted by Jason Reitman....

Disclosure
2020
as Avigdor (archive footage)
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have...

On Broadway
2019
as Self (archive footage)
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inc...

Before You Know It
2019
as Mel Gurner
A pair of sisters find out that the mother they thought was dead is alive and starring on a soap opera.

Harold Prince: The Director's Life
2018
Featuring archival clips from his many groundbreaking productions, the performance-documentary includes interviews with many of Prince's collaborators...

Life Itself
2018
as Irwin Dempsey
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create rev...

Wonder
2017
as Mr. Tushman
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

Smurfs: The Lost Village
2017
as Papa Smurf (voice)
In this fully animated, all-new take on the Smurfs, a mysterious map sets Smurfette and her friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting race throu...

The Queen of Spain
2016
as Jordan Berman
After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Fran...

Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
2016
as Self
This film from acclaimed theater director Lonny Price charts the journey of the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" in the 30-...

Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
2016
as Self - TV Spot Announcer (archive footage)
The link between heart disease and blood cholesterol is a medical dogma that has existed for the past fifty years and has led to the development of a ...

Ali and Nino
2016
as Duke Kipiani
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the F...

The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs
2015
as Narrator
Documentary revealing the inner workings of the world's most powerful intelligence organization, with unprecedented access to America's spy network, a...

Wish I Was Here
2014
as Gabe
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getti...

Six by Sondheim
2013
as Self (archive footage)
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.

Jock the Hero Dog
2011
as Basil (voice)
Animated-family adventure based on a true story that tells the heart-warming, coming-of-age story of a man and his best-friend, a lovable and fearless...

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
2010
as Self
Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway's greatest legends — the one and only Stephen Sondheim. For the master com...

4.3.2.1
2010
as Sir Jago Larofsky
Jo is chained down in a dead end supermarket job while all her friends are all out on their own separate adventures. But a chance encounter with some ...

Everyone's Hero
2006
as Stanley Irving (voice)
A boy begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series comes to a close.

Choking Man
2006
as Rick
The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama...

Remembering Ragtime
2004
as Tateh (archive footage)
Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".

NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323
2004
as Al Cummings
A team of federal investigators have to comb through the wreckage of a crashed airplane to find the cause of the fatal downing. Was it terrorism? Negl...

This Is the House That Jack Built
2004
What happened in the house that Jack built? It all started with the cheese that lay in the house that Jack built.

Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
as Che (segment "Evita")
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, wer...

Run Ronnie Run
2002
as Self
A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.

Piñero
2001
as Joseph Papp
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pr...

As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
2001
as Self
A "behinds the scenes" documentary about the making of the 1987 film THE PRINCESS BRIDE with original archive footage and new interviews with cast mem...

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
1999
as Huxley
Elmo loves his fuzzy, well-worn blue blanket more than anything in the whole world. However, when Elmo's blanket gets sucked through a colorful, swirl...

Strange Justice
1999
as Kenneth Duberstein
In this historical drama, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announces his retirement. The White House nominates Clarence Thomas as Marshall...

Speaking in Strings
1999
as Self
This real-life documentary explores the passionate & energetic presence of renowned Italian violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (she moved to the Unite...

Lulu on the Bridge
1998
as Philip Kleinman
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

Men with Guns
1998
as Andrew
Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.

The Hunchback
1997
as Quasimodo
Based on Victor Hugo's famed novel, the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame, and his unrequited love for the gypsy girl, Esmera...

Broken Glass
1996
as Dr Henry Hyman
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play set in Brooklyn 1938, focusing on the marriage of Sylvia and Phillip Gellburg against the backdrop of Kristallnacht...

Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II
1995
as Self
In commemoration of the 100th birthday of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, performers present classic Hammerstein songs.

Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
1994
as Brother Daniel
Squanto is a high-born Indian warrior from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighbo...

The Music of Chance
1993
as Jim Nashe
Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.

Life with Mikey
1993
as Irate Man
Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. When a young girl off the street puts on a real pe...

The Doctor
1991
as Murray
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has s...

Madonna: Truth or Dare
1991
as Self
From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary...

Impromptu
1991
as Alfred De Musset
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

True Colors
1991
as John Palmeri
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.

Dick Tracy
1990
as 88 Keys
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca...

Alien Nation
1988
as Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco
A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated in...

The House on Carroll Street
1988
as Salwen
Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old l...

The Princess Bride
1987
as Inigo Montoya
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid...

Sunday in the Park with George
1986
as Georges Seurat / George
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great paintings of the world, and in "Sunday in the Park with Georg...

Follies: In Concert
1986
as Buddy Plummer
A backstage documentary film including footage from the legendary 1985 concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical at Lincoln Center's A...

Sondheim on Broadway: Follies - Four Days in New York
1986
as Self
Documentary that follows four hectic days of rehearsal for a celebrated 1985 concert performance from Lincoln Center of Stephen Sondheim's musical Fol...

Maxie
1985
as Nick
When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20...

To Be Hamlet
1985
as Self
Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's play...

Yentl
1983
as Avigdor
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly fin...

Daniel
1983
as Paul Isaacson
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New...

Ragtime
1981
as Tateh
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...

Night of the Juggler
1980
as Allesandro the Cabbie
An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.

French Postcards
1979
as Sayyid
French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-Engli...

Last Embrace
1979
as First Commuter
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum,...

Charleston
1979
as Beaudine Croft
Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following the...

The Big Fix
1978
as Pool Man
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is re...
November 1963
N/A
as Anthony Accardo
Unfolds within the intense 48-hour period surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The film sheds light on crime group the Chicago ...
The Painted Bride
N/A
as (voice)
Elisha leads dual lives: daytime family duties and a nighttime project for his son and dying father. A crisis calls him back to Baltimore, dramaticall...