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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Complicated Women
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered fi...

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
1994
as Self (archive footage)
Jerry Seinfeld celebrates the lives and careers of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Featured are clips from their movies and TV shows, plus home movies, n...

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
as Bill Raymond (archive footage)
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

The World of Abbott and Costello
1965
as Sergeant Michael Collins in Buck Privates (archive footage)
A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and Costello...

The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
as William T. Magiz in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Buck Privates Come Home
1947
as Sgt. Michael Collins
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up runnin...

Scared to Death
1947
as Bill 'Bull' Raymond
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor...

Death Valley
1946
as Jim Ward
A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the righ...

Swing Fever
1943
as 'Killer' Kennedy
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943
as Joe Weyman
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which...

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
1942
as Joe Weyman
The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.

Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942
as Joe Weyman
Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

The Mad Doctor of Market Street
1942
as Red Hogan
A fugitive doctor tries to raise the dead for South Sea Islanders.

Jail House Blues
1942
as Sonny McGann
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.

Top Sergeant Mulligan
1941
as Top Sgt. Herman Mulligan
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape ...

Buck Privates
1941
as Sgt. Michael Collins
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A...

Flight Command
1940
as C.P.O. 'Spike' Knowles
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression ...

Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940
as Joe Wayman
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiancee's brother.

Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940
as Joe Wayman
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.

The Golden Fleecing
1940
as 'Fatso' Werner
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

New Moon
1940
as Bondsman
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

Phantom Raiders
1940
as 'Gunboat' Jacklin
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter a...

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
1940
as Joe Wayman, Ambulance Driver
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.

The Ghost Comes Home
1940
as Roscoe
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

Northwest Passage
1940
as 'Cap' Huff
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force e...

The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
as Joe Wayman
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.

Another Thin Man
1939
as John Guild
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

At the Circus
1939
as Goliath
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take ov...

On Borrowed Time
1939
as Mr. Grimes
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future...

6,000 Enemies
1939
as Socks Martin
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

It's a Wonderful World
1939
as Sergeant Fred Koretz
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by ...

Calling Dr. Kildare
1939
as Joe Wayman
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. Wh...

Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
1939
as Buddy Buttle
An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.

Breakdowns of 1938
1938
as Joe (archive footage) (uncredited)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

Young Dr. Kildare
1938
as Joe Wayman
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his k...

The Crowd Roars
1938
as 'Pug' Walsh
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy do...

The Chaser
1938
as Floppy Phil
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the tr...

The Shopworn Angel
1938
as 'Dice'
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car ...

Fast Company
1938
as Paul Terison
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

Arsène Lupin Returns
1938
as Joe Doyle
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy ...

Swing Your Lady
1938
as Joe Skopapolous
Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Jo...

Life Begins in College
1937
as George Black
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on...

Gangway
1937
as Smiles Hogan
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.

Song of the City
1937
as Benvenuto Romandi
A carefree San Francisco bachelor rediscovers life's values when he's rescued from the sea by an Italian fisherman with a wise and earthy family.

Under Cover of Night
1937
as Police Sgt. Lucks
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.

Sing Me a Love Song
1936
as Rocky
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls fo...

Two in a Crowd
1936
as Flynn
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress...

The Luckiest Girl in the World
1936
as Dugan
A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.

Sworn Enemy
1936
as 'Steamer' Krupp
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

Trapped by Television
1936
as Rocky O'Neil
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.

The Great Ziegfeld
1936
as Sandow
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girl...

The Garden Murder Case
1936
as Sergeant Ernest Heath
Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance suspects foul play.

It's in the Air
1935
as Henry Potke
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, bu...

Here Comes the Band
1935
as 'Piccolo Pete'
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfrie...

Calm Yourself
1935
as Knuckles Benedict
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.

Murder in the Fleet
1935
as 'Spud' Burke
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of te...

Reckless
1935
as Blossom
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

Baby Face Harrington
1935
as Rocky
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No....

Times Square Lady
1935
as Mack
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir ...

The Gay Bride
1934
as William T. 'Shoots' Magiz
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.

Death on the Diamond
1934
as John 'Truck' Hogan
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the v...

Straight Is the Way
1934
as Skippy
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.

The Cat's-Paw
1934
as Strozzi
Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as...

The Girl from Missouri
1934
as Life Guard
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire...

The Defense Rests
1934
as Rocky
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

The Thin Man
1934
as Inspector John Guild
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Manhattan Melodrama
1934
as Spud
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Sing and Like It
1934
as T. Fenny Sylvester
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue

Lazy River
1934
as Alfred 'Tiny' Smith
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

Fugitive Lovers
1934
as Legs Caffey
In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels...

College Coach
1933
as Petrowski
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a g...

The Chief
1933
as Big Mike
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

I'm No Angel
1933
as Harry (uncredited)
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head ...

Lady for a Day
1933
as Shakespeare
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York'...

Penthouse
1933
as Tony Gazotti
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping l...

Baby Face
1933
as Stolvich - Laborer (uncredited)
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her hap...

The Nuisance
1933
as Aloysius P. McCarthy (uncredited)
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, un...

Child of Manhattan
1933
as Spyrene - Dance Hall Bouncer
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Danc...

Parachute Jumper
1933
as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.

Goldie Gets Along
1933
as Motorcycle Officer Cassidy
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.

Whistling in the Dark
1933
as Joe
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

Flesh
1932
as Wrestler (uncredited)
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

The Sign of the Cross
1932
as Strabo
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.

Deception
1932
as Bucky O'Neill
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.

Deception
1932
Story
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.

The Night Club Lady
1932
as Mike McDougal
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.

Exposure
1932
as Maniac Killer
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to mak...

Horse Feathers
1932
as MacHardie (uncredited)
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Da...

By Whose Hand?
1932
as 'Killer' Delmar
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped kill...

The Tenderfoot
1932
as Joe (uncredited)
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and p...

Attorney for the Defense
1932
as Mugg Malone
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.

The Big Timer
1932
as Kid Melrose (uncredited)
Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

Hell-Fire Austin
1932
as Bouncer
Heading west, Ken and Bouncer end up at the Brooks ranch where Ken is to ride Tarzan in the big race. But both the Sheriff and Edmonds are after him a...

A Fool's Advice
1932
as Kelly - Naughty Boy
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.

The Beast of the City
1932
as Abe Gorman (uncredited)
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

Taxi!
1931
as Bull Martin (uncredited)
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered...

Manhattan Parade
1931
as Lady Godiva's Husband
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

The Secret Witness
1931
as Gunner - Bodyguard
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor belie...

The Spirit of Notre Dame
1931
as Assistant Coach
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.

Blonde Crazy
1931
as Hank aka Pete
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

The Ruling Voice
1931
as Board Member (uncredited)
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.

The Star Witness
1931
as Big Jack
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals...

Fair Warning
1931
as Purvis
This George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix vehicle The Untamed. Cast as devil-may-car Whistli...

Crazy House
1930
as Chef (uncredited)
Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.

The Sea Wolf
1930
as Smoke
George, Ruth and Humphrey go for a boat ride with Wolf Larsen.

The Last of the Duanes
1930
as Bossamer
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of t...

The Big Pond
1930
as Pat O'Day
A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.

The Laughing Lady
1929
as James Dugan
A society woman wrongly -- and very publicly -- accused of infidelity is dropped by her friends, spurned by her husband, and faced with the loss of he...

Let's Get Married
1926
as Jimmy
College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout o...

The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1924
as Bud Means
A young Indiana schoolteacher finds himself embroiled in local conflicts when he falls in love with an indentured servant and must discover the identi...