1. Nathaniel Greene Pendleton was an American Olympic wrestler, film actor, and stage performer.
18 Facts About Nat Pendleton
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Nat Pendleton's younger brother, Edmund J Pendleton, was a well-known music composer and choir master and organist for the American Church in Paris.
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Nat Pendleton was born as Nathaniel Greene Pendleton in 1895 in Davenport, Iowa to Adelaide Elizabeth Pendleton and Nathaniel Greene Pendleton, an attorney, who was reportedly a descendant of American Revolutionary general Nathanael Greene.
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Nat Pendleton began his wrestling career at Columbia University, and served as captain of the school's wrestling team.
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Nat Pendleton was twice Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association champion in 1914 and 1915.
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Curley was aggressively promoting Nat Pendleton and issued a series of haughty challenges, among them boasting that Nat Pendleton could beat Ed "Strangler" Lewis and any other wrestler on the same night.
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Nat Pendleton began appearing in Hollywood films in uncredited parts and minor roles by the mid-1920s.
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Nat Pendleton was cast in at least 94 short films and features, most often being typecast in supporting roles, usually as "befuddled good guys" or as slow-witted thugs, gangsters, and policemen.
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Nat Pendleton appeared in the 1932 comedy Horse Feathers starring the Marx Brothers, performing in that film as one of two college football players who kidnap Harpo and Chico.
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Nat Pendleton appeared again as a circus strongman in the Marx Brothers' 1939 feature At the Circus.
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Nat Pendleton can be seen as well in recurring roles in two MGM film series from the 1930s and 1940s.
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Nat Pendleton played Joe Wayman, the ambulance driver, in MGM's Dr Kildare series and in its spin-off series Dr Gillespie.
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Nat Pendleton portrayed New York police lieutenant John Guild in The Thin Man series.
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Nat Pendleton's siblings include: Steve, an American film and television actor, and Edmund, a well-known music composer and choir master and organist for the American Church in Paris.
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Nat Pendleton died in a San Diego, California hospital in 1967 after suffering a heart attack.
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Nat Pendleton was survived by his second wife, Margaret Evelyn "Barbara" Carse.
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Nat Pendleton is a member of several halls of fame: the Glen Brand Wrestling Hall of Fame in Waterloo, Iowa, the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame in Cresco, Iowa, and the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Nat Pendleton is the subject of a biography by Mike Chapman, which was published in 2015.