- Gary Burghoff, M*A*S*H, 1969. Choosing Catch 22 instead was the biggest mistakeof Pendleton’s career. Then again, it didn’t stop himwinning a further 100-plus screen roles.And he looked so much like Burghoff.
- Ken Howard, Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, 1969. For his sixth consecutive flop, producer-director-ogre Otto Preminger – totally out of whack with the 60s/70s public – skated between Howard, Pendleton and a third Otto film with John Philip Law as the seizure prone Arthur. Even Paramount vp Peter Bart said the drama – about three hospital patients, physically, mentally or sexually scarred, moving in together – was “intrinsically down beat and depressing.” Right.
- Bud Cort, Brewster McCloud, 1970. Another no to director Robert Altman… Scenarist Doran William Cannon said he wrote the then Brewster McCloud’s Amazing, Sexy Flying Machine for Pendleton – who had been in his Skidoo, 1968.
- John Cazale, The Godfather, 1971.
- Reg Rogers, Lovely By Surprise, 2006. Auteur Kirt Dunn asked him to be Bob – and then made him Jackson when Frank Langella refused the role.
- Steve Carrel, Horton Hears A Who, 2007. Pendelton and Michael Keaton were also up for Mayor Ned McDodd – among the many refuting Horton’s claim abput finding a microscopic world… in a speck of dust. Jim Carrey voiced the elephant, his first toon gig. “A 15-minute picture locked in an 85-minute narrative,” complained The Guardian critic Philip French.
Birth year: Death year: Other name: Casting Calls: 6