Editing Nat Pendleton (section)

==Personal life ==
Pioneer actor and director of the early American silent film era, [[Arthur V. Johnson]], was his uncle. His siblings include: [[Steve Pendleton|Steve]] (1908–1984), an American film and television actor,<ref name="slamwrestling/pendletons-route">{{cite web |title=Pendleton's unparalleled route: Olympics, pros, Hollywood |url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2006/05/25/pendletons-unparalleled-route-olympics-pros-hollywood/ |website=Slam Wrestling |date=25 May 2006 |access-date=30 June 2023}}</ref> and [[Edmund J. Pendleton|Edmund]] (1899–1987), a well-known music [[composer]] and choir master and organist for the [[American Church in Paris]].

On the 1920 census, he was working as a sports manager, living in Manhattan, with his Puerto Rican wife, Juanita Alfonzo (age 22), and Ramon Alfonso (age 13), his wife's brother.<ref name="classicmoviehub/nat-pendleton">{{cite web |title=Nat Pendleton |url=https://www.classicmoviehub.com/facts-and-trivia/star/nat-pendleton/ |website=Classic Movie Hub |access-date=30 June 2023}}</ref>

Pendleton died in a [[San Diego, California]] hospital in 1967 after suffering a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]].<ref name="LAT"/><ref name="nytimes/1967/10/13/nat-pendleton">{{cite news |title=NAT PENDLETON, MOVIE ACTOR, 72; Portrayer of Simpletons in Many Films Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/10/13/archives/nat-pendleton-movie-actor-72-portrayer-of-simpletons-in-many-films.html |access-date=30 June 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=13 October 1967}}</ref> He was survived by his second wife, Margaret Evelyn "Barbara" Carse.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oliver |first=Greg |date=May 25, 2006 |title=Pendleton's unparalleled route: Olympics, pros, Hollywood |url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2006/05/25/pendletons-unparalleled-route-olympics-pros-hollywood/ |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=Slam Wrestling |language=en-US}}</ref>