Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 23, 1920
Died
Aug 01, 2004
Place of Birth
Hollywood, California, USA
Credits
21 titles
Vivian Austin
Biography
Vivian Austin was an American actress who appeared in a number of films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, although most were B movies. Austin was born Irene Vivian Coe in Hollywood, California, and attended Hollywood High School. She was named Miss Hollywood in 1939. Austin played a variety of bit parts (as well as extra and stunt work) in movies before being cast as the female romantic lead in The Adventures of Red Ryder. She was signed to a stock contract in 1943 by Universal and as Vivian Austin (for Universal) or Terry Austin (under contract to Eagle-Lion Films) appeared in movies such as Destiny, Trigger Trail, Born To Speed and Philo Vance Returns. Her career was cut short in the late 1940s by kidney failure and resultant blindness. On August 1, 2004, Austin died from natural causes in a hospital in Los Angeles, California. Because her second husband had served in the United States Army, they are interred at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.
Known For
Filmography
T-Men
Genevieve (uncredited)
Stepchild
Millie Lynne
Philo Vance Returns
Lorena Blendon Simms
Philo Vance's Gamble
Laurian March (as Terry Austin)
Born to Speed
Toni Bradley (as Terry Austin)
Men in Her Diary
Linda
Honeymoon Ahead
Rosita
She Gets Her Man
Maybelle Clark
Night Club Girl
Eleanor Kendall
Destiny
Phyllis
Trigger Trail
Ann Cattlet
Boss of Boomtown
Dale Starr
Cobra Woman
Twilight on the Prairie
Sally Barton
Moon Over Las Vegas
Grace Towers
Hi, Good Lookin'!
Phyllis
Sing a Jingle
Ann
Moonlight in Vermont
Brenda Allenby
Fired Wife
Divorcee
Adventures of Red Ryder
Beth Andrews
Men Are Such Fools
Nancy Sinclair (uncredited)