Vivian Austin
Actor
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.
Filmography
Cobra Woman
1944
Destiny
as Phyllis 1944
Men Are Such Fools
as Nancy Sinclair (uncredited) 1938
Philo Vance's Gamble
as Laurian March (as Terry Austin) 1947
She Gets Her Man
as Maybelle Clark 1945
Hi, Good Lookin'!
as Phyllis 1944
Fired Wife
as Divorcee 1943
Philo Vance Returns
as Lorena Blendon Simms 1947
Adventures of Red Ryder
as Beth Andrews 1940
Honeymoon Ahead
as Rosita 1945
Trigger Trail
as Ann Cattlet 1944
Moonlight in Vermont
as Brenda Allenby 1943
Sing a Jingle
as Ann 1944
Stepchild
as Millie Lynne 1947
Moon Over Las Vegas
as Grace Towers 1944
Boss of Boomtown
as Dale Starr 1944