Ned Austin
Ned Payne Austin (born 1925) is a character actor and a member of the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA.
Austin was in several films, including Annie Hall and Happy Ending, and some regional movies and industrial films, and he played the bridgemaster in Stephen King's directorial debut, Maximum Overdrive.
After two seasons of summer stock in Surrey, Maine, he starred as Daniel Boone for the first 3 years (1952-1954) of Horn in the West in Boone, North Carolina and then moved to Denver, Colorado, where he appeared in about forty stage productions, in various theatre companies.
His televison credits include several kiddie shows and parts in Movin' On, Alias Smith and Jones, Route 66, and a CBS movie of the week, Company of Killers, as well as numerous commercials.
Austin's son, Sam Austin, starred in the Disney film Mountain Born in 1970, the first movie ever shot in Telluride, Colorado. Sam wrote the title song and became the youngest member of ASCAP, at the age of 11.
In 1972 Austin returned to Boone, North Carolina to live, and he continued to act in community theatre productions and in regionally-produced films.