Ned Austin
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Ned Payne Austin (born 1925) is a character actor and a member of the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA.
Austin played the bridgemaster in Stephen King's directorial debut, Maximum Overdrive. He starred as Daniel Boone for the first 3 years (1952-1954) of Horn in the West in Boone, North Carolina and then was a local television host in the 1950s in Denver, Colorado. During the Denver years (1955-1971) he appeared in about forty stage productions, in various theatre companies. Later he appeared in Annie Hall in a non-speaking role and made several "regional" movies in the '70's under the name Jack Payne.
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.
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