Leslie Austin

Biography

A crisp London morning on 21 November 1885 welcomed Leslie Austin into the world, and the footlights soon beckoned. Before the talkies took over, he lent his polished presence to the silent screen—most memorably navigating the moral maze of Mrs. Dane’s Defense in 1918, trading political winks in The Governor’s Lady five years later, and swaggering through frontier lore in 1923’s Vincennes. The curtain finally fell for him in May 1974, leaving behind a flickering legacy of early-cinema grace.