# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-austin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:18:14.748Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-austin"
name: "Gary Austin"
slug: "gary-austin"
description: "Gary Austin was an American improvisational theatre teacher, writer, and director who founded The Groundlings theatre company in 1974."
tagline: "American theatre director (1941-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gary_Austin_1963.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-10-18"
deathDate: "2017-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.6
  momentum:             0.1985559566787004
  historical:           6.82034
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042384/"
    handle:    "nm0042384"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.garyaustinworkshops.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Austin"
    title: "Gary Austin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "غاري أوستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جارى اوستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Austin"
    title: "Gary Austin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Austin"
    title: "Gary Austin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Austin"
    title: "Gary Austin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Austin"
    title: "Gary Austin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3494311"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1755637"
    title: "Gary Austin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump