{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#52 - Director Ray Austin","description":"You can count on one finger those industry professionals who have transitioned from a career as a stuntman climbing the faces of Mount Rushmore in Hitchcock\u2019s North by Northwest to that of Hollywood\u2019s \u201cgo-to\u201d television director. That man is Ray Austin, whose work as a director includes episodes on every hit TV series from the 1960s to the present day. In this incredibly entertaining conversation with Bob & Suzanne, Ray shares intimate stories of his wartime childhood and the events leading to his lifelong relationship with legendary film star Cary Grant. You\u2019ll be infused with Ray\u2019s unmatched energy and work ethic as he recalls his early conversation with Alfred Hitchcock that revealed his own ambition to someday replace Hitchcock in the director\u2019s chair. Ray created and coordinated the amazing stunts for such epics as Cleopatra and Spartacus, and worked as an actor in classic films like The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. More acting followed in TV series like The Saint and The Avengers, which only whetted his appetite for calling the shots from behind the camera. You\u2019ll hear how Ray\u2019s athletic prowess and charismatic personality were matched by a keen writing ability that soon won him his first directing gigs. The life and career of Ray Austin\u2014with more than 300 directing credits ranging from The Saint and Black Beauty to Magnum, P.I., The Six Million Dollar Man, Highlander, Spenser: for Hire, and The New Zorro\u2014and with a pantheon of show business celebrity friendships ranging from Cary Grant to TV\u2019s iconic producer Quinn Martin--is nearly the stuff of fiction. Today, Ray\u2014the bona fide holder of an historic feudal Irish title as The Baron Raymond John DeVere-Austin\u2014is the renowned author of Find Me a Spy, Catch Me a Traitor as well as the Beauford Sloan Mystery Series, a page-turning trilogy which includes The Eagle Heist, Dead Again, and Your Turn to Die (all great reads now available at Amazon.com). The story of Ray Austin\u2019s life and career is an inspiring and compelling piece of Hollywood history, the likes of which will never be seen again. It\u2019s a conversation you don\u2019t want to miss! ","author_name":"Where Hollywood Hides: Screenwriting | Television | Movies | Music | Show Business | Writing | Producing | Directing | Acting","author_url":"http:\/\/www.wherehollywoodhides.com","html":"