{{Short description|British actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} '''Austin Leigh''' (born 1860) was a British stage and film actor.<ref name="GRB1906">{{cite book |title=The Green Room Book; Or, Who's who on the Stage|date=1906 |publisher=T.S. Clark |page=12 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/117435|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118094007/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/117435|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-18|title=Austin Leigh|work=BFI|access-date=2018-07-30|language=en}}</ref>
==Actor-manager== Anthony Austin-Leigh was born in north London in 1860, the son of a solicitor. He was educated at Bruce Castle School and attended King's College, London.<ref name="GRB1906"/> A clerk in the Civil Service, he was an amateur actor in the 1880s.<ref name="SEA">{{cite news |title=Mr. A. Austen-Leigh |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000552/19070831/130/0006 |work=South Eastern Advertiser |date=31 August 1907|page=6}}</ref> After some coaching from Mrs. Chippendale and Miss Glyn, he went for a few weeks to the School of Dramatic Art on Argyle Street that had opened in 1882.<ref name="GRB1906"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Haydn |first1=Joseph |title=Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations |date=1892 |publisher=Ward, Lock, Bowden |page=295 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=62nAgr-I-qwC&pg=PA295 |language=en}}</ref>
Austin-Leigh's professional debut was at the original Theatre Royal, Windsor.<ref name="SEA"/> He appeared in a theatrical directory listing in 1888, at an address on Highbury New Park, moving the following year to Belsize Park Gardens.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Clement |last2=Capes |first2=Bernard Edward Joseph |last3=Eglington |first3=Charles |last4=Bright |first4=Addison |title=The Theatre |date=1888 |publisher=Wyman & Sons |page=ix |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T76KL_PqvdoC&pg=RA2-PR9 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Theater: A Monthly Review and Magazine |date=1889 |publisher=Wyman & Sons |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r_g5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PT11 |language=en}}</ref> In 1888 he married Emmie O'Reilly, also on the stage, with a similar background, coached by Mrs. Chippendale and Horace Wigan, and a student at the School of Dramatic Art. She had a long run at the Lyceum Theatre, London with Mary Anderson, and was a leading lady with Augustus Harris.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Green Room Book; Or, Who's who on the Stage|date=1906 |publisher=T.S. Clark |page=263 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1909, Austin-Leigh was the subject of bankruptcy proceedings, as an actor and theatrical manager, living in Pimlico.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28253 |date=21 May 1909 |page=3933}}</ref> His stage career continued until at least 1917, when he appeared in ''The Little Damozel'' at the Palace Pier, Brighton.<ref>{{cite news |title=Provincial News: Brighton |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000053/19170627/073/0007 |work=The Era |date=27 June 1917|page=7}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''Brigadier Gerard'' (1915) * ''Beau Brocade'' (1916) * ''The Temptress'' (1920) * ''Desire'' (1920) * ''Adventures of Captain Kettle'' (1922) * ''Old Bill Through the Ages'' (1924) * ''Bulldog Drummond's Third Round'' (1925)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0500171}}
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