11 Facts About Phil Austin

Philip Baine Austin was an American comedian and writer, best known as a member of the Firesign Theatre.

Phil Austin's mother was a drama teacher which influenced his upbringing as an actor.

Phil Austin attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, because it was nearly the most distant point in the continental United States from Fresno.

Phil Austin attended Fresno State College and UCLA, but did not graduate from any of them.

Phil Austin was in the UCLA Drama Department at the same time as another dropout, Ray Manzarek of The Doors.

Phil Austin played the group's best-known creation, private investigator Nick Danger.

Phil Austin had served as the troupe's musician and record producer.

Phil Austin was the most surreal writer of all of us.

Phil Austin wrote a solo work, Roller Maidens From Outer Space, and directed Eat Or Be Eaten.

Phil Austin died at his home in Fox Island, Washington, on June 18,2015, at the age of 74.

When he died, his wife Oona mentioned that Phil Austin had been diagnosed with cancer months before.