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On television, he notably played Virgil Harvey, the father to Olivia Cole‘s character Mathilda, on ABC’s 1977 series, Roots.
The star also appeared in the 1973 film Battle for the Planet of the Apes, which was directed by J. Lee Thompson.
In the film, Austin portrayed Macdonald, the human assistant of Roddy McDowall’s Caesar.
Others will remember Austin playing Brick Williams, the love interest of Pam Grier’s private investigator, in 1975’s Sheba, Baby.
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