Celebrated Actor Ford Austin is an award winning American Motion Picture, TV & Stage actor & filmmaker who was born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas. He makes feature films in Los Angrkes . He is a descendant of oil baron J. Steve Anderson who founded Anderson-Prichard Oil Corporation (APCO). For much of the mid-1990s, Austin lived as an actor in Philadelphia & New York City making stage appearances in the Philadelphia premiere of The a Grapes of Wrath, the Homecoming, Death of a Salesman at The Papermill Playhouse (with Ralph Waite and Lisa Richards), Macbeth, Lawyers at Westport Country Playhouse (with Kevin Conway) and many more. While in New York, he appeared on television series like Another World and Saturday Night Live. In 2000, he made his feature film debut in the war film Pearl Harbor as one of the legendary Doolittle pilots under the direction of a Michael Bay. Austin gained wide recognition for playing Darwin in Vicky Jenson's Family Tree with Talia Shire and Harland Williams. The movie premiered at Sundance and won the jury prize at SXSW and became the darling of the film festival circuit before qualifying for the Academy Awards. Immediately following the films success, Austin landed a national tour of a one man show called MaleIntellect: An Oxymoron which he performed in for almost two years before returning to Hollywood to try his hand at writing & directing. At this time, he and a close friend Scott Ingalls wrote and directed the hilariously successful comedy series about The Wright Brothers called The Wright Stuff. The Wright Stuff premiered on Dan Harmon and Rib Schrab's Channel 101 network and ran for six months as a prime time show until it was canceled. After that, Austin wrote and directed another academy qualifier film called Tiny Dancer which he filmed on the back-lot at Universal Studios. The motion picture featured a ballerina who uses her dancing to evade street punks. The dancing sequences were choreographed by Ballanchine dancer Zippora Karz and opened in theaters before becoming Austin's second Academy qualifying motion picture. About thus time, Austin was tapped by Stephen Chao (COPS, Americas Most Wanted) and Mike Goedecke of a Belief Design firm to launch an internet company called WobderHowTo.com. Austin became one of the first five hires of the new company where he was made a share holder in the corporation, named Vice President of Original Production and wrote, produced and starred in over 300 pieces of content for the company. Two years later, Austin returned to directing motion pictures under his own shingle The Ford Austin Company. Austin directed over a dozen Low budget horror features including The Curse of Lizzie Borden, Attitude for Destruction and his cult horror comedy classic Dahmer vs Gacy which won many awards for the actor turned director and was released in the Laemmle theater chain. On March 9th, 2011, while in production on seven feature motion pictures, Austin suffered a life changing car accident in Hollywood, California that brought everything to a halt. He spent two weeks in a coma followed by five months at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Doctors gave him a 1% chance of survival and said he would probably never walk again. Defiantly, Austin stayed in process and worked from his hospital bed during his hospital stay. He produced the feature documentary The Right to Love:An American Family with Cassie Jaye and would eventually attend the motion picture's premiere at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in Marin, California. The movie would also become Austin's third Academy Awards qualifying motion picture. When he arrived home from his first of seven hospitalizations, Austin found a copy of Variety on his deck which had a full page ad for another motion picture he was producing before his accident called The Ghostmaker released by Lions Gate Entertainment. Austin relocated to New York City where he had more hospitalizations and surgeries. During his recovery from the procedures, he created, produced and pitched a clip show to Time Warner Cable in Manhattan called The Angry Baby Monkey Short Film Showcase and completed a 26 episode sale that aired in New York City for a year. In 2012, Austin,fully recovered from his injuries, and his amazing wife Lauree Dash returned to work in Los Angeles. He joined The Actors Studio as a Lifetime Member where he studies with Mark Rydel, Lou Antonio, Lisa Richards, Cathleen Leslie, James DiStefano, Allan Miller and his mentor Martin Landau.
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Biography from IMDb.
- February 3, 1971 (55)
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Actor, producer and director, also writer
- 17 on MovieCove · 44 credits in all
What are Ford Austin's films like?
Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Morality.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
A split, not a type: Ironic 1 · Wry 3 · Earnest 5
Light 5 · Serious 2 · Dark 2
A split, not a type: Grounded 5 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 2
Gentle 3 · Charged 4 · Intense 2
Steady 1 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 4
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 2
Slow burn 7 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 7 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 7 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 0
Resolved 7 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
Usually the Hero: 2 of 4 analyzed roles.
- Heroas Ringo in Dahmer vs. Gacy (2010)
- Shadowas Jeffrey Dahmer in Dahmer vs. Gacy (2010)
- Shapeshifteras Sergio in Inhumanity (2017)
- Heroas David Vanowen in Digging to Death (2021)
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Ford Austin's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 14 of their 17 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (8).
Subscription and free streaming for Ford Austin's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
44 credits, 17 with a MovieCove page.
Witchy Ways(2024)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
Cocaine Werewolf(2024)
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films
Rogue Hostage(2021)
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films
Digging to Death(2021)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all filmsNoirland (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Neighbors of the Apocalypse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Heels(2016)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Radical (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Inhumanity(2017)
Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all films
The Amazing Bulk(2012)
Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all films
The Right to Love: An American Family (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
The Ghostmaker(2012)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films
Rat Scratch Fever (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Carnies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
The Auctioneers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Dahmer vs. Gacy(2010)
Midcredits score: 4th percentile of all films
Naked Horror: The Movie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Commute (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Attitude for Destruction (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Gothic Vampires from Hell (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Blood Mask: the Possession of Nicole Lameroux (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Deadly Culture (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
The Curse of Lizzie Borden (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Slaughter Party (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Evil Ever After (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Psychon Invaders (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Bones(2005)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
Channel 101: The Musical (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
The Wright Stuff (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Yacht Rock (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Creepies 2: Las Vegas Attack (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Cerebral Print: The Secret Files (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Dead Things (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films
Family Tree (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Co-Incidence (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Strong Medicine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Fallen(1998)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films
The Wonder Years(1988)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
CHiPs(1977)
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all shows
Saturday Night Live(1975)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all showsBambi Cottages (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 19th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 42 titles, 41 of them dated from 1975 to 2025.
Biggest box office
Rogue Hostage (2021)
Highest rated
The Ghostmaker (2012)
Most popular right now
Rogue Hostage (2021)
Film career
- 2011Screen debut· Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Ford Austin's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 11th percentile, the median of all 12; across their 9 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 9th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th3
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th8
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 17 titles are Divisive.
- Universally Loved1
- Universally Panned1
- Divisive5
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser5
- Mixed4
Reviewers score the acting 47/100 in their films, across 9 reviewed titles; fans 69, detractors 19. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Ford Austin's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Ford Austin work with?
People who share at least 2 of Ford Austin's MovieCove titles; Richard Riehle shares the most, 2.
- Richard RiehleShared titles: Digging to Death (2021), Heels (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Richard Riehle
