From working as the stunt double for Albert Finney in "Tom Jones"... to his work on "The Avengers," where he was the stunt coordinator and doubled for both Patrick Macnee AND Diana Rigg... to directing American TV series like "Magnum P.I." (12 episodes), "JAG" (7 episodes), "The Love Boat," "Hart to Hart" and "Spenser: For Hire"... Ray Austin had an incredibly wide-ranging career.

His death was confirmed by his website, http://www.raymondaustin.com/ .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Austin_(director)
Raymond Austin (5 December 1932 – 17 May 2023) was a British television and film director, television writer and producer, and stunt performer and actor who worked in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

Life and career
Austin was born in London on 5 December 1932. He started his career as a stunt performer on such films as North by Northwest (1959) and Spartacus (1960). From 1965 to 1967 he served as stunt coordinator on 50 episodes of The Avengers. For The Champions he initially became involved as a second unit director, subsequently rising to the position of full director.

His work as a television director included episodes of The Avengers (1968), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969–70), Space: 1999 (1975–76), The New Avengers (1976–77), and V (1984). He directed 50 of the 88 episodes of the series Zorro, which was filmed in Madrid between 1989 and 1992 for the American ABC Family Channel. He has also directed some made-for-TV films, including The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1983), and some feature films such as Virgin Witch (1972) and House of the Living Dead (1974).

The Guinness world record site states that "In 1965, Dame Diana Rigg (UK) became the first western actress to perform kung fu on Television when the combat choreographers Ray Austin (UK) and Chee Soo (UK/China) worked elements of the martial art into her fight scenes on The Avengers. Certificate presentation was done on The New Paul O'Grady Show."

Personal life and death
Austin was married from 1976 to actress Yasuko Nagazumi, who performed in some of the series he worked on, notably Space: 1999. He later divorced Nagazumi and married British producer and writer Wendy DeVere Knight-Wilton in 1984; they later lived in Earlysville, Virginia.

Austin died at his home in Virginia on 17 May 2023, at the age of 90.

In article <d52f90bb-e396-4fb0-aad2-8973d0fcc758n@googlegroups.com>,
Diner <bwaystars@gmail.com> wrote:

> His work as a television director included episodes of The Avengers (1968),
> Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969–70)

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) was syndicated in the U.S. as My
Partner, the Ghost.