Gary Austin, who founded the Los Angeles improv company the Groundlings — a troupe that launched the careers of Paul Reubens, Will Ferrell, Lisa Kudrow and Melissa McCarthy — died Saturday at ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- After a long battle with cancer, Gary Austin, the founder of Los Angeles' The Groundlings Theatre, died Saturday. Some of his students gathered at the theatre to say goodbye that ...

Gary Austin Hadlock, 80 years old, died from cancer on April 26, 2023, in Billings at the Springs at Grand Park. Gary was born July 13, 1942, in Mesa, Arizona, to Paul Austin and Cleo (nee Ellsworth) ...

Gary Austin, the founder of the influential improvisational theater troupe The Groundlings, died on Saturday at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles following a long illness. He was 75. Austin had been ...

Two decades-spanning generations of Saturday Night Live alums offered tributes to Gary Austin, the founder of the wildly influential improvisational theater company The Groundlings. Austin, who had ...

Gary Austin, who helped change the shape of American comedy as the founder and artistic director of the influential improvisational theater company the Groundlings, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He ...

The Oklahoma native formed the widely renowned improvisational comedy group in 1974, which launched the careers of many comedic actors. By THR Staff Gary Austin, founder of the improv group The ...

Gary Austin, who created and led one of improvisational theater's most influential troupes, the Groundlings, died Saturday at the age of 75 of cancer. Austin was a writer, director, and musical ...

Gary Austin, the founder of the influential improvisational theater troupe The Groundlings, died on Saturday at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles following a long illness. He was 75. Austin had been ...