---
name: "Jerry Austin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jerry-austin"
fi1m_id: "jerry-austin"
imdb_id: "nm0042424"
tmdb_id: 119306
roles: []
born: "20 July 1892"
died: "15 October 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T01:08:33.096408+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jerry Austin

## Identity

Jerry Austin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jerry-austin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jerry-austin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0042424
- **TMDB ID:** 119306
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042424/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119306

Actor. Born 20 July 1892 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. Died 15 October 1976.

## Details

- **Born:** 20 July 1892, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
- **Died:** 15 October 1976
- **Also known as:** Jerry Albru, Jerry Albro
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042424/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119306

## Biography

Jerry Austin (born Jerry Albro) was an American actor and vaudeville performer. He was born on 20 July 1892 in Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), and stood 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) tall. He was often billed as “Little Jerry” and appeared in stage productions including *Clair de Lune* (1921) with John and Ethel Barrymore and the Broadway play *Here Come the Clowns* (1938) as Major Armstrong.

Austin’s film credits include the uncredited role of the Knife-Throwing Dwarf in *Freaks* (1932), Cupidon in *Saratoga Trunk* (1945), Don Sebastian in *Adventures of Don Juan* (1948), the Grocer in *The Lovable Cheat* (1949), and an uncredited Jester in *Samson and Delilah* (1949). He also appeared as Tobo in the 1949 series *Life of St. Paul* and made a television appearance on *Mohawk Showroom* in 1950. He died on 15 October 1976 in Los Angeles County, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, findagrave.com, playbill.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Freaks* (1932), Fi1m 79, as Knife-Throwing Dwarf (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/freaks.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Lovable Cheat* (1949), as Grocer
- *Life of St. Paul* (1949), as Tobo
- *Adventures of Don Juan* (1948), as Don Sebastian
- *Life of St. Paul* (1948), series, as Tobo
- *Saratoga Trunk* (1945), as Cupidon
- *Freaks* (1932), as Knife-Throwing Dwarf (uncredited) — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/freaks.md)

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