[citation needed] Austin attended Reading College in England and gained theatrical experience via Little Theatre and Drama Shop plays.

[1] Austin filled a business post in Shanghai and on being sent to San Francisco by the company he worked for, he decided to stay in America and take up acting on the stage and later in films.

[citation needed] Beginning in 1919, Austin acted at the Morosco Theatre in Los Angeles for three years.

[1] He appeared in many American films and serials between the 1920s and the 1940s, though the vast majority of his roles were small and uncredited.

He was buried in Pacific View Memorial Park, Corona del Mar, California.