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An alumnus of Yale University. Began a lifelong association in 1957 with the Williamstown Festival Theatre in Massachusetts. Met actress/wife Katina Commings a year later while they were both interns there. Years later she appeared in the Broadway production of "The Runner Stumbles" which Austin directed. In the 1970s he joined the Steppenwolf company as an actor and director. The company also produced a few of his plays. In the early 1990s, Austin inspired the then doorman of his building, Shane Perez, to try his hand at writing. Perez took his advice and began tooling a drama which he hoped Pendleton would one day star in. That dream became a reality when his script for Men of Means (1999) was eventually purchased and produced. Was considered for the role of Fredo Corelone in The Godfather (1972). He was nominated for a 1980 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for "Say Goodnight, Gracie" at the Travel Light Productions Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.