Austin Trevor
Austin Trevor | |
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in Death at Broadcasting House (1934) | |
Born |
Claude Austin Trevor[1][2] October 7, 1897 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Died |
January 22, 1978 80) Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England | (aged
Years active | 1930–1969 |
Claude Austin Trevor (7 October 1897 – 22 January 1978) was a Northern Irish actor who had a long career in film and television.[3]
He played the parson in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape. He was the first actor to play Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot on screen in three British films during the early 1930s: Alibi (1931), Black Coffee (1931) and Lord Edgware Dies (1934). He subsequently turned up in a character part in a later Poirot adaptation The Alphabet Murders in 1965. He stated that he only got the Poirot role because he could speak with a French accent.[4][5]
During the 1960s he worked largely in television, appearing in series such as The First Churchills in which he played Lord Halifax. He appeared in an episode of the legal drama The Main Chance.[3][6]
He died in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Filmography
- At the Villa Rose (1930)
- The W Plan (1930)
- Escape (1930)
- The Man from Chicago (1930)
- Alibi (1931)
- Night in Montmartre (1931)
- Black Coffee (1931)
- A Safe Proposition (1932)
- The Crooked Lady (1932)
- The Chinese Puzzle (1932)
- On Secret Service (1933)
- Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
- The Broken Melody (1934)
- Death at Broadcasting House (1934)
- Mimi (1935)
- Inside the Room (1935)
- Royal Cavalcade (1935)
- The Silent Passenger (1935)
- The Beloved Vagabond (1936)
- La Vie parisienne/Parisian Life (1936)
- As You Like It (1936)
- Dusty Ermine (1936)
- Rembrandt (1936)
- Sabotage (1936)
- Dark Journey (1937)
- Knight Without Armour (1937)
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- The Lion Has Wings (1939)
- The Followers, 1939 television film of the play by Harold Brighouse
- Under Your Hat (1940)
- Law and Disorder (1940)
- Night Train to Munich (1940)
- The Briggs Family (1940)
- The Seventh Survivor (1941)
- The Big Blockade (1942)
- The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
- The New Lot (1943)
- Heaven Is Round the Corner (1944)
- Champagne Charlie (1944)
- Lisbon Story (1946)
- Anna Karenina (1948)
- The Red Shoes (1948)
- So Long at the Fair (1950)
- Father Brown (1954)
- To Paris with Love (1955)
- Tons of Trouble (1956)
- Dangerous Exile (1957)
- Seven Waves Away (1957)
- The Naked Truth (1957)
- Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
- Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
- Konga (1961)
- Never Back Losers (1961)
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
- The Court Martial of Major Keller (1961)
- The Alphabet Murders (1965)
References
- ↑ Mark Campbell (2015). Agatha Christie: The Books, the Films and the Television Shows featuring Poirot, Miss Marple and More. Oldcastle Books. ISBN 978-1843444244.
- ↑ Adrian Room (2010). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins (fifth ed.). McFarland. p. 481. ISBN 978-0786457632.
- 1 2 "Austin Trevor". BFI.
- ↑ Hal Erickson. "Austin Trevor - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ↑ "Austin Trevor". TVGuide.com.
- ↑ "Body and Soul (1969)". BFI.