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Austin Trevor
in Death at Broadcasting House (1934)
Born
Claude Austin Trevor Schilsky[1][2]
(1897-10-07)7 October 1897
Belfast, Ireland
Died
22 January 1978(1978-01-22) (aged 80)
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Years active
1930–1969
Claude Austin Trevor Schilsky (7 October 1897 – 22 January 1978) was an Irish actor who had a long career in film and television.[3]
He played the parson in John Galsworthy's Escape at the world premiere in London's West End in 1926 and was the only member of the cast to transfer to New York City for the Broadway production a year later.[4][5] He played Captain August Lutte in Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet during the long first run of the show in the West End from 1929 to 1931. 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.[6] He stated that he only got the Poirot role because he could speak with a French accent.[7][8]
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][9]
He died in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
^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.
^ ab"Austin Trevor". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012.
Claude AustinTrevor Schilsky (7 October 1897 – 22 January 1978) was an Irish actor who had a long career in film and television. He played the parson...
portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including AustinTrevor, John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall...
AustinTrevor Alibi (1931) Black Coffee (1931) Lord Edgware Dies (1934) Peter Ustinov Death on the Nile (1978) Evil Under the Sun (1982) Thirteen at Dinner...
April 1931, by Twickenham Film Studios and produced by Julius S. Hagan. AustinTrevor played Poirot, a role he reprised later that year in the film adaptation...
AustinTrevor Alibi (1931) Black Coffee (1931) Lord Edgware Dies (1934) Peter Ustinov Death on the Nile (1978) Evil Under the Sun (1982) Thirteen at Dinner...
Wattis as Wolf David Lodge as Sergeant Patrick Newell as Cracknell AustinTrevor as Judson Windsor Davies as Dragbot Drewe Henley as Bowling Alley Attendant...
AustinTrevor Alibi (1931) Black Coffee (1931) Lord Edgware Dies (1934) Peter Ustinov Death on the Nile (1978) Evil Under the Sun (1982) Thirteen at Dinner...
Henry Edwards for Real Art Productions. The film was the third to star AustinTrevor in the role of Poirot after his appearances in Alibi and Black Coffee...
AustinTrevor Alibi (1931) Black Coffee (1931) Lord Edgware Dies (1934) Peter Ustinov Death on the Nile (1978) Evil Under the Sun (1982) Thirteen at Dinner...
silent drama film Escape! (film), a 1930 British crime film starring AustinTrevor and Edna Best Escape (1940 film), starring Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer...
AustinTrevor Alibi (1931) Black Coffee (1931) Lord Edgware Dies (1934) Peter Ustinov Death on the Nile (1978) Evil Under the Sun (1982) Thirteen at Dinner...
Culver as Roberts Eliot Makeham as Schwab Raymond Huntley as Kampenfeldt AustinTrevor as Capt. Prada Kenneth Kent as Controller C. V. France as Admiral Hassinger...
Horace Hodges, Franklin Dyall, Hugh Williams, Reginald Purdell and AustinTrevor. It was based on a play by Miles Malleson. It was shot at Twickenham...
killing the two passengers. Vicky tries the French police commissaire (AustinTrevor). He questions Madame Hervé and her brother, but can find nothing amiss...
Followers, a 1939 television film of the play by Harold Brighouse, with AustinTrevor, Marjorie Mars, Marjorie Lane "Follower" (short story), a 1990 story...
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