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Austin Trevor is a Actor British born on 7 october 1897 at Belfast (United-kingdom)
Claude Austin Trevor (7 October 1897 - 22 January 1978) was a Northern Irish actor who had a long career in film and television.
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.
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.
He died in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Austin Trevor est le premier à incarner à l'écran le célèbre détective belge Hercule Poirot d'Agatha Christie dans trois films britanniques des années 30 : Alibi (1931), Black Coffee (1931) et Lord Edgware Dies (1934). Selon lui, il aurait été choisi par les producteurs uniquement pour sa capacité de parler anglais avec un fort accent français.
Il est marié à Violet Clowes.
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Birth name Claude Austin Trevor
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 7 october 1897 at Belfast (United-kingdom)
Death 22 january 1978 (at 80 years) at Bury St Edmunds (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 7 october 1897 at Belfast (United-kingdom)
Death 22 january 1978 (at 80 years) at Bury St Edmunds (United-kingdom)
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.
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.
He died in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
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Austin Trevor nait à Belfast en Irlande du Nord mais suit une éducation en Suisse. Après avoir combattu durant la Première Guerre mondiale, il monte sur scène aux États-Unis.Austin Trevor est le premier à incarner à l'écran le célèbre détective belge Hercule Poirot d'Agatha Christie dans trois films britanniques des années 30 : Alibi (1931), Black Coffee (1931) et Lord Edgware Dies (1934). Selon lui, il aurait été choisi par les producteurs uniquement pour sa capacité de parler anglais avec un fort accent français.
Il est marié à Violet Clowes.
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The Alphabet Murders (1965)
, 1h30Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley, Maurice Denham, Sheila Allen, Drewe Henley
Roles Judson
Rating53%
Albert Aachen, a clown with a unique diving act, is found dead, the murder weapon a poison dart. When a woman named Betty Barnard becomes the next victim, detective Hercule Poirot suspects that Sir Carmichael Clarke could be in grave danger.
, 1h38Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Environmental films, Films about journalists, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd, Renée Asherson, Michael Goodliffe, Bernard Braden
Roles Sir John Kelly (uncredited)
Rating71%
A lone man walks through the sweltering streets of a deserted London. The film then goes back several months. Peter Stenning (Judd) was an up-and-coming journalist with the Daily Express but a messy divorce has thrown his life into disarray. His Editor (Christiansen) has begun giving him lousy assignments. He begins drinking too much. (One of his lines is, "Alcoholics of the press, unite!") Stenning's only friend, Bill Maguire (McKern), is a veteran Fleet Street reporter who offers him encouragement and occasionally covers for him by writing his copy.
, 1h9Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Laurence Payne, Susan Stephen, Ralph Michael, Richard Caldicot, Basil Dignam, Austin Trevor
Roles Lt. Gen. Sir Harold Power
Rating59%
Konga (1961)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Films about apes, Giant monster films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films
Actors Michael Gough, Austin Trevor, Jack Watson, George Pastell, Vanda Godsell, Grace Arnold
Roles Dean Foster
Rating45%
British botanist Dr. Charles Decker (Michael Gough) goes insane after he discovers a serum that turns his chimpanzee subject Konga into a ferocious gorilla-sized ape. To further his hideous experiments, Dr. Charles Decker mesmerizes the chimp and sends it to London to kill all his former enemies. Among his targets is Dean Foster (Austin Trevor) Professor Tagore (George Pastell) and Bob Kenton (Jess Conrad), the lover of Sandra Banks (Claire Gordon), the woman the doctor wants for himself.
Never Back Losers (1961)
, 1h1Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Jack Hedley, Patrick Magee, Derek Francis, Richard Warner, Austin Trevor, Harry Locke
Roles Col. Warburton
Rating62%
Horse racing jockey Wally Sanders loses a race, crashes his car, and a claim is made on his insurance. Jim Matthews, a shrewd insurance investigator, follows up the company's suspicion of foul play and finds himself deep in a web of gambling and corruption surrounding the racetrack.
Surprise Package (1960)
, 1h40Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Heist films
Actors Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward, George Coulouris, Eric Pohlmann, Warren Mitchell
Roles Count Krimbi, Aide to King Pavel II
Rating56%
Nico March (Yul Brynner) is being deported by the U.S. government. Not wanting his money confiscated, he orders accomplice Johnny (Bill Nagy) to hide it for now while also keeping an eye on Nico's longtime girlfriend, Gabby Rogers (Mitzi Gaynor).
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
, 1h35Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Michael Gough, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen, Beatrice Varley, Austin Trevor, W. Howard Greene
Roles Commissioner Wayne
Rating58%
Frustrated thriller writer Edmond Bancroft (Michael Gough) owns a private "black museum" of torture instruments. He hypnotises his assistant Rick (Graham Curnow) to commit increasingly horrific crimes for Bancroft to write about.
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
, 1h28Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Transport films
Actors Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Ian Bannen, Thorley Walters, Raymond Huntley
Roles Secretary General
Rating61%
A title sequence prologue details Britain's accidental acquisition of the island Gaillardia during the seventeenth century, the feud between two scions of its royal house and Britain's granting the island self-rule in 1916. However, when independence was granted, the Foreign Office (F.O.) failed to recall its ambassador, who is still there forty years later. He writes a letter to the F.O. informing them of Russian moves to annex the island's mineral wealth.
Abandon Ship (1957)
, 1h37Directed by Richard Sale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, Stephen Boyd, Moira Lister, Marie Lohr
Roles Edward Wilton
Rating74%
The luxury liner SS Crescent Star sinks in seven minutes after striking a rogue mine in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, taking with her nearly all of the 1156 people on board. Twenty-seven of the survivors converge on a single lifeboat designed to accommodate only nine. The dying captain passes command to executive officer Alec Holmes (Tyrone Power). Holmes then learns from "Sparks" Clary (John Stratton), the ship's radio operator, that both transmitters were destroyed before a call for help could be sent. Holmes decides to try to reach the nearest land, Africa, 1500 miles away.
The Naked Truth (1957)
, 1h31Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price, Joan Sims
Roles Minister with Heart Attack (uncredited)
Rating67%
Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) is a blackmailer who threatens to publish embarrassing secrets in his magazine The Naked Truth. After attempting to blackmail a famous scientist (who commits suicide), and an MP (who suffers a heart attack in parliament, and probably succumbs), his latest targets are Lord Henry Mayley (Terry-Thomas), television host Sonny MacGregor (Peter Sellers), writer Flora Ransom (Peggy Mount), and model Melissa Right (Shirley Eaton).
Dangerous Exile (1957)
, 1h31Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, French Revolution films
Actors Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Keith Michell, Richard O'Sullivan, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie
Roles Mr. Petitval
Rating55%
The Duke Philippe de Beauvais smuggles his own son into the prison cell where Louis XVII is kept. Thus Louis XVII can escape unnoticed to England. Unfortunately the aerostat, steered by Duke Philippe de Beauvais, lands accidentally on a remote island. There an American spinster, Virginia Traill, takes care of the strange child. She finds the dauphin profoundly traumatised and not interested in becoming a king. Meanwhile Louis' uncle in Vienna has declared himself the new French king. In order to safeguard his claim on the throne, he sends assassins who shall murder the dauphin. Being unaware of the exchange, he has Richard de Beauvais killed. But now the dauphin's torturers recognise they have been deceived. Informed by a message of an English spy they send a ship to the island where the real dauphin hides. They attack the house of Virginia Traill and stop at nothing to detect the dauphin's hiding-place.
Tons of Trouble (1956)
Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Genres Comedy
Actors Richard Hearne, William Hartnell, Austin Trevor, Joan Marion, Ralph Truman, Ronald Adam
Roles Sir Hervey Shaw
Rating58%
To Paris with Love (1955)
, 1h18Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Jacques François, Austin Trevor, Élina Labourdette, Claude Romain
Roles Leon de Colville
Rating55%
Un noble britannique décidé d'emmener son fils à Paris, dans le but de lui trouver une femme. Ce dernier va en profiter pour faire la même chose pour son père. Mais tout ne va pas se passer comme prévu.
Father Brown (1954)
, 1h31Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Sid James
Roles The Herald
Rating66%
Father Brown tries to transport an historically important cross to Rome engaging in battles of wits and faith with a thief and pursuing policeman. The thief, named Flambeau (Finch), is a master of disguise and is elusive, as Father Brown pursues him and tries to convince him to abandon his criminal career.
So Long at the Fair (1950)
, 1h26Directed by Terence Fisher, Antony Darnborough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Jean Simmons, David Tomlinson, Honor Blackman, Cathleen Nesbitt, Zena Marshall
Roles Police Commissaire
Rating71%
In 1889, young Englishwoman Vicky Barton (Jean Simmons) and her brother Johnny (David Tomlinson) arrive in Paris to see the Exposition Universelle. This is Vicky's first time in Paris, and after checking into a hotel, she drags her tired brother to dinner and the famous Moulin Rouge. She finally retires for the night, while Johnny has a late-night drink. When English painter George Hathaway (Dirk Bogarde) drops off his girlfriend, Rhoda O'Donovan (Honor Blackman), and her mother (Betty Warren) at the hotel, he asks Johnny for change for a 100 franc note to pay a carriage driver; Johnny loans him 50 francs and gives him his name and room number.