Allan Trevor

{{Short description|Australian actor, writer and producer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Allan Trevor''' (1923 - 1969) was an Australian actor, writer and producer.

==Early life== He worked on the land for nearly six years but changed careers when he realised he would not earn enough money to buy his own farm. He undertook various other jobs, including police cadet, shop assistant and salesman, before he began to study acting in Perth in 1941.

==Career== Trevor moved to Sydney in 1947 and became one of the leading radio actors in the city, appearing in more than 500 radio plays and serials. He won the Macquarie Acting Award for Best Actor.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Actor Was Farm Boy|date= May 21, 1962|page=13}}</ref>

He finally concentrated on writing for television and became the line producer for the majority of [[Crawford Productions|Crawford's]] popular 1967 spy series ''[[Hunter (1967 Australian TV series)|Hunter]]'', in which he also appeared occasionally as an actor.

He also launched the long-running police series ''[[Division 4]]''.

==Death== Trevor died suddenly in Melbourne at the end of 1969, after the launch of ''[[Division 4]]''.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Farewell|date= November 11, 1969|page=6}}</ref> At the time of his death, he was married to the award-winning television producer, Marie Trevor (born [[Brisbane, Queensland]], 1922 - 7 June 2000), who stepped into his producing duties on ''[[Division 4]]'' at the encouragement of [[Hector Crawford]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bazzani |first=Rozzi |title=Hector : the story of Hector Crawford and Crawford Productions |publisher=Arcadia |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-925003-73-4 |location=North Melbourne, Vic |pages=141 |language=en |oclc=930045883}}</ref>

==Acting credits==

===Television=== *''[[The Adventures of Long John Silver]]'' (1955) *''[[Armchair Theatre]]'' (1960) * ''[[The Patriots (TV series)|The Patriots]]'' (1962) as [[Governor Ralph Darling]] *''[[Tribunal (TV series)|Tribunal]]'' (1963) *''[[Australian Playhouse]]'' - "Across the Bridge"<ref name="across">{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|title=Forgotten Australian TV Plays: A Stay at Home and Across the Bridge|access-date=9 August 2024|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-tv-plays-a-stay-at-home-and-across-the-bridge/|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|date=2021}}</ref> *''[[Homicide (Australian TV series)|Homicide]]'' (1966–67) *''[[Hunter (1967 TV series)|Hunter]]'' (1967–69) *''[[Division 4]]'' (1969–70)

===Film=== * ''[[Getting Along with the Government]]'' (1966, TV film) *''[[Three in One (film)|Three in One]]'' (1957, anthology film) as Preacher * ''[[Topaze (1966 film)|Topaze]]'' (1966, TV film) as Castel-Benac

===Stage=== * ''[[The Break (play)|The Break (1962)]]'' at Union Theatre, Sydney with [[Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust]]

===Radio Plays=== * ''[[The Explorers (play)|The Explorers]]'' (1952) - Wills * ''[[Black Lightning (radio serial)|Black Lightning]]'' (1952) - Max Leader

==Writer / Producer credits== * ''[[The Angry General]]'' (1965) - writer *''[[The Man Who Saw It]]'' (1966) - writer * ''[[Slow Poison (Australian Playhouse)|Slow Poison]]'' (1967) - writer<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106969496 |title=New series on 3 |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=31 July 1967 |access-date=12 February 2020 |page=13 |via=Trove }}</ref> * ''[[Contrabandits]]'' (1967) - writer * ''[[Hunter (1967 TV series)|Hunter]]'' (1967–69) - producer *''[[Division 4]]'' (1969–70) -producer

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|1456778}}

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