{{distinguish|text = the English historian Hugh Trevor-Roper}} {{Short description|American actor (1903–1933)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Hugh Trevor | image = Hugh Trevor CM1029.jpg | caption = Trevor in 1929 | birth_date = {{birth date|1903|10|28}} | birth_place = Yonkers, New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1933|11|10|1903|10|28}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | birth_name = Hugh Trevor-Thomas | occupation = Actor | spouse = | years_active = 1927–1933 }}
'''Hugh Trevor''' (born '''Hugh Trevor-Thomas'''; October 28, 1903 – November 10, 1933) was an American actor whose short career began at the very end of the silent era in 1927. He would appear in nineteen films in the scant six years during which he was active. He did not fare well with the advent of talking pictures, and retired from the industry in 1931. His life was cut short when he unexpectedly died from complications following appendectomy surgery in 1933.
==Early life== Trevor was born on October 28, 1903, in Yonkers, New York.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://people.theiapolis.com/actor-H5DX/hugh-trevor/ | publisher=Theiapolis.com | title=Hugh Trevor | accessdate=September 28, 2014}}</ref> He studied at Harvard University.<ref name=tcm1>{{cite web | url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/194067%7C71807/hugh-trevor#biography | publisher=Turner Classic Movies | title=The Stars of Hollywood Forever | last=Scott | first=Tony | date=March 13, 2006 | access-date=September 28, 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140928173631/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/194067%7C71807/Hugh-Trevor/biography.html | archive-date=September 28, 2014}}</ref> After college, he began a successful insurance business. In 1925, through his uncle, producer William LeBaron,<ref name=Photoplay /> he went to sell an insurance policy to Richard Dix,<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Motion Picture Magazine | title=The Answer Man | date=January 1931 | page=115 | url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpicture1923040chic#page/114/mode/2up/search/%22The+Queen's+Husband%22}}</ref> the film star. Dix was impressed by Trevor, and arranged for him to screen test, which Dix himself directed.<ref name=Fandango>{{cite web | url=http://www.fandango.com/hughtrevor/biography/p71762 | publisher=Fandango.com | title=Hugh Trevor Biography | accessdate=September 28, 2014 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140928174421/http://www.fandango.com/hughtrevor/biography/p71762 | archivedate=September 28, 2014}}</ref>
==Film career== Subsequent to his screen test, Trevor made his film debut in the 1927 film, ''Ranger of the North'', where he played second fiddle to the dog star, Ranger. Although he would work for several studios, the bulk of his films were produced by F.B.O. Productions (FBO – also known as FBO Pictures Corporation), and later by RKO Radio Pictures, after FBO was merged with RCA to form RKO. While he never worked with Dix, he did work with other famous film figures of that era, including Mary Astor, Bryant Washburn, Chester Conklin, Noah Beery, the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey), Betty Compson, and Lowell Sherman.<ref name=AFIF /> In 1929, Trevor was romantically linked with actress Aileen Pringle, following their working together on the film ''Beau Broadway'' the prior year.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Photoplay | title=Hollywood – A Manless Town | date=September 1929 | page=42 | url=https://archive.org/stream/photoplay3637movi#page/n337/mode/2up/search/%22Hugh+Trevor%22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Photoplay | title=Gossip of all the Studios | date=November 1929 | page=105 | url=https://archive.org/stream/photoplay3637movi#page/n701/mode/2up/search/%22Hugh+Trevor%22}}</ref> During his film career he was also romantically linked with another co-star, Betty Compson, who at one point was considering marrying him (after her divorce from James Cruze).<ref name=Photoplay>{{cite news | newspaper=Photoplay | title=Cal York's Monthly Broadcast from Hollywood | date=May 1931 | page=80 | url=https://archive.org/stream/photo40chic#page/n647/mode/2up/search/%22Hugh+Trevor%22}} Cal York was a pseudonym, an amalgam of California and New York.</ref><ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Motion Picture News | title=They say that – Quaint Quips | date=September 20, 1930 | page=43 | url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpic42moti#page/n1073/mode/2up/search/%22Hugh+Trevor%22}}</ref>
[[File:Hugh_Trevor.jpg|thumb|right|Trevor in the 1930 film, ''The Pay-Off'']] After the creation of RKO, Trevor would also work with his relative, William LeBaron.<ref name=AFIF>{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&retailCheck=&Type=PN&CatID=DATABIN_CAST&ID=71807&AN_ID=&searchedFor=Hugh_Trevor_ | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate=September 28, 2014 | title=Hugh Trevor filmography}}</ref> As the film industry transitioned into sound pictures, studios would create films in both sound and silent versions. Trevor's film, ''Love in the Desert'', was one such film, and he and his co-star, Olive Borden, were featured in ''Photoplay'' magazine highlighting the new "Photophone" sound process.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Photoplay | title=Hello, Readers! | date=October 1929 | page=72 | url=https://archive.org/stream/photoplay3637movi#page/n367/mode/2up/search/%22Hugh+Trevor%22}}</ref> However, with the onset of talking pictures, his career began to fade,<ref name=Fandango /> and he retired from the film industry in 1931,<ref name=tcm1 /> his last film being RKO's ''The Royal Bed''.<ref name=AFIF />
==Later career and Death== After leaving films, he remained in Los Angeles, returning to the insurance industry, where he went into partnership with James Ryan, specialising in policies to those in the film industry.<ref name=tcm1 /> In 1933, less than two weeks after his thirtieth birthday, he suffered from appendicitis. He died of complications from the resulting appendectomy, and was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.{{Citation needed |date=June 2022}}
==Filmography== (as per AFI's database)<ref name=AFIF /> {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Silent (S)/Talkie (T) ! Notes |- | 1927 | ''Ranger of the North'' | Bob Fleming | S | '''Lost''' film |- | rowspan=9 | 1928 | ''Beau Broadway'' | Killer Gordon | S | '''Lost''' film |- | ''Dry Martini'' | Bobbie Duncan | S | '''Lost''' film |- | ''Her Summer Hero'' | Kenneth Holmes | S | '''Lost''' film |- | ''Hey Rube!'' | String | S | '''Lost''' film |- | ''The Pinto Kid'' | Dan Logan | S | '''Lost''' film |- | ''Red Lips'' | "Spike" Blair | S | '''Lost''' film |- | ''Skinner's Big Idea'' | Jack McLaughlin | S | '''Lost''' film |- | ''Taxi 13'' | Dan Regan | S | |- | ''Wallflowers'' | Rufus | S | '''Lost''' film |- | rowspan=3 | 1929 | ''Love in the Desert'' | Bob Winslow | S & T | |- | ''Night Parade'' | Bobby Murray | T | |- | ''{{sortname|The|Very Idea|The Very Idea}}'' | Joe Garvin | T | |- | rowspan=5 | 1930 | ''Conspiracy'' | John Howell | T | |- | ''{{sortname|The|Cuckoos|The Cuckoos (1930 film)}}'' | Billy | T | |- | ''Half Shot at Sunrise'' | Lieut. Jim Reed | T | |- | ''Midnight Mystery'' | Gregory Sloane | T | |- | ''{{sortname|The|Pay-Off|The Pay-Off (1930 film)}}'' | Rocky | T | |- | 1931 | ''{{sortname|The|Royal Bed|The Royal Bed}}'' | Crown Prince William | T | |}
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==External links== {{commons category|Hugh Trevor}} * {{IMDb name|0872463}} * {{Tcmdb name}}{{dead link|date=October 2021}}
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