Austin Trevor

Austin Trevor (October 7, 1897 - January 22, 1978) was a Belfast born actor who had a long career in British films and television.

He was the first actor to play Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot on screen in three British films during the early 1930's: 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 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)
• Vagabond bien-aimé, Le (1936)
• Parisian Life (1936)
• Vie parisienne, La (1936)
• The Beloved Vagabond (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)
• Under Your Hat (1940)
• The Big Blockade (1940)
• Law and Disorder (1940)
• Night Train to Munich (1940)
• The Briggs Family (1940)
• The Seventh Survivor (1941)
• 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)
• The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
• The Court Martial of Major Keller (1961)
• The Alphabet Murders (1965)

External links

• Austin trevor at the Internet Movie Database

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