Allan Trevor
Allan Trevor (1923 - 1969) was an Australian actor, writer and producer.
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 did various jobs, including police cadet, shop assistant and salesman, before he began to study acting in Perth in 1941.
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.[1]
He finally concentrated on writing for television and became the line producer for the majority of Crawford's popular 1967 spy series Hunter, in which he also appeared occasionally as an actor.
Trevor died suddenly in Melbourne at the end of 1969, after successfully launching the long-running police series Division 4.[2] 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 duties on Division 4 at the encouragement of Hector Crawford.
Select credits
- The Adventures of Long John Silver (1955) - actor
- Three in One (1957) - actor
- Armchair Theatre (1960) - actor
- The Patriots (1962) - actor
- Tribunal (1963) - actor
- The Angry General (1965) - writer
- The Man Who Saw It (1966) - writer
- Topaze (1966) - actor
- Homicide (1966–67) - actor
- Contrabandits (1967) - writer
- Slow Poison (1967) - writer[3]
- Hunter (1967–69) - producer, actor
- Division 4 (1969–70) -producer, actor
References
- ^ "Actor Was Farm Boy". Sydney Morning Herald. 21 May 1962. p. 13.
- ^ "Farewell". Sydney Morning Herald. 11 November 1969. p. 6.
- ^ "New series on 3". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 31 July 1967. p. 13. Retrieved 12 February 2020 – via Trove.
External links
- Allan Trevor at IMDb
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