Jack Trevor

Jack Trevor
German postcard, 1928-1929
Born	(1893-12-14)14 December 1893 London, England
Died	19 December 1976(1976-12-19) (aged 86) Deal, Kent, England
Other names	Cedric Steane
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1922-1943

Jack Trevor (14 December 1893 – 19 December 1976) (born Anthony Cedric Sebastian Steane) was an English film actor of the silent era and sound era. He appeared in 67 films between 1922 and 1943.

Joined up 1915. Recommended for commission; posted to Wareham, Bovington (Wool), Gallipoli, Egypt, France Summer 1916, the Somme. Temp 2nd Lt 1916. In June 1917, when under orders to return to France after sick leave, he absented himself; and on 15/12/17 he was convicted at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of obtaining jewellery by fraud and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in the second division. Recorder felt sentence was not too severe. He was sent to Wormwood Scrubs. He was cashiered in Dec 1917 and 'the king no longer required his services'. Called up again in March 1918 he went AWOL and was declared a deserter 16 May 1918.

Claiming to have won the Military Cross serving with the Manchester Regiment during World War I, during World War II he made propaganda films for Joseph Goebbels’ ministry, for which he was eventually sentenced to three years’ imprisonment but the sentence was quashed on appeal as he was held to be acting under duress.

Filmography

• Pages of Life (1922)
• The Grass Orphan (1922)
• Petticoat Loose (1922)
• Not for Sale (1924)
• The Venus of Montmartre (1925)
• Den of Iniquity (1925)
• The Second Mother (1925)
• Secrets of a Soul (1926)
• Love is Blind (1926)
• Cab No. 13 (1926)
• The Golden Butterfly (1926)
• Trude (1926)
• The Great Duchess (1926)
• Rhenish Girls and Rhenish Wine (1927)
• The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
• Circle of Lovers (1927)
• The Hunt for the Bride (1927)
• Chance the Idol (1927)
• The Great Unknown (1927)
• Intoxicated Love (1927)
• The Prisoners of Shanghai (1927)
• Nameless Woman (1927)
• The Girl with the Five Zeros (1927)
• The Catwalk (1927)
• The Island of Forbidden Kisses (1927)
• The Devious Path (1928)
• The Countess of Sand (1928)
• Rasputin, the Holy Sinner (1928)
• The Duty to Remain Silent (1928)
• Folly of Love (1928)
• Love's Masquerade (1928)
• Modern Pirates (1928)
• Champagne (1928)
• The Lady and the Chauffeur (1928)
• The Alley Cat (1929)
• Fräulein Else (1929)
• Three Around Edith (1929)
• Anesthesia (1929)
• My Sister and I (1929)
• The White Roses of Ravensberg (1929)
• Bright Eyes (1929)
• Foolishness of His Love (1929)
• The Great Longing (1930)
• Two Worlds (1930)
• The Song of the Nations (1931)
• A Voice Said Goodnight (1932)
• The Five Accursed Gentlemen (1932)
• Lily Christine (1932)
• Hangmen, Women and Soldiers (1935)
• Engel mit kleinen Fehlern (1936)
• Under Blazing Heavens (1936)
• Das schöne Fräulein Schragg (1937)
• Cause for Divorce (1937)
• Tango Notturno (1937)
• Mirror of Life (1938)
• Women for Golden Hill (1938)
• Napoleon Is to Blame for Everything (1938)
• Der Polizeifunk meldet (1939)
• Menschen vom Varieté (1939)
• Der letzte Appell (1939)
• Carl Peters (1941)
• Uncle Kruger (1941)
• My Life for Ireland (1941)
• Rembrandt (1942)
• The Eternal Tone (1943)
• Immensee (1943)

See also

• R v Steane

External links

• Jack Trevor at IMDb
• Central Criminal Court Depositions - CRIM 1/1797