Austin Trevor
Birthday: Born in 1897-10-07 in Belfast, Ireland, UK [now Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK]
Deathday: 1978-01-22
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Interpol Calling
Character: Dr. Martin
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery....
The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC prod...
No Hiding Place
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No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart....
The First Churchills
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The lives of the Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah, from their meeting in 1673 to the duke's death in 1722....
The Main Chance
Character: Judge
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds....
Hancock's Half Hour
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Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own char...
The Third Man
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Quatermass II
Character: Fowler
The serial sees Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group being asked to examine strange meteorite showers. His investigations lead to his uncovering a conspiracy involving alien infiltration at the highest levels of the British Government. As even some of Quatermass's closest colleagues fall victim to the alien influence, he is forced to use his own unsafe rocket prototype, which recently caused a nuclear disaster at an Australian testing range, to prevent the aliens...
Whack-O!
Character: Brigadier Taplow
Whack-O! was a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards, written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and broadcast from 1956 to 1960 and 1971 to 1972. The series ran on the BBC from 1956 to 1960 and from 1971 to 1972. Edwards took the part of Professor James Edwards, M.A., the drunken, gambling, devious, cane-swishing headmaster who tyrannised staff and children at Chiselbury public school. The Edwards character bore more than a passing resemblance to Sergeant Bilko as he tried to swindle th...
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Lord Edgware Dies
Character: Hercule Poirot
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?...
Black Coffee
Character: Hercule Poirot
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the mos...
Alibi
Character: Hercule Poirot
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house....
Father Brown
Character: The Herald
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul....
Night Train to Munich
Character: Capt. Prada
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him....
As You Like It
Character: Le Beau
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves....
Champagne Charlie
Character: The Duke
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention....
The Court Martial of Major Keller
Character: Lt. Gen. Sir Harold Power
Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear, pressure and duty have upon a soldier. Did the Major covet the Colonel's wife? Was the Major ambitious and kill Winch to secure a promotion? Or had the Colonel cracked under the pressure of an illustrious battle career? To prove his innocence Major Kelle...
Death at Broadcasting House
Character: Leopold Dryden
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion....
The Man from Chicago
Character: Detective-Inspector Drew
'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)...
Dangerous Exile
Character: Mr. Petitval
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors....
Royal Cavalcade
Character: Capt. Oates
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performanc...
Dusty Ermine
Character: Swiss Hotelier-Gang Leader
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}...
Konga
Character: Dean Foster
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!...
The Broken Melody
Character: Pierre Falaise
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it....
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Character: Ralston
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life....
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Character: Sir John Kelly (uncredited)
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun....
Horrors of the Black Museum
Character: Commissioner Wayne
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London....
Escape!
Character: The Vicar
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law....
The Silent Passenger
Character: Inspector Parker
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?...
To Paris with Love
Character: Leon de Colville
A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love....
The Beloved Vagabond
Character: Count de Verneuil
Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!...
Knight Without Armour
Character: Col. Adraxine
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks....
Under Your Hat
Character: Boris Vladimir
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s....
Abandon Ship
Character: Edward Wilton
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive....
The W Plan
Character: Captain of Military Police
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels....
The Big Blockade
Character: U-boat Captain
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war....
The Red Shoes
Character: Prof. Palmer
In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences....
Mimi
Character: Lamotte
A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought....
Tons of Trouble
Character: Sir Hervey Shaw
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."...
A Night in Montmartre
Character: Paul deLisle
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer....
The Seventh Survivor
Character: Captain Hartzmann
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity....
The Briggs Family
Character: John Smith
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car...
At the Villa Rose
Character: Inspector Hanaud
Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium....
Inside the Room
Character: Pierre Santos
A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman....
Le Vagabond bien-aimé
Character: Count de Verneuil
Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears....
Dark Journey
Character: Dr. Muller
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair....
So Long at the Fair
Character: Police Commissaire
Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the she gets up in the morning she finds her brother and his room have disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother....
Lisbon Story
Character: Major Lutzen
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist....
The Lion Has Wings
Character: Schulemberg - German Air Chief of Staff
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis....
The New Lot
Character: Soldier Talking to Corporal
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit....
On Secret Service
Character: Captain Larco
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to ...
The Alphabet Murders
Character: Judson
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials....
Sabotage
Character: Monocle Man (uncredited)
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life....
The Naked Truth
Character: Minister with Heart Attack (uncredited)
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose......
Never Back Losers
Character: Col. Warburton
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures....
Rembrandt
Character: Marquis de Grand Coeur
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons....
Surprise Package
Character: Count Krimbi, Aide to King Pavel II
Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor....
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Character: Secretary General
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations....
Anna Karenina
Character: Col. Vronsky
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet....
The Young Mr. Pitt
Character: French Registrar
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24....
Law and Disorder
Character: Heinreks
On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast....
Parisian Life
Character: Don Joâo
A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's 'La vie parisienne' which was playing at the time. Thirty five years later, he returns with his son and granddaughter, who is engaged to a young Frenchman. But Mendoza's puritanical son forbids the marriage. Mendoza and the actress's friends conspire to change his mind and convert him to 'Parisian life.'...