Austin Trevor Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Austin Trevor Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Claude Austin Trevor Schilsky (7 October 1897 â€" 22 January 1978) was

a Northern Irish actor who had a long career in film and television.He

played the parson in John Galsworthy's Escape at the world premiere in

London's West End in 1926 and was the only member of the cast to

transfer to New York City for the Broadway production a year later. He

was the first actor to play Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot

on screen in three British films during the early 1930s: 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 stated that he only got the Poirot role

because he could speak with a French accent.During the 1960s he worked

largely in television, appearing in series such as The First

Churchills in which he played Lord Halifax. He appeared in an episode

of the legal drama The Main Chance.He died in Bury St. Edmunds,

Suffolk.
Austin Trevor Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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