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Allan Trevor

1923 – 1969

Australian actor, writer and producer

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Lived 1923 – 1969 (aged 45–46). Allan Trevor was an Australian screenwriter, actor and television producer.

Allan Trevor (1923 - 1969) was an Australian actor, writer and producer.

Early life 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 undertook various other jobs, including police cadet, shop assistant and salesman, before he began to study acting in Perth in 1941.

Career 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.

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.

He also launched the long-running police series Division 4.

Death Trevor died suddenly in Melbourne at the end of 1969, after the launch of Division 4. 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 producing duties on Division 4 at the encouragement of Hector Crawford.

Acting credits

Television The Adventures of Long John Silver (1955) Armchair Theatre (1960) The Patriots (1962) as Governor Ralph Darling Tribunal (1963) Australian Playhouse - "Across the Bridge" Homicide (1966–67) Hunter (1967–69) Division 4 (1969–70)

Film Getting Along with the Government (1966, TV film) Three in One (1957, anthology film) as Preacher Topaze (1966, TV film) as Castel-Benac

Stage The Break (1962) at Union Theatre, Sydney with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust

Radio Plays The Explorers (1952) - Wills Black Lightning (1952) - Max Leader

Writer / Producer credits The Angry General (1965) - writer The Man Who Saw It (1966) - writer Slow Poison (1967) - writer Contrabandits (1967) - writer Hunter (1967–69) - producer Division 4 (1969–70) -producer

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1923
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Died
1969
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Australian actor, writer and producer

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Allan Trevor was born in 1923.

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Allan Trevor died in 1969.

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Allan Trevor was a screenwriter, actor and television producer.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Allan Trevor

· Wikidata: Q84974885

· DBpedia: Allan Trevor

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