Hugh Trevor

Hugh Trevor , born Hugh TrevorThomas in 1903, was an American actor whose short career began at the very end of the silent era in 1927. He would appear in nineteen films in the scant six years during which he was active. He did not fare well with the advent of talking pictures, and retired from the industry in 1931. His life was cut short when he unexpectedly died from complications following appendectomy surgery in 1933.

Trevor was born on October 28, 1903, in Yonkers, New York. He graduated from the college preparatory school, Columbia Extension Institute, he went on to study at Harvard University. After college, he began a successful insurance business. In 1925, through his uncle, producer William LeBaron, he went to sell an insurance policy to the film star, Richard Dix. Dix was impressed Trevor, and arranged for him to screen test, which Dix himself directed.

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