Jack Trevor

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Jack Trevor (actually Anthony Cedric Sebastian Steane ; born December 14, 1893 in London , Lambeth district , † December 19, 1976 in Deal , Kent ) was an English actor .

Life

Steane was the son of wealthy parents from the London upper class. He studied at New College , Oxford and was drafted into the military in 1914. In 1916, Captain Steane was dismissed as an invalid . Shortly after the end of the war, he married an Austrian named Alma, allegedly the daughter of Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and his lover Mary Vetsera . After only a year, his wife committed suicide.

Since 1922 he worked under the stage name "Jack Trevor" in silent films. From the beginning he embodied the typical gentleman , and in 1924 he appeared for the first time in a German film. Trevor, who had meanwhile married the divorced wife of the landowner Harry Penton, moved to Berlin in 1925.

Trevor regularly used the cliché of the fine English lord in numerous German films of the twenties. With the advent of the sound film, the English-speaking Englishman, who spoke only fragmentarily, retired to his new domicile in Oberammergau and traveled through Europe with his two sons.

Trevor later took on small roles in German film again. After the outbreak of war, he was arrested and interned by the Gestapo on September 11, 1939 . As a token of his loyalty to the National Socialist rulers, he had to read out the English-language news on the Berlin radio from January 1940 and participate in several propaganda films . The scope of the roles was always smaller: In My Life for Ireland he embodies a British judge who murdered the courts and sentenced Irish freedom fighters to death; in Ohm Krüger he just sits in silence at a conference table.

In July 1945 he was interned by the Americans and after a year transferred to the British. On January 15, 1947, the Central Criminal Court sentenced him to three years in prison for "assisting the enemy in the war," but three months later the verdict was overturned by the Supreme Court on the grounds that it was established that Trevor was only under duress have helped.

Filmography

  • 1922: Pages of Life
  • 1922: The Grass Orphan
  • 1922: Petticoat Loose
  • 1922: Thrilling Stories From the Strand
  • 1924: Not for Sale
  • 1925: The Venus from Montmartre
  • 1925: Sin Babylon
  • 1925: love is blind
  • 1925: The second mother
  • 1925: The great duchess
  • 1926: secrets of a soul
  • 1926: Fiaker No. 13
  • 1926: Trude, the sixteen year old
  • 1926: The golden butterfly
  • 1926: The island of forbidden kisses
  • 1927: The woman without a name (2 parts)
  • 1927: Colonial scandal ( love while intoxicated )
  • 1927: The Katzensteg
  • 1927: The hunt for the bride
  • 1927: The player
  • 1927: A Rhenish girl enjoying Rhenish wine
  • 1927: love dance
  • 1927: The duty to be silent / women's confession
  • 1927: The prisoner of Shanghai
  • 1927: The great stranger
  • 1927: The love of Jeanne Ney
  • 1927: The girl with the five zeros
  • 1927: The Sand Countess
  • 1928: The lady and her chauffeur
  • 1928: going astray
  • 1928: Love Carnival
  • 1928: Champagne / Champagne
  • 1928: Rasputin's love affair
  • 1928: mischief of love

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 353.

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personal data
SURNAME Trevor, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trevor, Jac; Steane, Anthony Cedric Sebastian (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1976
Place of death Deal (kent)