Trey Wilson

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Donald Yearnsley "Trey" Wilson III (born January 21, 1948 in Houston , Texas , † January 16, 1989 in New York City , New York ) was an American actor who worked primarily as a stage actor, but in the 1970s and 1980s also as an actor in film and television, gained notoriety. Notable film roles include local furniture mogul Nathan Arizona Senior in Arizona Junior (1987) and eccentric baseball coach Joe "Skip" Riggins in Annie's Men (1988). The character actor with the wrinkled face mostly mimed authoritarian figures that looked proletarian , usually in comedies.

life and career

Early years as an actor

Trey Wilson was born on 21 January 1948 as the son of Donald Yearnsley Wilson and Irene Louise "Mitzie" Wilson in Houston in the US state of Texas and visited here in the suburb of Bellaire , the Bellaire High School . He then went to the University of Houston , where he majored in English and acting, and during that time married his first wife, Cynthia June Brinson. After the wedding on April 5, 1969, this marriage was divorced on April 10, 1974 after almost exactly five years. Just over a year later married Wilson on August 25, 1975, the casting director Judy Blye , whom he met already during his studies at the University of Houston. Trey Wilson, already experienced in theater , had his first major appearance in the film and television business in 1976 in Rod Amateau's comedy Drive-In . A year later he starred alongside Randy Quaid and Christopher Lloyd in the Indian drama Three Warriors by Kieth Merrill in the supporting role of Chuck . 1978 followed appearances in each episode of What Really Happened to the Class of '65? and Dallas , as well as in the exploitation film Vampire Hookers by Filipino Cirio H. Santiago and in Ralph Bakshi's cartoon The Lord of the Rings . In the German-language dubbed version of the Dallas episode Der Flugzeugabsturz (2x10), Karl Schulz lends him the German voice. From April 1979 to August 1980 he worked on the musical revue Tintypes , an off-Broadway play , at the York Theater at St. Peter’s , and from October 1980 to January 1981 he was also involved in the Broadway production of this play. Before that, he played the pirate Cecco in the revival of the musical Peter Pan in the interpretation of Jerome Robbins from September 1979 to January 1981 and was also the understudy of Mr. Smee in the play . Parallel to his theater career, he continued to work on various film productions and was seen in 1980 in the films Big Blonde by Kirk Browning and in the lead role with the tall, blonde Sally Kellerman and Three-Way Weekend by Emmett Alston . At Three-Way Weekend he not only worked as an actor under the pseudonym Dan Diego , but was also the composer of part of the film music and also an associate producer .

Increasing national awareness

In 1981 he was seen in the musical The First , a play about the life of Jackie Robinson , the film critic Joel Siegel in the role of baseball coach Leo Durocher, which ran for around a month . In 1981 he was also involved in an episode of the long-running soap opera Another World as the performer of Stu Massey . As a result, he offered the character Alexander "Sandy" Cory (played by Christopher Rich ) a job as a repairer for carousel horses on the pier . After appearances in the television film Daddy, I'm Their Mama Now in the series Junge Schicksale in 1982, he was also seen in the Broadway play Foxfire by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn as the actor of Prince Carpenter from September 1982 to October 1983 . In 1983 he took on a role in the very short-lived satirical television series The News Is the News , which first achieved above-average national fame. In the music video for Pat Benatar's Love Is a Battlefield , he played Benatar's father, who threw her out of the parental home, and also acted as the political advisor to John F. Kennedy , Kenneth O'Donnell , in which three Golden Globe nominations Kennedy miniseries by Reg Gadney directed by Briton Jim Goddard . The following year, 1984 performances at twice followed oscar excellent and another five times Oscar-nominated drama Places in the Heart and in the triple Oscar-nominated film Sergeant Waters - A Soldier's Story , directed by Norman Jewison . In the latter film, Hermann Ebeling lent him the voice in the German version . Trey Wilson became a much-booked actor from the mid-1980s, when he increasingly came to appearances in film and on Broadway and off-Broadway.

Breakthrough from the mid-1980s

In David Lowell Rich's Fatal Headlines with Burt Lancaster in the leading role, he played the not insignificant supporting role of Paul Brown and was used in another Kennedy film that same year . This time in the three-part miniseries Robert Kennedy and His Times , in which he slipped into the role of union leader Jimmy Hoffa . In the same year he was also seen as a truck driver in The Protector with Jackie Chan and acted as an FBI agent in Marie - A True Story in the leading role with Oscar winner Sissy Spacek and directed by Roger Donaldson . In the busy year 1985 he was also seen in an episode of the short-lived ABC series Air Force and appeared from September 22, 1985 to October 6, 1985 for two weeks in The Custom of the Country at the McGinn-Cazale Theater on Off-Broadway on. A little more than a month later he also took on the role of typesetter and various other roles in the off-Broadway play Personals at the Minetta Lane Theater and was in action in this play until mid-July 1986. That year he returned to Broadway and played from November 1986 to January 1987 in the revival of the comedy The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur for The City Press reporters McCue . This was also his last official appearance on Broadway. Also in 1986 he played the Lt. Murdoch in Robert Mandel's action thriller F / X - Deadly Tricks and first took on a role in the television series Spenser with Robert Urich in the title role. In this series he was also seen in an episode the following year, but played a different character. In the German-language dubbed version of F / X - Tödliche Tricks , Joachim Kerzel , one of the most prominent speakers in German-speaking countries, gave him the voice for the first time . Kerzel was also Trey Wilson's voice in Arizona Junior , one of the early works by Nicolas Cage directed by the Coen brothers and starring Wilson in the role of father Nathan Arizona Senior , a role that contributed to his further international breakthrough was. For the Coen brothers, who then became friends with Trey Wilson, this was only the second film after Blood Simple - A murderous night in their young and even more successful career.

1987 followed for Wilson even more appearances; for example as Sheriff Maxie Howell in Jay Russell's drama With Full Steam to Chicago or as Peter Marstand in an episode of The Equalizer - The Guardian Angel of New York . Further major film roles followed for the committed actor, especially in 1988, when he appeared in four award-winning films and he was also seen in other productions. He starred as Lieutenant Sloan in The House on Carroll Street directed by Peter Yates , acted the quirky minor league baseball coach Joe “Skip” Riggins in the Oscar-nominated comedy Annie's Men, or was regional director Franklin in Jonathan Demmes Oscar nomination to see the Mafiosi Bride . Furthermore, he played in Ivan Reitman's Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito the industrialist Beetroot McKinley , who is subsequently shot by the killer Webster (played by Marshall Bell ). While Fred Maire lends him the voice for the first time in the German version of Annie's Men , Christian Rode was also used as the German voice for the first time in Twins - Zwillinge . In this busy year 1988, Trey Wilson had other assignments alongside Molly Ivins , Robert Klein and Polly Holliday as narrator in the sociolinguistics documentary American Tongues by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker , as well as in an episode of Crime Story . From April 26 to May 15, 1988 Trey Wilson appeared for the last three weeks on Off-Broadway; In The Debutante Ball he played the character of Hank Turner for the Manhattan Theater Cub on Stage II of the New York City Center .

Early death at the age of 40

On January 16, 1989, just five days before his 41st birthday, Trey Wilson, who was married to Judy Wilson until his death, died of sudden intracerebral haemorrhage in New York City , where he had lived until then. He was then buried in his hometown of Houston in a simple grave at Forest Park Cemetery . At the funeral, which took place on his 41st birthday, Randy Quaid and Brent Spiner took part as pallbearers; Sam Phillips , who would play Trey Wilson later this year, flew in from Memphis . In addition to his wife, he also left the stepson Eric Meadows, as well as his mother Mitzie Norman and the stepfather WF Norman. His other relatives include the former Texas Senator Kenneth Kimberlin "Kim" Brimer Jr. , who is his cousin three years older and who was also pallbearer at the funeral. A crime surrounding his death also occurred, committed by attorney Regis Lee Toomey. He pretended to be a reporter for the Houston Chronicle before the funeral and got some personal details about Wilson, including his social security number. With this Regis Lee Toomey had a birth certificate and a driver's license issued and, as Donald Yearnsley Wilson, committed various crimes such as check fraud or the pledging of merchandise. In October 1989, Regis Lee Toomey was arrested and subsequently sentenced to 50 years in prison for fraud and theft.

After his death, other films in which Trey Wilson was involved were released. In Thomas Schlammes , who was also one of Wilson's close friends, Miss Firecracker, he played the organizer of the Yazoo City , Mississippi beauty pageant , Benjamin Drapper . The film was also released in memory of Trey Wilson. He had a more important role in Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis - A Life for the rock and roll , where he alongside Dennis Quaid , Winona Ryder and Alec Baldwin producers and Sun Records founder Sam Phillips represented . Here Friedrich G. Beckhaus appeared as the German voice of Wilson's character. With Franklin J. Schaffner's Welcome Home , in which he participated as Colonel Barnes , a film was dedicated to him, as was the multiple Oscar winner, The Silence of the Lambs , published in 1991 by his friend Jonathan Demme. The revival of the musical Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser in collaboration with Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows , which was performed on Broadway from April 14, 1992 to January 8, 1995, was also dedicated to him . In the sixth episode of the first season of Law & Order , Trey Wilson made his last official appearance in film and television as the lawyer Eddie Cosmatos . In the German-language dubbed version of the episode, he was voiced by Fred Klaus . For Miller's Crossing , the third film by the Coen brothers, he was cast in the supporting role of Liam "Leo" O'Bannon ; after his death, Albert Finney, who was already four times Oscar nominee, took over this role .

Filmography

Film appearances (also short appearances)

Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)

Theatrical appearances

Broadway

Off-Broadway

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trey Wilson, 40, Dies; A Stage and Film Actor , accessed November 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Trey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson III, Donald Yearnsley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1989
Place of death New York City , New York , United States