Hugh TrevorFilmography

Born:: October 28, 1903 in Yonkers, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A distant relative of producer William LeBaron, handsome, dark-haired Hugh Trevor had worked in advertising and the insurance business prior to making his screen debut for FBO in 1927, his screen test reportedly having been directed by Richard Dix. The collegiate type, Trevor supported FBO's...Read More

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The Royal Bed

Actors: Lowell Sherman, Nance O'Neil, Mary Astor, Anthony Bushell, Robert Warwick

Synopsis: A wimpy king is forced to take responsibility for his little North Sea island kingdom after his iron-fisted wife goes on a vacation to the US in this comedy. Soon after she leaves, his subjects launch a revolt and the flighty fellow must quickly figure out what to do. Things get worse when his Read More

1931
Midnight Mystery

Actors: Betty Compson, Hugh Trevor, Lowell Sherman

Synopsis: Several able silent-screen veterans converge in RKO Radio's Midnight Mystery. Sally (Betty Compson), Tim (Lowell Sherman), Mischa (Ivan Lebedeff) and Paul (Raymond Hatton) are among the shady types whom wealthy Gregory (Hugh Trevor) invites to his isolated island mansion off the coast of Maine. Read More

1930
The Pay Off

Actors: Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon, Hugh Trevor, George F. Marion

Synopsis: Exercising his usual creative prerogative, Lowell Sherman was both star and director of RKO's The Pay Off. Sherman plays Gene Fenmore, a jaded gangster boss who falls in love with innocent young Nancy Porter (Marian Nixon). When Nancy's sweetheart Tommy Brown (William Janney) faces execution for a Read More

1930
Conspiracy

Actors: Bessie Love, Ned Sparks, Hugh Trevor, Rita La Roy

Synopsis: The "conspiracy" of the title refers not only to a deadly narcotics ring, but also the combined efforts by the good guys to capture the villains. Margaret Holt (Bessie Love) and her brother Victor (Bert Morehouse) team up to destroy the drug peddlers responsible for their father's death. They are Read More

1930
The Cuckoos

Actors: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, June Clyde, Hugh Trevor, Dorothy Lee, Ivan Lebedeff

Synopsis: The Cuckoos began life as The Ramblers, a Broadway musical vehicle for the comedy team of Clark and McCullough. By the time the property reached the screen, it had been retailored to the talents of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey -- and the improvement was enormous. The scene is a fancy Mexican Read More

1930
Half-Shot at Sunrise

Actors: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, John Rutherford, George MacFarlane, Roberta Robinson

Synopsis: After serving as comedy relief in three big-budget RKO Radio musicals, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were rewarded with their own starring vehicle, the dated but still delightful Half Shot at Sunrise. Set in Paris during WWI, the film casts Bert and Bob as Gilbert and Tommy Read More

1930
The Very Idea

Actors: Frank Craven, Theodore Von Eltz, Doris Eaton, Hugh Trevor

Synopsis: In this comedy, a wealthy couple cannot manage to conceive the child they so desperately want and so hearken to the advice of the wife's brother who suggests they use surrogate parents to conceive and bear the child. The couple chooses their maid and chauffeur. Unfortunately, the servants are Read More

1929
Love in the Desert

Actors: Olive Borden, Noah Beery, Sr., Hugh Trevor, Frank Leigh, Charles Brinley

Synopsis: An early sound film for flapper star Olive Borden, this low-budget effort from FBO featured the erstwhile "Joy Girl" as Zarah, "a beautiful Arabian" saving irrigation engineer Bob Winslow (Hugh Trevor) from being abducted by bandit leader Abdullah (Noah Beery). The latter naturally takes umbrage Read More

1929
Night Parade

Actors: Hugh Trevor, Lloyd Ingraham, Dorothy Gulliver, Aileen Pringle, Robert Ellis

Synopsis: A young boxer on his way to the top is scheduled for an important championship fight in this sports melodrama. He meets a beautiful woman and, wanting to impress her but not having any money, finds himself being pressured to throw the fight for a huge bribe. What he doesn't know, though, is that Read More

1929
Skinner's Big Idea

Actors: Bryant Washburn, James Bradbury, Robert Dudley, Ole M. Ness

Synopsis: Back in the late teens, Bryant Washburn starred in a successful series based on the "Skinner" stories by Henry Irving Dodge. After the success of Reginald Denny's Skinner's Dress Suit (1926), Washburn returned to the fold with Skinner's Big Idea in 1928. As before, the star plays Skinner, a young Read More

1928
Taxi 13

Actors: Chester Conklin, Martha Sleeper, Ethel Wales, Lee Moran

Synopsis: One of the first sound releases from FBO pictures (no dialogue, but plenty of music), Taxi 13 stars Chester Conklin in his customary screen guise as an overworked cab driver. With a wife and ten kids to support, hackie Angus MacTavish (Conklin) needs $100 so that he can buy a new cab. When his old Read More

1928
Wallflowers

Actors: Hugh Trevor, Mabel Julienne Scott, Jean Arthur, Lola Todd, Charles E. Stevenson

Synopsis: Wallflowers was based on a novel by Temple Bailey. The central character, a scheming social climber played by Mabel Julienne Scott, intends to force her stepson Hugh Trevor into a marriage of convenience. But Trevor has developed a fondness for shy Jean Arthur, the "wallflower" of the title. How Read More

1928
Red Lips

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Marian Nixon, Stanley Taylor, Hugh Trevor, Hayden Stevenson

Synopsis: Red Lips was based on the novel The Plastic Age by Percy Marks, previously filmed under its original title in 1925. Charles "Buddy" Rogers stars as college track star Hugh Carver, who'd rather party than anything else. Hugh's bad habits eventually catch up with him, leading to his expulsion when Read More

1928
Hey Rube!

Actors: Hugh Trevor, Gertrude Olmstead, Ethlyne Clair, Walter McGrail

Synopsis: In this suspenseful silent drama, set amidst the tawdry splendor of a carnival, a female reporter finds her life jeopardized when a jealous fire diver begins thinking that she is after a certain game operator. The diver manages to get the hapless newswoman atop her blazing diving platform. Read More

1928
Her Summer Hero

Actors: Hugh Trevor, Duane Thompson, Harold Goodwin, James Pierce

Synopsis: The outcome of a love triangle is once again decided by a "big race" in this lighthearted silent comedy-drama from FBO, the forerunner of RKO. Lifeguard and champion college swimmer Hugh Trevor saves pretty Duane Thompson from drowning and they become engaged. But after a misunderstanding, Duane Read More

1928
Beau Broadway

Actors: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Hugh Trevor, Kit Guard

1928
Dry Martini

Actors: Mary Astor, Matt Moore, Jocelyn Lee, Sally Eilers

Synopsis: Dry Martini was wittily adapted from the droll novel by John Thomas. Wealthy American Willoughby Quimby (Albert Gran) divorces his wife, then spends the next decade in Paris. His girth notwithstanding, Quimby keeps himself amply supplied with wine and women, and sometimes women and wine. Upon Read More

1928
Pinto Kid

Actors: Buzz Barton, Frank Rice, Gloria Lee, Walter Shumway, Hugh Trevor

Synopsis: This small-scale but entertaining Western was yet another outing for Buzz Barton, FBO's pint-sized cowboy ace, and his scruffy-looking sidekick Frank Rice. This time, Red Hepner (Barton) and Hank Robbins (Rice) obtain jobs on the Bruce ranch after saving Janet Bruce (Gloria Lee) from drowning in Read More

1928
Ranger of the North

Actors: Ranger

Synopsis: The title character in this breathless actioner is Ranger the Dog, played by -- Ranger the Dog. Eastern dude Bob Fleming (Hugh Trevor) becomes Ranger's friend for life when he removes a porcupine's quill from the canine's paw. Our doggie hero returns the favor by helping Fleming in his efforts to Read More

1927