Trevor Bardette

Trevor Bardette

actor

Trevor Bardette was born on Nov 19, 1902 in USA. Trevor Bardette's big-screen debut came with The Cabin in the Cotton directed by Michael Curtiz in 1932, strarring Bit part (uncredited). Trevor Bardette is known for Panic! directed by Maurice Geraghty, Westbrook Van Voorhis stars as Self - Narrator and Bill Erwin as Chauffeur. The upcoming new movie Trevor Bardette plays is Mackenna's Gold which will be released on May 10, 1969.

Wavy-haired, articulate, quietly-spoken Bardette was one of Hollywood's archetypal villains of westerns and cliffhanger serials. He initially aspired to become a mechanical engineer after graduating from Oregon State University in June 1925. However, by the late 1920s, he had changed his name from Terva Gaston Hubbard to Trevor Bardette and embarked on a brief, unremarkable acting career on the East Coast stage, before moving to Hollywood in 1937. Though he went on to essay the occasional sheriff, rustic, frontiersman or hero's sidekick, his stoney features and deep-set, cold eyes ensured that he would invariably be cast as a ruthless heavy, sneaky spy, swindler, gangster or double-crosser. In the course of a thirty year career, the majority of his characters rarely survived until the final scene.A hard-working character player, Bardette took on just about any role offered him. Between 1938 and 1940 alone, he appeared in some 33 films, including bits in prestige pictures like L'insoumise (1938), Marie-Antoinette (1938), Autant en emporte le vent (1939), Abraham Lincoln (1940) and Les raisins de la colère (1940). At the smaller studios and later for television, he fared rather better in terms of screen time. Serials, especially, gave him the opportunity to chew the scenery at his most menacing: as the scar-faced Pegleg (aka Mitchell) of Overland with Kit Carson (1939), the icily controlled, preening killer Raven of Winners of the West (1940); and the deceptively meek Jensen, head of a Nazi spy ring, in The Secret Code (1942). On TV, he was Old Man Clanton, cattle rustler and perpetual nemesis of law and order in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955) (though, in actual fact, N.H. Clanton never faced the Earps, having met his fate earlier at the hands of Mexican cowboys in Guadalupe Canyon). Then there were recurring roles in series like Lassie (1954), Cheyenne (1955) and Gunsmoke (1955), to name but a few.Perhaps not surprisingly, Bardette bought his own ranch in Green Valley, Arizona, where he spent his remaining years after retiring from acting in 1970. In interesting footnote is his authorship (under his original name) of a short story entitled "The Phantom Photoplay", published in the August 1927 issue of Weird Tales magazine. His first name Terva, evidently sounded sufficiently feminine to be included among the publication's list of lady writers.

  • Birthday

    Nov 19, 1902

  • Place of Birth

    Nashville, Arkansas, USA

Known For

Panic!
TV
Panic!

19578.3

The Restless Gun
TV
The Restless Gun

19577.5

The Sheriff of Cochise
TV
The Sheriff of Cochise

19567.9

Cheyenne
TV
Cheyenne

19558.0

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

19557.6

Johnny Guitar
Movie
Johnny Guitar

19547.6

Gun Crazy
Movie
Gun Crazy

19507.6

Broken Arrow
Movie
Broken Arrow

19507.2

Sheriff of Wichita
Movie
Sheriff of Wichita

19497.2

The Big Sleep
Movie
The Big Sleep

19467.9

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