Background
Trevor was born on October 28, 1903, in Yonkers, New New York
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Education
He graduated from the college preparatory school, Columbia Extension Institute, he went on to study at Harvard University.
Career
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.
After college, he began a successful insurance business.
Dix was impressed Trevor, and arranged for him to screen test, which Dix himself directed. Subsequent to his screen test, Trevor made his film debut in the 1927 film, Ranger of the North, where he played second fiddle to the dog star, Ranger.
Although he would work for several studios, the bulk of his films were produced by F.B.O. Productions (FBO – also known as FBO Pictures Corporation), and later by Radio-Keith-Orpheum Radio Pictures, after FBO was merged with Radio Corporation of America to from Radio-Keith-Orpheum. While he never worked with Dix, he did work with other famous film figures of that era, including Mary Astor, Bryant Washburn, Chester Conklin, Noah Beery, the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey), Betty Compson, and Lowell Sherman. In 1929, Trevor was romantically linked with actress Aileen Pringle, following their working together on the film, Beau Broadway the prior year.
During his film career he was also romantically linked with another co-star, Betty Compson, who at one point was considering marrying him (after her divorce from James Cruze).
After the creation of Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Trevor would also work with his relative, William LeBaron. As the film industry transitioned into sound pictures, studios would create films in both sound and silent versions. Trevor"s film, Love in the Desert, was one such, and he and his co-star, Olive Borden, were featured in Photoplay magazine highlighting the new "Photophone" sound process.
However, with the onset of talking pictures, his career began to fade, and he retired from the film industry in 1931, his last film being Radio-Keith-Orpheum"s The Royal Bed.
In 1933, less than two weeks after his thirtieth birthday, he suffered an appendicitis. He died of complications from the resulting appendectomy, and was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
