Austin Trevor
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Austin Trevor (October 7, 1897 - January 22, 1978) was a Belfast born actor who had a long career in British films and television.
He was the first actor to play Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot on screen in three British films during the early 1930's: Alibi (1931), Black Coffee (1931) and Lord Edgware Dies (1934). He subsequently turned up in a character part in a later Poirot adaptation The Alphabet Murders in 1965.
He died in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
