1897-1978 GB, Belfast
Claude Austin Trevor (7 October 1897 – 22 January 1978) was a Northern Irish actor who had a long career in film and television.He played the parson in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape.He was the first actor to play Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot on screen in three British films during the early 1930s: 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 stated that he only got the Poirot role because he could speak with a French accent.