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TürkçeTrevor Bardette (Terva Gaston Hubbard)
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Biography
Nashville, Arkansas, USA
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 1920's, 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. Read more... 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 Jezebel (1938), Marie Antoinette (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) and The Grapes of Wrath (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.
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 Jezebel (1938), Marie Antoinette (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) and The Grapes of Wrath (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.
Actor
Character:
Shattuck Clay
They Won't Forget 1937
8
Character:
M. Noverre
The Great Garrick 1937
1
Character:
Sheriff at Plantation
Jezebel 1938
8
Character:
Municipal Taking the Young Dauphin
Marie Antoinette 1938
41
Character:
Complaining Landowner
Valley of the Giants 1938
3
Character:
Minor Role
Gone with the Wind 1939
84
Character:
Indian Jack Pasco
The Oklahoma Kid 1939
8
Character:
Mob Leader
Stand Up and Fight 1939
3
Character:
Jule - Bouncer at Dance
The Grapes of Wrath 1940
4
Character:
Agitator in Palmyra
Santa Fe Trail 1940
6
Character:
Union Fanatic with Knife
Virginia City 1940
9
Character:
Mr. Hale
Dark Command 1940
6
Character:
First Alabama Man
The Fighting 69th 1940
14
Character:
John Hanks
Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1940
7
Character:
Policeman Escorting Lee on Ship
Torrid Zone 1940
2
Character:
Foulette
New Moon 1940
13
Character:
Emelio Montez
Young Buffalo Bill 1940
2
Character:
Raven
Winners of the West 1940
1
Character:
Drenov, the Russian
Girl from Havana 1940
4
Character:
Bandaged Soldier
Bad Men of Missouri 1941
6
Character:
Allison
Red River Valley 1941
11
Character:
Sheriff
Glamour Boy 1941
2
Character:
Henchman Manuel
Romance of the Rio Grande 1941
1
Character:
Husband
Highway West 1941
1
Character:
Sam Bass
Wild Bill Hickok Rides 1942
3
Character:
Courtroom Guard Who Brings Albert's Notes
This Land Is Mine 1943
1
Character:
Peasant Leader
Chetniks 1943
1
Character:
Stefan
The Conspirators 1944
3
Character:
Garner, Juror
Faces in the Fog 1944
1
Character:
Hasson
A Thousand and One Nights 1945
4
Character:
Art Huck
The Big Sleep 1946
3
Character:
Farmer
Dragonwyck 1946
2
Character:
Rabbi Meyerberg
The Hoodlum Saint 1946
2
Character:
Villager Beside Garth at Ft. Pitt Siege
Unconquered 1947
1
Character:
Governor's Horseman
The Paleface 1948
2
Character:
Lucas' Footman
The Loves of Carmen 1948
1
Character:
Soldier
Bagdad 1949
3
Character:
Wilson
Hellfire 1949
2
Character:
Ezra Johnson - Farmer
The Doolins of Oklahoma 1949
3
Character:
Miller
Renegades of the Sage 1949
3
Character:
Alvaris
Macao 1952
4
Character:
Sid Yoakum
Lone Star 1952
1
Character:
Rufe Ramseur
The Sun Shines Bright 1953
8
Character:
Neri
The Desert Song 1953
8
Character:
Sheldon's Henchman at Hideout
The Man Behind the Gun 1953
2
Character:
Whiskered Miner
A Perilous Journey 1953
4
Character:
Frank Barlow
Red River Shore 1953
1
Character:
Jenks
Johnny Guitar 1954
21
Character:
Sheriff Joe Bailey
Destry 1954
4
Character:
Indian Chief at Schoolhouse
Dangerous Mission 1954
1
Character:
Paulsen
Run for Cover 1955
1
Character:
Captain
The Rawhide Years 1955
3
Character:
Court President
The Rack 1956
1
Character:
Sam Baldwin
Red Sundown 1956
1
1
Character:
Chief Guthrie
The Mating Game 1959
1
Character:
Stanley Henderson II
Papa's Delicate Condition 1963
2
1
Character:
Farmer
Run for Your Life 1965
0
Character:
Shad Wilkins
The Westerner 1940
0
Character:
McGonigle
The Untouchables 1959
0
Character:
Jan Stys as a man
None Shall Escape 1944
0
Character:
Chief Goldtooth
The Ford Television Theatre 1952
0
Character:
Joe King
Lassie 1954
0
Character:
Bet-a-Million Butler
Adventures of Superman 1952
0
Character:
Stage Passenger
Broken Arrow 1950
0
Character:
Aikens
The 20th Century-Fox Hour 1955
0
Character:
Davy Crockett
The Man from the Alamo 1953
0
Character:
Deputy Emmett
Screen Directors Playhouse 1955
0
Character:
Grandpa Kelly Green
My Favorite Martian 1963
0
Character:
Mr. Wilson
The Mating of Millie 1948
0
Character:
Luigi
Flipper 1964
0
Character:
Luke
Gomer Pyle: USMC 1964
0
Character:
Stanley Conklin
Slattery's People 1964
0
Character:
Don Mateo
Broken Arrow 1956
0
Character:
Jed Curtis
Zane Grey Theater 1956
0
Character:
Mart
Frontier 1955
0