![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: 1902 Death: November 28, 1977 in California Biography:American actor "Trevor Bardette" could truly say that he died for a living. In the course of a film career spanning three decades, the mustachioed, granite-featured Bardette was "killed off" over 40 times as a screen villain. Entering movies in 1936 after abandoning a planned mechanical engineering career for the Broadway stage, Bardette was most often seen as a rustler, gangster, wartime collaborator and murderous backwoodsman. His screen skullduggery carried over into TV; one of Bardette's best remembered video performances was as a "human bomb" on an early episode of "Superman". Perhaps being something of a reprobate came naturally to "Trevor Bardette" -- or so he himself would claim in later years when relating a story of how, as a child, he'd won ten dollars writing an essay on "the evils of tobacco," only to be caught smoking behind the barn shortly afterward. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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