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Trevor Rhone

{{Short description|Jamaican actor (1940–2009)}}

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| name = Trevor D. Rhone

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| birth_name = Trevor Dave Rhone

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1940|03|24}}{{cite journal|last=Campbell|first=Howard|date=20 September 2009|title=Curtains close Stage - A playwright's journey to greatness|newspaper=Jamaica Gleaner|volume=3,022|pages=17}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2009|09|15|1940|03|24}}

| death_place = Kingston, Jamaica

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| known_for = Old Story Time, Smile Orange, The Harder They Come, One Love

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| occupation = Playwright and writer

| alma_mater = St Jago High School

| years_active = {{circa|1960}}–2009

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| children = Three

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| awards = Commander of the Order of Distinction, Jamaica
Fellow of Rose Bruford College

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| website = {{url|www.trevorrhone.com}}

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Trevor Dave Rhone CD (24 March 1940 – 15 September 2009)[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091702048.html "Trevor D. Rhone, 69 - Caribbean Playwright Co-Wrote 'The Harder They Come'"], The Washington Post, 17 September 2009. was a Jamaican writer, playwright and filmmaker. He co-wrote, with director Perry Henzell, the internationally successful film The Harder They Come (1972).[https://archive.today/20070514073259/http://web.bobmarley.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070314&contentid=9554 "′Harder They Come′ writer looks back"], Doug Miller, BobMarley.com, 28 March 2007.

Life

Trevor Rhone, was the last child of 23, grew up in the tiny town of Bellas Gate in Saint Catherine, Jamaica. After seeing his first play at the age of nine, he fell in love with theatre. Educated at Beckford & Smith High School, now known as St. Jago High School, he began his theatre career as a teacher after a three-year stint at Rose Bruford College, an English drama school, where he studied in the early 1960s on scholarship.Trevor Rhone, a Writer of the Harder They Come, Dies at 69, Rob Kenner, The New York Times, 21 September 2009. He was part of the renaissance of Jamaican theatre in the early 1970s. Rhone participated in a group called Theatre '77, which established The Barn, a small theatre in Kingston, to stage local performances. The vision of the group that came together in 1965 was that in 12 years, by 1977, there would be professional theatre in Jamaica.Jamaica Gleaner, 2006-04-16.

Rhone's prolific work includes the films The Harder They Come (1972), co-author; Smile Orange (1974), based on his play of the same name; Top Rankin{{'}}; Milk and Honey (1988), Genie Award winner; One Love (2003), Cannes Film Festival favorite.

He was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 1999 for his work by the Institute of Jamaica.{{cite web| url = http://instituteofjamaica.org.jm/musgrave-awards| title = Musgrave Awardees| publisher = Institute of Jamaica| access-date = 6 February 2015| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://archive.today/20141018165642/http://instituteofjamaica.org.jm/musgrave-awards| archive-date = 18 October 2014}}

He married Camilla King in 1974, and his children are Jonathan Rhone, filmmaker Traci Rhone, and physicist Trevor David Rhone.

Death

Trevor D. Rhone died on 15 September 2009 of a massive heart attack, and was buried in Bellas Gate, St. Catherine, Jamaica.

Works

= Publications of plays =

  • It's Not My Fault Baby (1967), co-author{{cite web|url=http://geocities.com/jamaican_theatre/skills_of_the_rhone.html |title=What Does Trevor Rhone Do? |access-date=2009-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021145739/http://geocities.com/jamaican_theatre/skills_of_the_rhone.html |archive-date=21 October 2009 |url-status=unfit }}
  • The Gadget (1968)
  • Cinderella (1969), musical
  • Music Boy (1971)
  • Sleeper (1972)
  • Comic Strip (1973)
  • Everyman (1980)
  • Old Story Time (1981) - new 2010 Longman edition includes CSEC-specific study notes {{ISBN|978-1-4082-4514-9}}
  • Two Can Play (1982)
  • The Game (1985)
  • Family Planning Musical (1989)
  • All in One (1991)
  • The Power (1992), commissioned by BBC Radio
  • One Stop Driver (1992)
  • Dear Counselor (1997)
  • Bellas Gate Boy (c2002),{{cite book|last=Rhone|first=Trevor|title=Bellas Gate Boy|publisher=Macmillan Caribbean|date=30 June 2004|isbn=978-1-4050-3116-5}} an autobiography,{{cite web|url=http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030331/flair/flair1.html|title=close&personal with Trevor Rhone|last=O'Neill|first=Kinisha|date=31 March 2003|newspaper=Jamaica Gleaner|access-date=2009-09-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923020349/http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030331/flair/flair1.html|archive-date=23 September 2009}} earned the Actor Boy Award for "Best New Play" c2002.

= Films =

Honours

  • Commander of the Order of Distinction.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0230030122|title=Review of Bellas Gate Boy|year=2008|publisher=Macmillan Caribbean|access-date=2009-09-24}}
  • Focus of the Caribbean Cultural Theatre's film festival in New York in March 2006.{{cite web|url=http://jis.gov.jm/cct-to-honour-trevor-rhone-in-new-york/|title=CCT to Honour Trevor Rhone in New York|date=22 February 2006|publisher=Jamaica Information Service (JIS)|access-date=2009-09-24}}
  • Fellow of Rose Bruford College theatre school.
  • Jamaica Gleaner Honour Award for contributions to the arts (2007).
  • Gold Musgrave Medal, 1988

For a more complete list see [https://web.archive.org/web/20080308130808/http://www.geocities.com/jamaican_theatre/time_line_of_achievements.html Awards and Honours.]

References

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External links

  • {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027044559/http://geocities.com/jamaican_theatre/ |archive-dates=2009-10-27|date=27 October 2009 |title=Trevor Rhone's internet home }}
  • [http://jamaica-guide.info/arts.and.entertainment/theater/ Theatre in Jamaica]
  • [http://www.trevorrhone.com Trevor Rhone Official Website]
  • trevorrhoneartistspage on Facebook
  • [https://archive.today/20070514073259/http://web.bobmarley.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070314&contentid=9554 {{"'}}Harder They Come' writer looks back"], Doug Miller, BobMarley.com, 28 March 2007.

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Category:1940 births

Category:2009 deaths

Category:20th-century dramatists and playwrights

Category:20th-century Jamaican male writers

Category:20th-century screenwriters

Category:Alumni of Rose Bruford College

Category:Best Screenplay Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners

Category:Commanders of the Order of Distinction

Category:Jamaican dramatists and playwrights

Category:Male dramatists and playwrights

Category:Recipients of the Musgrave Medal