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John Trent (LaVerne Brown) was born on 5 December, 1906 in Orange, California, USA, is an actor,miscellaneous. Discover John Trent's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?
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LaVerne Brown |
Occupation |
actor,miscellaneous |
Age |
60 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius |
Born |
5 December 1906 |
Birthday |
5 December |
Birthplace |
Orange, California, USA |
Date of death |
12 May, 1966 |
Died Place |
1966 |
Nationality |
United States
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He is a member of famous Actor with the age 60 years old group.
John Trent Height, Weight & Measurements
At 60 years old, John Trent height not available right now. We will update John Trent's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is John Trent's Wife?
His wife is Marian (1933 - ?) ( his death) ( 1 child)
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Marian (1933 - ?) ( his death) ( 1 child) |
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John Trent Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is John Trent worth at the age of 60 years old? John Trent’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated John Trent's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Born LaVerne Browne on December 5, 1906, in Orange, California, his first focus was in the legal field. Attending the University of Southern California (USC), he switched career aspirations only after completing his law studies and decided to attend the Hancock School of Aeronautics and flying school. He found steady work as a commercial pilot for TWA. As his story goes, the good-looking pilot was noticed by a Paramount executive, who happened to be a passenger on one of Trent's DC-2 flights, and Trent was offered a screen test.
Trent was a natural for the part of the obsessed youthful pilot who became the focus of a popular comic strip years back during the 'Charles Lindbergh' craze of the late 1920s.
Although John Russell (1921-1991), supporting actor in adult westerns and other "A"-budget films after WW2 and star of the classic western TV series Lawman (1958), bore an uncanny resemblance to Trent (1906-1966), the two men were not related--Russell's real name was in fact John Russell, and Trent's real name was LaVerne Brown.
Darkly handsome John Trent, an aviator-turned-actor-turned aviator, is best know for the "Tailspin Tommy" adventure movies back in the 1930s. While flying was a natural for him, acting was not and the actor eventually turned his back on his Hollywood career.
Heading for Los Angeles, Trent did the screen test, was put on contract, and given the moniker "John Trent," although there was another actor named John Trent at the time who appeared unbilled in a number of early 1930s films. There was one stipulation he made with TWA before signing with Paramount. . . that the airline company would put him on reserve in case things didn't work out. They agreed. With no training and few natural instincts in the art of performing, Trent started off slowly in bit parts.
Married to wife Marian since 1933, they had one daughter, Barbara.
As his visibility grew, he still remained pretty much overlooked in most of the second lead or supporting "B" movie roles presented to him at the time -- Badge of Honor (1934), A Doctor's Diary (1937), John Meade's Woman (1937), The Great Gambini (1937) and Blossoms on Broadway (1937).
Paramount cast him opposite Ann Dvorak in the comedy She's No Lady (1937) but he proved to be a rather wooden leading man.
The four films Trent starred in for Monogram were: Mystery Plane (1939), Stunt Pilot (1939), Sky Patrol (1939) and Danger Flight (1939).
Still his wooden performances in other films sealed his fate and, after two more movie roles, went behind the scenes as a flight instructor in Monogram's Wolf Call (1939) and in Paramount's I Wanted Wings (1941) (also appearing in the latter in support of Ray Milland and William Holden), and returned to "civilian" life as LaVerne Browne. Trent went back to doing what he did best, finding a job as a test pilot and as a flight manager in the flight-test division of Douglas Aircraft in the Southern California area.
Monogram Pictures wisely gave him the green light to star in four films based on the comic strip aviator "Tailspin Tommy," which would co-star Marjorie Reynolds as girlfriend Betty Lou and Milburn Stone as best buddy Skeeter, both actors later finding better notice on 1950's TV.
According to Laura Wagner's article on Trent in the Summer 2014 issue of Films of the Golden Age, the actor was originally signed to appear in six "Tailspin Tommy" films, but only four were completed. He was also set to star in the Columbia serial The Spider's Web (1938), but was replaced by Warren Hull just before filming started.