Trevor Dave Rhone CD (24 March 1940 – 15 September 2009)[2] was a Jamaican writer, playwright and filmmaker. He co-wrote, with director Perry Henzell, the internationally successful film The Harder They Come (1972).[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
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.[6]
He married Camilla King in 1974, and his children are Jonathan Rhone, filmmaker Traci Rhone, and physicist Trevor David Rhone.
Trevor D. Rhone died on 15 September 2009 of a massive heart attack, and was buried in Bellas Gate, St. Catherine, Jamaica.
For a more complete list see Awards and Honours.
