Robert Trebor, a personality actor who recurred as Salmoneus on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess and performed “Son of Sam” killer David Berkowitz throughout his lengthy display profession, has died. He was 71.
His obit at Legacy.com didn’t checklist a trigger, date or place of dying, however he had been struggling wqith negative effects from a stem-cell transplant for leukemia a number of years in the past..
Born on June 7, 1953, in Philadelphia, Trebor had just a few bit roles earlier than his profession obtained going within the Nineteen Eighties with small roles in such films as Gorp, Turk 182 and Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo. His breakout position was as infamous “Son of Sam” serial killer Berkowitz within the 1985 CBS telepic Out of the Darkness, which starred Martin Sheen because the NYC detective who monitor him down.
The next yr, Trebor had a key position reverse Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret in John Frankenheimer’s noir thriller 52 Pickup. In the course of the subsequent decade, h e went on to big-screen roles in Susan Seidelman’s Making Mr. Proper (1987), Oliver Stone’s Discuss Radio (1988), Roland Emmerich’s Common Soldier (1992) and others.
Alongside the way in which, Trebor did visitor pictures on such in style TV sequence as Miami Vice, Murphy Brown, Baywatch, Night time Courtroom, Tales from the Crypt and extra. Then got here his signature position.
Trebor was forged because the pleasant however sometimes-unscrupulous salesman Salmoneus in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, the 1995-99 syndicated motion sequence starring Kevin Sorbo because the demigod son of Zeus. Trebor appeared in almost two dozen episodes spanning all 5 seasons and performed a special character, studio chief B.S. Hollingsfoffer, for one episode late within the present’s run.
He reprised the Salmoneus character for a number of episodes of Hercules companion sequence Xena: Warrior Princess, starring Lucy Lawless.
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Trebor had principally movie roles after the flip of the century, showing in Dying on the Edge, Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, Meet Market, The Satan’s Reject and, in his closing display look, as a producer within the Coen brothers’ 2016 pic Hail Caesar! starring Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson and others.
He additionally was a veteran of the stage, enjoying in native Pittsburgh and Philadelphia productions and was named one of many first Artists-in-Residence at The Braid in Los Angeles. Trebor additionally authored a pair of books: Expensive Salmoneus: The World’s First Information to Love and Cash and The Haircut Who Would Be King, the latter a satire about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Trebor is survived by his spouse of 43 years, Deirdre Hennings,. Donations could also be made to The Braid, the place a scholarship is being established in his identify, or The Leukemia Analysis Basis.
