‘Hercules’ and ‘Xena’ Star Dies at 71

• Robert Trebor, an actor recognized for his work on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, has died at 71
• The TV star died of sepsis on March 11, years after being recognized with leukemia in 2012 and present process a stem-cell transplant a yr later, his spouse informed The Hollywood Reporter
• Trebor’s on-line obituary states his “expertise, humor, power and enthusiasm can be vastly missed”

Robert Trebor, the actor who performed Salmoneus in each Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, has died. He was 71.

Trebor died of sepsis on March 11 on the Los Angeles Medical Middle, his spouse, Deirdre Hennings, informed The Hollywood Reporter.

He was beforehand recognized with leukemia in 2012, earlier than present process a stem-cell transplant in 2013, which he suffered unwanted effects from, per his on-line obituary.

“Mr. Trebor’s expertise, humor, power and enthusiasm can be vastly missed by all who knew him, most particularly by his spouse,” the star’s obituary states.

Trebor, who was born in Philadelphia and attended Northwestern College, spent a few of his earlier years as an actor at New York Metropolis’s Ensemble Studio Theatre, the place he carried out in Shel Silverstein’s performs, in accordance with his obituary.

From there, his breakout position got here in 1985, when he starred within the TV film Out of the Darkness as Son of Sam, alongside the likes of Martin Sheen and Héctor Elizondo. His different early tasks included 1986’s 52 Decide-Up, 1987’s My Demon Lover, 1987’s Making Mr. Proper and Oliver Stone’s 1988 movie Speak Radio.

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Maybe his best-known position got here in 1995 on the sequence Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, by which he performed the service provider Salmoneus. He additionally reprised the position for Xena: Warrior Princess, showing in a handful of episodes.

In a 2001 interview with The Voyageur, Trebor mentioned his character’s arc was “to attempt to be a very good individual, however his important mercantile instincts stored interfering with that.”

“I by no means noticed him as a thief. [Bruce Campbell’s] Autolycus was the thief. I by no means noticed him as a con man both, though I may perceive why different folks may,” Trebor continued “He was only a very enthusiastic man who didn’t learn the wonderful print and wanted to make a dwelling when he wasn’t a farmer or fighter. He lived by his glib tongue.”

Amongst his different Hercules tasks, Trebor appeared as Waylin within the 1994 TV film Hercules and the Misplaced Kingdom, and, as his obituary notes, he finally grew to become “so fashionable” enjoying Salmoneus that he “grew to become an motion determine and appeared at fan conventions” all through the world.

A few of Trebor’s different tasks included 2004’s Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, in addition to showing in The Younger Indiana Jones Chronicles and Tales from the Crypt.

As his obituary states, Trebor was named one of many first Artists-in-Residence at The Braid in Los Angeles in 2013. He additionally revealed two books throughout his lifetime — Expensive Salmoneus: The World’s First Information to Love and Cash and The Haircut Who Would Be King.

In 2016, he was credited in his ultimate movie, the Coen Brothers’ satire Hail, Caesar!

Trebor is survived by Hennings, his spouse of 43 years, per his obituary. These wishing to indicate assist are being inspired to donate to The Braid — the place a scholarship fund is being established in his identify — in addition to the Leukemia Analysis Basis.