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name: "Trevor D. Rhone"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/trevor-d-rhone"
fi1m_id: "trevor-d-rhone"
imdb_id: "nm0722581"
tmdb_id: 52846
wikidata_id: "Q2503632"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "24 March 1940"
died: "15 September 2009"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:48:30.239613+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Trevor D. Rhone

## Identity

Trevor D. Rhone

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/trevor-d-rhone
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** trevor-d-rhone
- **IMDb ID:** nm0722581
- **TMDB ID:** 52846
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2503632
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Rhone, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2503632, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722581/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52846

Writer. Born 24 March 1940 in Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies. Died 15 September 2009.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 24 March 1940, Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies
- **Died:** 15 September 2009
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Rhone, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2503632, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722581/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52846

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Harder They Come*](https://film.one/film/the-harder-they-come.md) (80)

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## Biography

Trevor D. Rhone was a Jamaican writer, playwright and filmmaker. Born in Kingston on 24 March 1940, he grew up in Bellas Gate, Saint Catherine, and was educated at St Jago High School. He studied drama on scholarship at Rose Bruford College in England in the early 1960s before returning to Jamaica to teach and begin writing for the stage.

Rhone co-wrote the screenplay for the film *The Harder They Come* (1972) with director Perry Henzell. His other notable works include the play and film *Smile Orange* (1971 play; 1974 film), *Old Story Time* (1981) and *One Love* (2003). He also wrote and directed several other films and plays that drew on Jamaican life and dialect.

Rhone received the Commander of the Order of Distinction from Jamaica and other awards including the Musgrave Gold Medal. He died in Kingston on 15 September 2009.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, theguardian.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Harder They Come* (1972), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-harder-they-come.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *No Place Like Home* (2006), as Radio Announcer
- *One Love* (2003), Writer
- *Milk and Honey* (1988), Writer
- *Smile Orange* (1976), Director, Writer
- *The Harder They Come* (1972), Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-harder-they-come.md)

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