Hero of the Month: Phillip Trent
Everybody wants to be the hero, with the exception of Robin, the Boy Wonder, Tonto or Ilya Kuriakin, most kids would rather be Batman, The Lone Ranger or Napolean Solo. But sometimes you have to be the sidekick, or in the case of Phillip Trent, you get to be the sidekick’s sidekick.
A genial looking guy, he appeared in scads of B pictures as a supporting player. Some of his credits include The Man Who Dared (1933), The Girl on the Front Page (1936), Pitares of the Skies (1939) and Outlaws of Cherekee Trail (1941).
His biggest role was in the Universal serial, The Green Hornet (1939) as reporter Jasper Jenks. His main function was rushing into Alan Jones’ office to give him the big story he was working on that The Green Hornet would later investigate. On several occasions he would team up with Wade Boteler, who was Jones’ sometime sidekick, thereby becoming a sidekick’s sidekick.
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