10 Facts About Ian Trigger

Ian Trigger was a British actor of stage, film and television who had a successful career in the United States.

Ian Trigger first appeared in the United States with the Young Vic company following which he lived there for many years.

Ian J Trigger was born in Plymouth in Devon in 1938 where he attended Devonport High School for Boys.

Ian Trigger had early ambitions of following an acting career.

Ian Trigger eventually graduated from RADA in 1959 due to his training being interrupted by two years national service in the army, which he served in Scotland.

On leaving RADA Ian Trigger did repertory including Henry IV, Part 2 with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, The Gateway in Edinburgh and the Bristol Old Vic.

Ian Trigger then went to the newly formed Traverse Theatre before moving to the West End.

At the Traverse Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival Ian Trigger played comedy leads in such productions as Ubu Roi and Fairy Tales of New York before moving to London to appear as Humphrey in See How They Run at the Vaudeville Theatre in London.

Ian Trigger's hobbies included collecting 18th-century English theatre portrait figures and 19th-century Staffordshire pottery.

Ian Trigger died aged 71 in January 2010 in King's College Hospital in London after a long illness.