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Trevor Rhone, a Jamaican playwright who co-wrote the reggae film classic The Harder They Come and helped introduce the island's pop culture to the world, died Tuesday. He was 69. Rhone died after a heart attack at a hospital in Jamaica's capital, Kingston, according to his brother, Neville, and playwright Barbara Gloudon, a longtime friend and colleague. Born in 1940, Rhone wrote more than a dozen plays, including his two-character comedy, Two Can Play, about a Jamaican couple who leave poverty-torn Kingston for an unexpectedly complicated new life in the United States. But Rhone is best known for co-writing The Harder They Come, Jamaica's first feature film, in the early 1970s with Perry Henzell, a filmmaker who died in 2006.
Jamaican Playright Trevor Rhones Dies
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | 12:10 PM ET The Associated Press
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