Frank Trenton — Incident in a Small Town Character Profile

About Frank Trenton

Lily's abusive ex-partner and John's biological father. He manipulates John about his supposed war hero father, returns to harass Lily, and escalates to physical and sexual assault. His death by John's hand drives the second film's legal drama.

Character Facts

Played by

David Nerman

Appears in

Incident in a Small Town (1994)

Role

Minor

Relationships (3)

• Frank Trenton — Conflict Prosecutor & Victim — Madeleine (Lori Hallier)

  Prosecutor building a case around the victim's death.

• Frank Trenton — Power Judicial Authority — Judge Greeves (Bernard Behrens)

  Judge exercising authority over the accused's legal requests.

• Frank Trenton — Conflict Adversary — Harmon Cobb (Walter Matthau)

  Legal adversaries due to the murder investigation.

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More characters from Incident in a Small Town

• Harmon Cobb (Walter Matthau)
• Judge Bell (Harry Morgan)
• Lily Margaret Bell (Stephanie Zimbalist)
• John Bell Trenton (Nick Stahl)
• Nancy (Cara Pifko)
• Judge Greeves (Bernard Behrens)
• Madeleine (Lori Hallier)
• Joseph Baldwin (Dennis Strong)
• Seawright (James Blendick)
• Police Officer (Dee McCafferty)