Leslie Howard
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 3, 1893
- Died
- June 1, 1943 (aged 50)
- Birthplace
- Forest Hill, London, England, UK
Biography
Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director and producer. He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s. Active in both Britain and Hollywood, Howard played Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). He had roles in many other films, often playing the quintessential Englishman, including Berkeley Square (1933), Of Human Bondage (1934), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Pygmalion (1938), Intermezzo (1939), "Pimpernel" Smith (1941), and The First of the Few (1942). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Berkeley Square and Pygmalion. Howard's World War II activities included acting and filmmaking. He helped to make anti-German propaganda and shore up support for the Allies—two years after his death the British Film Yearbook described Howard's work as "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda". He was rumoured to have been involved with British or Allied Intelligence, sparking conspiracy theories regarding his death in 1943 when the Luftwaffe shot down BOAC Flight 777 over the Atlantic (off the coast of Cedeira, A Coruña), on which he was a passenger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Filmography
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
Movie · as Himself (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Glorious Technicolor
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
South of Reno
Movie
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie · as (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Happy Ending
Movie · as Self - Actor in 'Smilin' Through' (archive footage) (uncredited)
MGM Parade
TV · 1 ep
The Gentle Sex
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The First of the Few
Movie · as R.J. Mitchell
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The White Eagle
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
In Which We Serve
Movie · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
49th Parallel
Movie · as Philip Armstrong Scott
"Pimpernel" Smith
Movie · as Professor Horatio Smith
From the Four Corners
Movie · as Himself (as A Passer-By)
Gone with the Wind
Movie · as Ashley Wilkes
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Movie · as Holger Brandt
Pygmalion
Movie · as Henry Higgins
It's Love I'm After
Movie · as Basil Underwood
Stand-In
Movie · as Atterbury Dodd
Romeo and Juliet
Movie · as Romeo
The Petrified Forest
Movie · as Alan Squier
Breakdowns of 1936
Movie · as Self
Master Will Shakespeare
Movie · as Romeo (uncredited)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Movie · as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
Of Human Bondage
Movie · as Philip Carey
British Agent
Movie · as Stephen 'Steve' Locke
The Lady Is Willing
Movie · as Albert Latour
Berkeley Square
Movie · as Peter Standish
Captured!
Movie · as Captain Fred Allison
Secrets
Movie · as John Carlton
Smilin' Through
Movie · as Sir John Carteret
The Animal Kingdom
Movie · as Tom
Service for Ladies
Movie · as Max Tracey
A Free Soul
Movie · as Dwight Winthrop
Five and Ten
Movie · as Berry Rhodes
Devotion
Movie · as David Trent
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Movie · as Dan
Outward Bound
Movie · as Tom Prior
Bookworms
Movie · as Richard