Leslie Howard
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1893-04-03
Deathday 1943-06-01 (50 years old)
Place of Birth Forest Hill, London, England, UK
Also Known As Leslie Howard Steiner
Leslie Howard
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
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Himself (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Holger Brandt (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as R.J. Mitchell
as Narrator (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Philip Armstrong Scott
as Himself (as A Passer-By)
as Professor Horatio Smith
as Ashley Wilkes
as Holger Brandt
as Henry Higgins
as Atterbury Dodd
as Basil Underwood
as Self
as Romeo
as Romeo (uncredited)
as Alan Squier
as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Stephen 'Steve' Locke
as Albert Latour
as Philip Carey
as Peter Standish
as Captain Fred Allison
as John Carlton
as Tom Collier
as Sir John Carteret
as Max Tracey
as David Trent
as Berry Rhodes
as Dwight Winthrop
as Dan
as Tom Prior
as Richard
Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Associate Producer
as Producer
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Writer
as Writer