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
Ashley Wilkes
Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Philip Armstrong Scott
49th Parallel
Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Holger Brandt
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Henry Higgins
Pygmalion
Professor Horatio Smith
'Pimpernel' Smith
Romeo
Romeo and Juliet
Philip Carey
Of Human Bondage
R.J. Mitchell
The First of the Few
Alan Squier
The Petrified Forest
Dwight Winthrop
A Free Soul
Berry Rhodes
Five and Ten
Sir John Carteret
Smilin' Through
David Trent
Devotion
Tom Collier
The Animal Kingdom
Tom Prior
Outward Bound
Peter Standish
Berkeley Square
Basil Underwood
It's Love I'm After
Dan
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Stephen 'Steve' Locke
British Agent
Atterbury Dodd
Stand-In
Captain Fred Allison
Captured!
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Max Tracey
Service for Ladies
John Carlton
Secrets
(archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Self (archive footage)
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Albert Latour
The Lady Is Willing
Richard
Bookworms
Self
Breakdowns of 1936
Himself (archive footage)
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
Himself (as A Passer-By)
From the Four Corners
Narrator (voice)
The Gentle Sex
Narrator (voice)
The White Eagle
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
In Which We Serve
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Glorious Technicolor
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Romeo (uncredited)
Master Will Shakespeare
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
45
Gender
Male
Birthday
1893-04-03
Place of Birth
Forest Hill, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Leslie Howard Steiner