Leslie Howard
Acting • Born 1893-04-03 – Died 1943-06-01
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.
Filmography
46 credits
Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1939
Ashley Wilkes
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
49th Parallel
Movie • 1941
Philip Armstrong Scott
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Movie • 1934
Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Movie • 1939
Holger Brandt
Pygmalion
Movie • 1938
Henry Higgins
"Pimpernel" Smith
Movie • 1941
Professor Horatio Smith
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1936
Romeo
Of Human Bondage
Movie • 1934
Philip Carey
The First of the Few
Movie • 1942
R.J. Mitchell
The Petrified Forest
Movie • 1936
Alan Squier
A Free Soul
Movie • 1931
Dwight Winthrop
Five and Ten
Movie • 1931
Berry Rhodes
Smilin' Through
Movie • 1932
Sir John Carteret
Devotion
Movie • 1931
David Trent
The Animal Kingdom
Movie • 1932
Tom Collier
Outward Bound
Movie • 1930
Tom Prior
Berkeley Square
Movie • 1933
Peter Standish
It's Love I'm After
Movie • 1937
Basil Underwood
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Movie • 1931
Dan
British Agent
Movie • 1934
Stephen 'Steve' Locke
Stand-In
Movie • 1937
Atterbury Dodd
Captured!
Movie • 1933
Captain Fred Allison
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie • 1983
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Movie • 1942
Self (archive footage)
Service for Ladies
Movie • 1932
Max Tracey
Secrets
Movie • 1933
John Carlton
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
The Lady Is Willing
Movie • 1934
Albert Latour
Bookworms
Movie • 1920
Richard
Breakdowns of 1936
Movie • 1936
Self
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
Movie • 2004
Himself (archive footage)
From the Four Corners
Movie • 1941
Himself (as A Passer-By)
The Gentle Sex
Movie • 1943
Narrator (voice)
The White Eagle
Movie • 1942
Narrator (voice)
Complicated Women
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
In Which We Serve
Movie • 1942
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Glorious Technicolor
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Master Will Shakespeare
Movie • 1936
Romeo (uncredited)
MGM Parade
TV • 1955