Leslie Howard
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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- 2013 · Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 · The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland as Himself (archive footage)
- 2003 · Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
- 1998 · Glorious Technicolor as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1997 · The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 · Bogart: The Untold Story as Self (archive footage)
- 1996 · Ingrid Bergman Remembered as Self (archive footage)
- 1988 · The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
- 1987 · Hollywood's Hidden Secrets as (archive footage)
- 1984 · Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
- 1983 · Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1961 · Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Holger Brandt (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1943 · The Gentle Sex as Narrator (voice)
- 1942 · In Which We Serve as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1942 · The First of the Few as R.J. Mitchell
- 1942 · The White Eagle as Narrator (voice)
- 1942 · Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)
- 1941 · 49th Parallel as Philip Armstrong Scott
- 1941 · From the Four Corners as Himself (as A Passer-By)
- 1941 · 'Pimpernel' Smith as Professor Horatio Smith
- 1939 · Intermezzo: A Love Story as Holger Brandt
- 1939 · Gone with the Wind as Ashley Wilkes
- 1939 · Pygmalion as Henry Higgins
- 1937 · Stand-In as Atterbury Dodd
- 1937 · It's Love I'm After as Basil Underwood
- 1936 · Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
- 1936 · Romeo and Juliet as Romeo
- 1936 · Master Will Shakespeare as Romeo (uncredited)
- 1936 · The Petrified Forest as Alan Squier
- 1934 · The Scarlet Pimpernel as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
- 1934 · British Agent as Stephen 'Steve' Locke
- 1934 · The Lady Is Willing as Albert Latour
- 1934 · Of Human Bondage as Philip Carey
- 1933 · Berkeley Square as Peter Standish
- 1933 · Captured! as Captain Fred Allison
- 1933 · Secrets as John Carlton
- 1932 · The Animal Kingdom as Tom Collier
- 1932 · Smilin' Through as Sir John Carteret
- 1932 · Service for Ladies as Max Tracey
- 1931 · Devotion as David Trent
- 1931 · Five and Ten as Berry Rhodes
- 1931 · A Free Soul as Dwight Winthrop
- 1931 · Never the Twain Shall Meet as Dan
- 1930 · Outward Bound as Tom Prior
- 1920 · Bookworms as Richard