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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.


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Born:
Apr 3, 1893 In Forest Hill, London, England, UK
Movie/TV Credits:
50
First Appeared:
In the movie Bookworms 1920-09-30
Latest Project:
Movie Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn 2015-08-18
Known For
Poster of The Oscars
Filmography
Movie Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn Self (archive footage) 2015-08-18
Movie Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored Self (archive footage) 2013-01-29
Movie Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema Self (archive footage) 2007-05-23
Movie The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert Self (archive footage) 2005-06-18
Movie Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland Himself (archive footage) 2004-11-09
Movie Complicated Women Self (archive footage) 2003-05-06
Movie Glorious Technicolor Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 1998-12-07
Movie Bogart: The Untold Story Self (archive footage) 1997-01-05
Movie The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender Self (archive footage) 1997-11-01
Movie Ingrid Bergman Remembered Self (archive footage) 1996-04-06
Movie The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (archive footage) 1988-10-01
Movie Hollywood's Hidden Secrets (Archival Footage) 1987-01-01
Movie Going Hollywood: The '30s (archive footage) 1984-01-01
Movie Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 1983-02-25
Movie Hollywood My Home Town Self (archive footage) 1965-12-31
Movie Hollywood: The Selznick Years Holger Brandt (archive footage) (uncredited) 1961-12-31
Series The Oscars Unknown 1953-03-19
Movie The Gentle Sex Narrator (voice) 1943-05-23
Movie Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) Self (archive footage) 1942-01-01
Movie In Which We Serve Narrator (voice) (uncredited) 1942-09-17
Movie The White Eagle Narrator (voice) 1942-01-03
Movie The First of the Few R.J. Mitchell 1942-09-14
Movie From the Four Corners Himself (as A Passer-By) 1941-07-31
Movie 'Pimpernel' Smith Professor Horatio Smith 1941-07-26
Movie 49th Parallel Philip Armstrong Scott 1941-11-24
Movie Pygmalion Henry Higgins 1939-03-03
Movie Gone with the Wind Ashley Wilkes 1939-12-15
Movie Intermezzo: A Love Story Holger Brandt 1939-10-06
Movie It's Love I'm After Basil Underwood 1937-10-08
Movie Stand-In Atterbury Dodd 1937-10-29
Movie The Petrified Forest Alan Squier 1936-02-08
Movie Master Will Shakespeare Romeo (uncredited) 1936-06-13
Movie Romeo and Juliet Romeo 1936-09-03
Movie Breakdowns of 1936 Self 1936-12-30
Movie Of Human Bondage Philip Carey 1934-07-20
Movie The Lady Is Willing Albert Latour 1934-08-10
Movie British Agent Stephen 'Steve' Locke 1934-09-15
Movie The Scarlet Pimpernel Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934-12-20
Movie Secrets John Carlton 1933-03-16
Movie Berkeley Square Peter Standish 1933-09-15
Movie Captured! Captain Fred Allison 1933-08-19
Movie Service for Ladies Max Tracey 1932-01-14
Movie Smilin' Through Sir John Carteret 1932-09-24
Movie The Animal Kingdom Tom Collier 1932-12-28
Movie Never the Twain Shall Meet Dan 1931-05-16
Movie A Free Soul Dwight Winthrop 1931-06-02
Movie Five and Ten Berry Rhodes 1931-06-13
Movie Devotion David Trent 1931-09-25
Movie Outward Bound Tom Prior 1930-09-17
Movie Bookworms Richard 1920-09-30