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person_profile-Leslie Howard

Leslie Howard Died at age: 50

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Leslie Howard

Date of Birth:

Apr 03, 1893

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Jun 01, 1943

Biography of

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.

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Leslie Howard

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Filmography of

Leslie Howard

Found 39 Movies in total

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2007

Complicated Women

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2003

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1997

Bogart: The Untold Story

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1997

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1996

... 1988

Going Hollywood: The '30s

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1984

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1983

Hollywood My Home Town

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1965

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

Holger Brandt (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1961

The Gentle Sex

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

Director

... 1943

In Which We Serve

Narrator (voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

The First of the Few

R.J. Mitchell ( Actor )

Director

... 1942

49th Parallel

Philip Armstrong Scott ( Actor )

... 1941

'Pimpernel' Smith

Professor Horatio Smith ( Actor )

Director

... 1941

Gone with the Wind

Ashley Wilkes ( Actor )

... 1939

Intermezzo: A Love Story

Holger Brandt ( Actor )

Associate Producer

... 1939

Pygmalion

Henry Higgins ( Actor )

Director

... 1939

Stand-In

Atterbury Dodd ( Actor )

... 1937

It's Love I'm After

Basil Underwood ( Actor )

... 1937

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo ( Actor )

... 1936

The Petrified Forest

Alan Squier ( Actor )

... 1936

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel ( Actor )

... 1934

British Agent

Stephen 'Steve' Locke ( Actor )

... 1934

The Lady Is Willing

Albert Latour ( Actor )

... 1934

Of Human Bondage

Philip Carey ( Actor )

... 1934

Berkeley Square

Peter Standish ( Actor )

... 1933

Captured!

Captain Fred Allison ( Actor )

... 1933

Secrets

John Carlton ( Actor )

... 1933

The Animal Kingdom

Tom Collier ( Actor )

... 1932

Smilin' Through

Sir John Carteret ( Actor )

... 1932

Service for Ladies

Max Tracey ( Actor )

... 1932

Devotion

David Trent ( Actor )

... 1931

Five and Ten

Berry Rhodes ( Actor )

... 1931

A Free Soul

Dwight Winthrop ( Actor )

... 1931

... 1931

Outward Bound

Tom Prior ( Actor )

... 1930