Leslie Howard
Acting
Born: 1893-04-03 in Forest Hill, London, England, UK
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
Gone with the Wind
Ashley Wilkes
MGM Parade
49th Parallel
Philip Armstrong Scott
The Petrified Forest
Alan Squier
Glorious Technicolor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Of Human Bondage
Philip Carey
British Agent
Stephen 'Steve' Locke
In Which We Serve
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The First of the Few
R.J. Mitchell
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pygmalion
Henry Higgins
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Happy Ending
Self - Actor in 'Smilin' Through' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Self (archive footage)
Smilin' Through
Sir John Carteret
Secrets
John Carlton
"Pimpernel" Smith
Professor Horatio Smith
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Self (archive footage)
Outward Bound
Tom Prior
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
The Animal Kingdom
Tom
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
Five and Ten
Berry Rhodes
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Stand-In
Atterbury Dodd
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Holger Brandt
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Self (archive footage)
It's Love I'm After
Basil Underwood
Berkeley Square
Peter Standish
The Gentle Sex
Narrator (voice)
A Free Soul
Dwight Winthrop
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Self (archive footage)
Service for Ladies
Max Tracey
Bookworms
Richard
South of Reno
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)