Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1893-04-03
Day of Death
1943-06-01
Place of Birth
Forest Hill, London, England, UK
Leslie Howard
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 (45)
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
2005
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
2004
Complicated Women
2003
Glorious Technicolor
1998
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
The Gentle Sex
1943
In Which We Serve
1942
