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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 3, 1893
Died
June 1, 1943
Place of Birth
Forest Hill, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Leslie Howard Steiner
Leslie Howard
0.9 Popularity
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
5.5
Self (archive footage)
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013
4.3
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
5.0
Self (archive footage)
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
2005
7.2
Himself (archive footage)
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
2004
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
6.9
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Glorious Technicolor
1998
4.9
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
8.0
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Credits
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
as Self (archive footage)
2013
5.5
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2007
4.3
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
as Self (archive footage)
2005
5.0
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
as Himself (archive footage)
2004
7.2
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.7
Glorious Technicolor
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
6.9
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage)
1997
4.9
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
1997
0.0
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1996
6.7
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1988
8.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
10.0
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
6.5
The Gentle Sex
as Narrator (voice)
1943
7.0
In Which We Serve
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1942
6.8
The First of the Few
as R.J. Mitchell
1942
6.7
The White Eagle
as Narrator (voice)
1942
5.4
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
1942
0.0
49th Parallel
as Philip Armstrong Scott
1941
6.9
🎬
From the Four Corners
as Himself (as A Passer-By)
1941
0.0
"Pimpernel" Smith
as Professor Horatio Smith
1941
7.2
Gone with the Wind
as Ashley Wilkes
1939
7.9
Intermezzo: A Love Story
as Holger Brandt
1939
6.6
Pygmalion
as Henry Higgins
1938
7.0
Stand-In
as Atterbury Dodd
1937
6.3
It's Love I'm After
as Basil Underwood
1937
7.0
Breakdowns of 1936
as Self
1936
0.0
Romeo and Juliet
as Romeo
1936
6.2
Master Will Shakespeare
as Romeo (uncredited)
1936
5.5
The Petrified Forest
as Alan Squier
1936
7.1
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
6.9
British Agent
as Stephen 'Steve' Locke
1934
5.6
The Lady Is Willing
as Albert Latour
1934
6.0
Of Human Bondage
as Philip Carey
1934
6.5
Berkeley Square
as Peter Standish
1933
5.7
Captured!
as Captain Fred Allison
1933
5.2
Secrets
as John Carlton
1933
4.8
The Animal Kingdom
as Tom Collier
1932
5.4
Smilin' Through
as Sir John Carteret
1932
5.8
Service for Ladies
as Max Tracey
1932
6.8
Devotion
as David Trent
1931
6.8
Five and Ten
as Berry Rhodes
1931
5.8
A Free Soul
as Dwight Winthrop
1931
6.0
Never the Twain Shall Meet
as Dan
1931
4.2
Outward Bound
as Tom Prior
1930
5.9
Bookworms
as Richard
1920
5.0