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.
Known For
Gone with the Wind
1939
MGM Parade
1955
Of Human Bondage
1934
49th Parallel
1941
In Which We Serve
1942
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
Romeo and Juliet
1936
The First of the Few
1942
Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939
The Petrified Forest
1936
It's Love I'm After
1937
British Agent
1934
Filmography
Gone with the Wind
as Ashley Wilkes · 1939
MGM Parade
· 1955
Of Human Bondage
as Philip Carey · 1934
49th Parallel
as Philip Armstrong Scott · 1941
In Which We Serve
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 1942
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel · 1934
Romeo and Juliet
as Romeo · 1936
The First of the Few
as R.J. Mitchell · 1942
Intermezzo: A Love Story
as Holger Brandt · 1939
The Petrified Forest
as Alan Squier · 1936
It's Love I'm After
as Basil Underwood · 1937
British Agent
as Stephen 'Steve' Locke · 1934
The Animal Kingdom
as Tom · 1932
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
as Self (archive footage) · 2020
Glorious Technicolor
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1998
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage) · 1997
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1983
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage) · 2003
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage) · 1942
Pygmalion
as Henry Higgins · 1938
Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage) · 1997
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
as Self (archive footage) · 2000
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage) · 1984
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
as Self (archive footage) · 2019
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage) · 1988
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
as Self (archive footage) · 2013
The Happy Ending
as Self - Actor in 'Smilin' Through' (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1969
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
as Self (archive footage) · 2005
A Free Soul
as Dwight Winthrop · 1931
Five and Ten
as Berry Rhodes · 1931
Smilin' Through
as Sir John Carteret · 1932
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage) · 1996
Breakdowns of 1936
as Self · 1936
Secrets
as John Carlton · 1933
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage) · 2007
"Pimpernel" Smith
as Professor Horatio Smith · 1941
Berkeley Square
as Peter Standish · 1933
Never the Twain Shall Meet
as Dan · 1931
Stand-In
as Atterbury Dodd · 1937
The Gentle Sex
as Narrator (voice) · 1943
South of Reno
· 1988
The Lady Is Willing
as Albert Latour · 1934
From the Four Corners
as Himself (as A Passer-By) · 1941
Bookworms
as Richard · 1920
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
as Himself (archive footage) · 2004
Devotion
as David Trent · 1931
Captured!
as Captain Fred Allison · 1933
Outward Bound
as Tom Prior · 1930
The White Eagle
as Narrator (voice) · 1942
Service for Ladies
as Max Tracey · 1932
Master Will Shakespeare
as Romeo (uncredited) · 1936