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Leslie Howard
Actor, Director, Producer, Writer
Born April 3, 1893Died June 1, 1943 (50 years)
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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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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Filmography
| 2018 | |
| 2008 | Waiting for Hockney · as Sir Percy Blakeney |
| 1987 | South of Reno · as Philip |
| 1984 | Going Hollywood: The '30s · as (archive Footage) |
| 1969 | Hollywood: The Selznick Years · as Holger Brandt (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Some of the Best · as Dwight Winthrop |
| 1943 | The Gentle Sex · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1942 | In Which We Serve · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1942 | |
| 1941 | 49th Parallel · as Philip Armstrong Scott |
| 1941 | 'Pimpernel' Smith · as Professor Horatio Smith |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind · as Ashley Wilkes |
| 1939 | Intermezzo · as Holger Brandt |
| 1938 | |
| 1937 | Stand-In · as Atterbury Dodd |
| 1937 | It's Love I'm After · as Basil Underwood |
| 1936 | Romeo and Juliet · as Romeo |
| 1936 | The Petrified Forest · as Alan Squier |
| 1934 | The Scarlet Pimpernel · as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| 1934 | British Agent · as Stephen 'steve' Locke |
| 1934 | The Lady Is Willing · as Albert Latour |
| 1934 | Of Human Bondage · as Philip Carey |
| 1933 | Berkeley Square · as Peter Standish |
| 1933 | Captured! · as Captain Fred Allison |
| 1933 | Secrets · as John Carlton |
| 1932 | The Animal Kingdom · as Tom Collier |
| 1932 | Smilin' Through · as Sir John Carteret |
| 1932 | Reserved for Ladies · as Max Tracey |
| 1931 | Devotion · as David Trent |
| 1931 | A Free Soul · as Dwight Winthrop |
| 1931 | Five and Ten · as Berry Rhodes |
| 1931 | Never the Twain Shall Meet · as Dan |
| 1930 | Outward Bound · as Tom Prior |
| 1917 | The Happy Warrior · as Rollo |
| 1914 | The Heroine of Mons · as Cast |