Leslie Howard
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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Movies (52)
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013 · Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007 · Self (archive footage)
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
2005 · Self (archive footage)
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
2004 · Himself (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
2000 · Self (archive footage)
Glorious Technicolor
1998 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996 · Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · Self (archive footage)
South of Reno
1988
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Happy Ending
1969 · Self - Actor in 'Smilin' Through' (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Lamp Still Burns
1943 · Producer
The Gentle Sex
1943 · Narrator (voice), Director, Producer
In Which We Serve
1942 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The First of the Few
1942 · R.J. Mitchell, Director, Producer
The White Eagle
1942 · Narrator (voice)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942 · Self (archive footage)
49th Parallel
1941 · Philip Armstrong Scott
From the Four Corners
1941 · Himself (as A Passer-By), Writer
"Pimpernel" Smith
1941 · Professor Horatio Smith, Director, Producer
Gone with the Wind
1939 · Ashley Wilkes
Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939 · Holger Brandt, Associate Producer
Pygmalion
1938 · Henry Higgins, Director
Stand-In
1937 · Atterbury Dodd
It's Love I'm After
1937 · Basil Underwood
Breakdowns of 1936
1936 · Self
Romeo and Juliet
1936 · Romeo
Master Will Shakespeare
1936 · Romeo (uncredited)
The Petrified Forest
1936 · Alan Squier
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934 · Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
British Agent
1934 · Stephen 'Steve' Locke
The Lady Is Willing
1934 · Albert Latour
Of Human Bondage
1934 · Philip Carey
Berkeley Square
1933 · Peter Standish
Captured!
1933 · Captain Fred Allison
Secrets
1933 · John Carlton
The Animal Kingdom
1932 · Tom
Smilin' Through
1932 · Sir John Carteret
Service for Ladies
1932 · Max Tracey
Devotion
1931 · David Trent
Five and Ten
1931 · Berry Rhodes
A Free Soul
1931 · Dwight Winthrop
Never the Twain Shall Meet
1931 · Dan
Outward Bound
1930 · Tom Prior
The Bump
1920 · Producer
Bookworms
1920 · Richard
