Leslie Howard
Acting
Born 1893-04-03
Died 1943-06-01
Forest Hill, London, England, UK
52 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Volpi Cup for Best Actor 1
Awards
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 nominated
- 1939 Best Actor Nominated Pygmalion
- 1934 Best Actor Nominated Berkeley Square
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Volpi Cup for Best Actor 1 won
- 1938 Best Actor Won Pygmalion
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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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Filmography
Acting
48 credits
Gone with the Wind
The Petrified Forest
49th Parallel
Of Human Bondage
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Romeo and Juliet
The Scarlet Pimpernel
British Agent
Complicated Women
Glorious Technicolor
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
In Which We Serve
The First of the Few
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Pygmalion
The Animal Kingdom
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
A Free Soul
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Going Hollywood: The '30s
"Pimpernel" Smith
Smilin' Through
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Breakdowns of 1936
It's Love I'm After
Bogart: The Untold Story
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Five and Ten
Stand-In
Outward Bound
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Bookworms
From the Four Corners
Captured!
The White Eagle
Secrets
Berkeley Square
Devotion
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
The Lady Is Willing
Master Will Shakespeare
The Gentle Sex
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Service for Ladies
Producing
6 credits
The First of the Few
Intermezzo: A Love Story
"Pimpernel" Smith
The Bump
The Lamp Still Burns
The Gentle Sex
Directing
4 credits
Other credits
2 credits
Writing
1 credit
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