Leslie Howard
Acting
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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Leslie Howard
Self (archive footage)
... 2013
Self (archive footage)
... 2007
Self (archive footage)
... 2005
Himself (archive footage)
... 2004
Self (archive footage)
... 2003
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 1998
Self (archive footage)
... 1997
Self (archive footage)
... 1997
Self (archive footage)
... 1996
Self (archive footage)
... 1988
(archive footage)
... 1987
(archive footage)
... 1984
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 1983
Holger Brandt (archive footage) (uncredited)
... 1961
Narrator (voice)
... 1943
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
... 1942
R.J. Mitchell
... 1942
Narrator (voice)
... 1942
Self (archive footage)
... 1942
Philip Armstrong Scott
... 1941
Himself (as A Passer-By)
... 1941
Professor Horatio Smith
... 1941
Ashley Wilkes
... 1939
Holger Brandt
... 1939
Henry Higgins
... 1939
Atterbury Dodd
... 1937
Basil Underwood
... 1937
Self
... 1936
Romeo
... 1936
Romeo (uncredited)
... 1936
Alan Squier
... 1936
Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
... 1934
Stephen 'Steve' Locke
... 1934
Albert Latour
... 1934
Philip Carey
... 1934
Peter Standish
... 1933
Captain Fred Allison
... 1933
John Carlton
... 1933
Tom Collier
... 1932
Sir John Carteret
... 1932
Max Tracey
... 1932
David Trent
... 1931
Berry Rhodes
... 1931
Dwight Winthrop
... 1931
... 1931
Tom Prior
... 1930
Richard
... 1920