- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 3, 1893
- Place of Birth
- Forest Hill, London, England, UK
- Died
- June 1, 1943
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 h…
Filmography
movieChurchill and the Movie Mogul
2019 · Self (archive footage)
movieClassic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013 · Self (archive footage)
movieWhy Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
2005 · Self (archive footage)
movieMelanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
2004 · Himself (archive footage)
movieComplicated Women
2003 · Self (archive footage)
movieGlorious Technicolor
1998 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieThe Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997 · Self (archive footage)
movieBogart: The Untold Story
1997 · Self (archive footage)
movieIngrid Bergman Remembered
1996 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · Self (archive footage)
movieGoing Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · (archive footage)
movieHollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
tvMGM Parade
1955
movieThe Lamp Still Burns
1943 · Producer
movieThe Gentle Sex
1943 · Narrator (voice), Director, Producer
movieIn Which We Serve
1942 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
movieThe First of the Few
1942 · R.J. Mitchell, Director, Producer
movieThe White Eagle
1942 · Narrator (voice)
movieScreen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942 · Self (archive footage)
movie49th Parallel
1941 · Philip Armstrong Scott
From the Four Corners
1941 · Himself (as A Passer-By), Writer
movie"Pimpernel" Smith
1941 · Professor Horatio Smith, Director, Producer
movieGone with the Wind
1939 · Ashley Wilkes
movieIntermezzo: A Love Story
1939 · Holger Brandt, Associate Producer
moviePygmalion
1938 · Henry Higgins, Director
movieStand-In
1937 · Atterbury Dodd
movieIt's Love I'm After
1937 · Basil Underwood
movieBreakdowns of 1936
1936 · Self
movieRomeo and Juliet
1936 · Romeo
movieMaster Will Shakespeare
1936 · Romeo (uncredited)
movieThe Petrified Forest
1936 · Alan Squier
movieThe Scarlet Pimpernel
1934 · Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
movieBritish Agent
1934 · Stephen 'Steve' Locke
movieThe Lady Is Willing
1934 · Albert Latour
movieOf Human Bondage
1934 · Philip Carey
movieBerkeley Square
1933 · Peter Standish
movieCaptured!
1933 · Captain Fred Allison
movieSecrets
1933 · John Carlton
movieThe Animal Kingdom
1932 · Tom
movieSmilin' Through
1932 · Sir John Carteret
movieService for Ladies
1932 · Max Tracey
movieDevotion
1931 · David Trent
movieFive and Ten
1931 · Berry Rhodes
movieA Free Soul
1931 · Dwight Winthrop
movieNever the Twain Shall Meet
1931 · Dan
movieOutward Bound
1930 · Tom Prior
The Bump
1920 · Producer
movieBookworms
1920 · Richard