Leslie Howard

Known for ActingBorn 1893-04-03Died 1943-06-01Forest Hill, London, England, UK

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

From the Four Corners

Going Hollywood: The '30s

MGM Parade

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert

The Lady Is Willing

Gone with the Wind

Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland

Complicated Women

Service for Ladies

Glorious Technicolor

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

"Pimpernel" Smith

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Devotion

The Petrified Forest

The Gentle Sex

Pygmalion

49th Parallel

It's Love I'm After

The Scarlet Pimpernel

In Which We Serve

The Bump

The First of the Few

Intermezzo: A Love Story

Stand-In

Of Human Bondage

Bookworms

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

Romeo and Juliet

A Free Soul

Five and Ten

Master Will Shakespeare

The White Eagle

Berkeley Square

Outward Bound

The Lamp Still Burns

Smilin' Through

British Agent

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

The Animal Kingdom

Captured!

Secrets

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Never the Twain Shall Meet

Bogart: The Untold Story

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

Breakdowns of 1936