Leslie Howard
Acting
1893-04-03 · Forest 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.
Filmography
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
2020 · Movie
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
2019 · Movie
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013 · Movie
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007 · Movie
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
2005 · Movie
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
2004 · Movie
Complicated Women
2003 · Movie
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
2000 · Movie
Glorious Technicolor
1998 · Movie
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997 · Movie
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997 · Movie
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996 · Movie
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · Movie
South of Reno
1988 · Movie
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · Movie
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Movie
The Happy Ending
1969 · Movie
MGM Parade
1955 · Series
The Lamp Still Burns
1943 · Movie
The Gentle Sex
1943 · Movie
In Which We Serve
1942 · Movie
The First of the Few
1942 · Movie
The White Eagle
1942 · Movie
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942 · Movie
49th Parallel
1941 · Movie
From the Four Corners
1941 · Movie
"Pimpernel" Smith
1941 · Movie
Gone with the Wind
1939 · Movie
Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939 · Movie
Pygmalion
1938 · Movie
Stand-In
1937 · Movie
It's Love I'm After
1937 · Movie
Breakdowns of 1936
1936 · Movie
Romeo and Juliet
1936 · Movie
Master Will Shakespeare
1936 · Movie
The Petrified Forest
1936 · Movie
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934 · Movie
British Agent
1934 · Movie
The Lady Is Willing
1934 · Movie
Of Human Bondage
1934 · Movie
Berkeley Square
1933 · Movie
Captured!
1933 · Movie
Secrets
1933 · Movie
The Animal Kingdom
1932 · Movie
Smilin' Through
1932 · Movie
Service for Ladies
1932 · Movie
Devotion
1931 · Movie
Five and Ten
1931 · Movie
A Free Soul
1931 · Movie
Never the Twain Shall Meet
1931 · Movie
Outward Bound
1930 · Movie
The Bump
1920 · Movie
Bookworms
1920 · Movie