Leslie Howard
Actor
Born April 3, 1893 in 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.
Filmography
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Self (archive footage)
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Self (archive footage)
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
Himself (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
Glorious Technicolor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MGM Parade
The Lamp Still Burns
The Gentle Sex
Narrator (voice)
In Which We Serve
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The First of the Few
R.J. Mitchell
The White Eagle
Narrator (voice)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
49th Parallel
Philip Armstrong Scott
"Pimpernel" Smith
Professor Horatio Smith
Gone with the Wind
Ashley Wilkes
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Holger Brandt
Pygmalion
Henry Higgins
Stand-In
Atterbury Dodd
It's Love I'm After
Basil Underwood
Breakdowns of 1936
Self
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo
Master Will Shakespeare
Romeo (uncredited)
The Petrified Forest
Alan Squier
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
British Agent
Stephen 'Steve' Locke
The Lady Is Willing
Albert Latour
Of Human Bondage
Philip Carey
Berkeley Square
Peter Standish
Captured!
Captain Fred Allison
Secrets
John Carlton
The Animal Kingdom
Tom
Smilin' Through
Sir John Carteret
Service for Ladies
Max Tracey
Devotion
David Trent
Five and Ten
Berry Rhodes
A Free Soul
Dwight Winthrop
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Dan
Outward Bound
Tom Prior
Bookworms
Richard