
Leslie Howard
Biography
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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Acting (44 movies)

Gone with the Wind
1939

The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
2005

49th Parallel
1941

The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934

Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939

Pygmalion
1938

'Pimpernel' Smith
1941

Romeo and Juliet
1936

Of Human Bondage
1934

The First of the Few
1942

The Petrified Forest
1936

A Free Soul
1931

Five and Ten
1931

Smilin' Through
1932

Devotion
1931

The Animal Kingdom
1932

Outward Bound
1930

Berkeley Square
1933

It's Love I'm After
1937

Never the Twain Shall Meet
1931

British Agent
1934

Stand-In
1937

Captured!
1933

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942

Service for Ladies
1932

Secrets
1933

Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013

The Lady Is Willing
1934

Bookworms
1920

Breakdowns of 1936
1936

Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
2004

The Gentle Sex
1943

The White Eagle
1942

Complicated Women
2003

Glorious Technicolor
1998

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988

Bogart: The Untold Story
1997

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996

In Which We Serve
1942

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997

Master Will Shakespeare
1936
Directing (4 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Bump | 1920 | Producer |
| 'Pimpernel' Smith | 1941 | Producer |
| From the Four Corners | 1941 | Writer |
| The First of the Few | 1942 | Producer |
| The Gentle Sex | 1943 | Producer |
| The Lamp Still Burns | 1943 | Producer |