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.
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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored | Self (archive footage) | 2013-01-29 |
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2007-05-23 |
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The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert | Self (archive footage) | 2005-06-18 |
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Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland | Himself (archive footage) | 2004-11-09 |
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Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
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Glorious Technicolor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1998-12-07 |
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) | 1997-11-01 |
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Bogart: The Untold Story | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-05 |
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Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Self (archive footage) | 1996-04-06 |
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 |
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Hollywood's Hidden Secrets | (archive footage) | 1987-01-01 |
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Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 |
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-02-25 |
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The Gentle Sex | Narrator (voice) | 1943-05-23 |
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The First of the Few | R.J. Mitchell | 1942-09-14 |
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The White Eagle | Narrator (voice) | 1942-01-03 |
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) | Self (archive footage) | 1942-01-01 |
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In Which We Serve | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1942-09-17 |
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49th Parallel | Philip Armstrong Scott | 1941-11-24 |
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From the Four Corners | Himself (as A Passer-By) | 1941-07-31 |
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'Pimpernel' Smith | Professor Horatio Smith | 1941-07-28 |
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Gone with the Wind | Ashley Wilkes | 1939-12-15 |
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Intermezzo: A Love Story | Holger Brandt | 1939-10-06 |
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Pygmalion | Henry Higgins | 1938-10-06 |
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It's Love I'm After | Basil Underwood | 1937-10-08 |
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Stand-In | Atterbury Dodd | 1937-10-29 |
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The Petrified Forest | Alan Squier | 1936-02-08 |
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Breakdowns of 1936 | Self | 1936-12-30 |
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Master Will Shakespeare | Romeo (uncredited) | 1936-06-13 |
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Romeo and Juliet | Romeo | 1936-09-03 |
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British Agent | Stephen 'Steve' Locke | 1934-09-15 |
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Of Human Bondage | Philip Carey | 1934-07-20 |
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The Scarlet Pimpernel | Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1934-12-20 |
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The Lady Is Willing | Albert Latour | 1934-08-10 |
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Captured! | Captain Fred Allison | 1933-08-19 |
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Secrets | John Carlton | 1933-03-16 |
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Berkeley Square | Peter Standish | 1933-09-15 |
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Service for Ladies | Max Tracey | 1932-01-14 |
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Smilin' Through | Sir John Carteret | 1932-09-24 |
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The Animal Kingdom | Tom Collier | 1932-12-28 |
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Devotion | David Trent | 1931-09-25 |
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A Free Soul | Dwight Winthrop | 1931-06-02 |
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Never the Twain Shall Meet | Dan | 1931-05-16 |
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Five and Ten | Berry Rhodes | 1931-06-13 |
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Outward Bound | Tom Prior | 1930-09-17 |
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Bookworms | Richard | 1920-09-30 |
