# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leslie-howard
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:50:13.576Z

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name: "Leslie Howard"
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description: "Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, but that casting was almost incidental — he was already one of the 1930s' biggest draws, a transatlantic star who wrote for The New Yorker and played everything from costume swashbucklers to Pygmalion's Henry Higgins. Then the Luftwaffe shot his plane down over the Atlantic in 1943, and the rumors started."
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birthDate: "1893-04-03"
deathDate: "1943-06-01"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Leslie Howard Steiner was born in England on 3 April 1893 and built a career that straddled Hollywood and Britain, writing for The New York Times and Vanity Fair while becoming a fixture on screen. He earned Academy Award nominations for Berkeley Square in 1933 and Pygmalion in 1938, winning the Volpi Cup for the latter, and played the Scarlet Pimpernel, roles in Of Human Bondage and The Petrified Forest, and eventually Ashley Wilkes in 1939. When the Second World War came, he pivoted to anti-German propaganda films like "Pimpernel" Smith and The First of the Few — work the British Film Yearbook later called "one of the most valuable facets of British propaganda." On 1 June 1943, the Luftwaffe shot down BOAC Flight 777 over the Atlantic with Howard aboard, and whispers that he'd been working for British Intelligence have trailed the wreckage ever since.