Leslie Howard
British actor (1893-1943) · United Kingdom · Actors · Died at 50
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Something wrong?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.
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In Which We ServeFilm, Narrator (voice) (uncredited)1939
Gone with the WindFilm, Ashley Wilkes1938Volpi Cup for Best ActorAward
PygmalionFilm, 1938Director1936
Romeo and JulietFilm, Romeo1933
Berkeley SquareFilm, Peter Standish1932
Service for LadiesFilm, Max Tracey1930
Outward BoundFilm, Tom Prior1893Born3 April 1893Also in Deutsch
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"The Animal Kingdom" ad from, The Film Daily, Jul-Dec 1932 (page 1082 crop)_Act_I.jpg?width=1200)
'The Green Hat' (1925) Act I_Act_II_Napier_Harpenden_(Leslie_Howard)_and_Iris_Fenwick_(Katharine_Cornell).jpg?width=1200)
'The Green Hat' (1925) Act II Napier Harpenden (Leslie Howard) and Iris Fenwick (Katharine Cornell)_Act_III.jpg?width=1200)
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'The Wren' (1921) Act II Song
Leslie Howard, Theatre Magazine 1923-09Filmography 40
CMChurchill and the Movie Mogul
CUClassic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
WCWhy Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
MHMelanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
CWComplicated Women
GTGlorious Technicolor
TLThe Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
IRIngrid Bergman Remembered
SRSouth of Reno
TWThe Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
HFHollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
TEThe Happy Ending
TSThe Gentle Sex
TBThe Lamp Still BurnsISIn Which We Serve
TFThe First of the Few
TEThe White Eagle
TP49th Parallel
PS"Pimpernel" SmithGWGone with the Wind
ISIntermezzo: A Love StoryPYPygmalion
IAIt's Love I'm After
SIStand-In
TFThe Petrified ForestRJRomeo and Juliet
OBOf Human Bondage
TPThe Scarlet Pimpernel
BABritish AgentBSBerkeley Square
SESecrets
CACaptured!
STSmilin' Through
TKThe Animal KingdomSLService for Ladies
ASA Free Soul
FTFive and Ten
NMNever the Twain Shall Meet
DEDevotionOBOutward Bound62 credits on file
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MPMGM ParadeAwards
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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.
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