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