Acting
GenderMale
BirthdayApril 2, 1893 (131 years old)
Place of BirthForest 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.
Gone with the Wind
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
49th Parallel
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Pygmalion
'Pimpernel' Smith
Romeo and Juliet
Of Human Bondage
The First of the Few
The Petrified Forest
A Free Soul
Five and Ten
Smilin' Through
Devotion
The Animal Kingdom
Outward Bound
Berkeley Square
It's Love I'm After
Never the Twain Shall Meet
British Agent
Stand-In
Captured!
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Service for Ladies
Secrets
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
The Lady Is Willing
Bookworms
Breakdowns of 1936
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
From the Four Corners
The Gentle Sex
The White Eagle
Complicated Women
In Which We Serve
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Bogart: The Untold Story
Glorious Technicolor
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Master Will Shakespeare