Cast & creator
Leslie Howard
Best known for Gone with the Wind, MGM Parade, 49th Parallel
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.
Also known as: Leslie Howard Steiner
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1920–2020 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (62)
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Gone with the Wind
Ashley Wilkes
1939
MGM Parade
1955
49th Parallel
Philip Armstrong Scott
1941
In Which We Serve
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1942
British Agent
Stephen 'Steve' Locke
1934
The First of the Few
R.J. Mitchell
1942The First of the Few
Director
1942The First of the Few
Producer
1942
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
It's Love I'm After
Basil Underwood
1937
Of Human Bondage
Philip Carey
1934
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Self (archive footage)
2013
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
1997
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
Self (archive footage)
2000
The Petrified Forest
Alan Squier
1936
Glorious Technicolor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo
1936
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Self (archive footage)
2019
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
1984
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Self (archive footage)
2020
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Holger Brandt
1939Intermezzo: A Love Story
Associate Producer
1939
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
1942
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2007
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
The Happy Ending
Self - Actor in 'Smilin' Through' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1969
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
1988
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
1997
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
1996
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Self (archive footage)
2005
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Animal Kingdom
Tom
1932
The Lamp Still Burns
Producer
1943
Pygmalion
Henry Higgins
1938Pygmalion
Director
1938
Devotion
David Trent
1931
"Pimpernel" Smith
Professor Horatio Smith
1941"Pimpernel" Smith
Director
1941"Pimpernel" Smith
Producer
1941
The Lady Is Willing
Albert Latour
1934
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Dan
1931
Five and Ten
Berry Rhodes
1931
Berkeley Square
Peter Standish
1933
South of Reno
1988
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
Himself (archive footage)
2004
A Free Soul
Dwight Winthrop
1931
The Gentle Sex
Narrator (voice)
1943The Gentle Sex
Director
1943The Gentle Sex
Producer
1943
Stand-In
Atterbury Dodd
1937
Secrets
John Carlton
1933
Smilin' Through
Sir John Carteret
1932The Bump
Producer
1920
Breakdowns of 1936
Self
1936
Captured!
Captain Fred Allison
1933From the Four Corners
Himself (as A Passer-By)
1941From the Four Corners
Writer
1941
Master Will Shakespeare
Romeo (uncredited)
1936
Bookworms
Richard
1920
Outward Bound
Tom Prior
1930
Service for Ladies
Max Tracey
1932
The White Eagle
Narrator (voice)
1942