Leslie Howard
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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Acting
Movie
Gone with the Wind
as Ashley Wilkes
1939
Movie
The Petrified Forest
as Alan Squier
1936
Movie
Pygmalion
as Henry Higgins
1938
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Of Human Bondage
as Philip Carey
1934
Movie
49th Parallel
as Philip Armstrong Scott
1941
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In Which We Serve
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1942
Movie
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
Movie
A Free Soul
as Dwight Winthrop
1931
Movie
Intermezzo: A Love Story
as Holger Brandt
1939
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The First of the Few
as R.J. Mitchell
1942
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Romeo and Juliet
as Romeo
1936
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It's Love I'm After
as Basil Underwood
1937
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"Pimpernel" Smith
as Professor Horatio Smith
1941
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Smilin' Through
as Sir John Carteret
1932
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The Animal Kingdom
as Tom Collier
1932
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British Agent
as Stephen 'Steve' Locke
1934
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Stand-In
as Atterbury Dodd
1937
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Berkeley Square
as Peter Standish
1933
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Five and Ten
as Berry Rhodes
1931
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Outward Bound
as Tom Prior
1930
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Secrets
as John Carlton
1933
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Glorious Technicolor
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage)
1997
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The Gentle Sex
as Narrator (voice)
1943
Crew
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Pygmalion
Director
1938
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Intermezzo: A Love Story
Associate Producer
1939
Movie
The First of the Few
Director
1942
Movie
"Pimpernel" Smith
Director
1941
Movie
The Gentle Sex
Director
1943
Movie
The Lamp Still Burns
Producer
1943
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The Bump
Producer
1920
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From the Four Corners
Writer
1941