Acting · Forest Hill, London, England, UK · Born April 3, 1893
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.
MovieChurchill and the Movie Mogul
2019
as Self (archive footage)
MovieClassic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013
as Self (archive footage)
MovieWhy Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
2005
as Self (archive footage)
MovieMelanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
2004
as Himself (archive footage)
MovieComplicated Women
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
2000
as Self (archive footage)
MovieGlorious Technicolor
1998
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieThe Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBogart: The Untold Story
1997
as Self (archive footage)
MovieIngrid Bergman Remembered
1996
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
MovieGoing Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
MovieHollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVMGM Parade
1955
MovieThe Gentle Sex
1943
as Narrator (voice)
MovieIn Which We Serve
1942
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
MovieThe First of the Few
1942
as R.J. Mitchell
MovieThe White Eagle
1942
as Narrator (voice)
MovieScreen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
Movie49th Parallel
1941
as Philip Armstrong Scott
From the Four Corners
1941
as Himself (as A Passer-By)
Movie"Pimpernel" Smith
1941
as Professor Horatio Smith
MovieGone with the Wind
1939
as Ashley Wilkes
MovieIntermezzo: A Love Story
1939
as Holger Brandt
MoviePygmalion
1938
as Henry Higgins
MovieStand-In
1937
as Atterbury Dodd
MovieIt's Love I'm After
1937
as Basil Underwood
MovieBreakdowns of 1936
1936
as Self
MovieRomeo and Juliet
1936
as Romeo
MovieMaster Will Shakespeare
1936
as Romeo (uncredited)
MovieThe Petrified Forest
1936
as Alan Squier
MovieThe Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
MovieBritish Agent
1934
as Stephen 'Steve' Locke
MovieThe Lady Is Willing
1934
as Albert Latour
MovieOf Human Bondage
1934
as Philip Carey
MovieBerkeley Square
1933
as Peter Standish
MovieCaptured!
1933
as Captain Fred Allison
MovieSecrets
1933
as John Carlton
MovieThe Animal Kingdom
1932
as Tom
MovieSmilin' Through
1932
as Sir John Carteret
MovieService for Ladies
1932
as Max Tracey
MovieDevotion
1931
as David Trent
MovieFive and Ten
1931
as Berry Rhodes
MovieA Free Soul
1931
as Dwight Winthrop
MovieNever the Twain Shall Meet
1931
as Dan
MovieOutward Bound
1930
as Tom Prior
MovieBookworms
1920
as Richard
