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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (47 titles)
7.3MovieChurchill and the Movie Mogul
Self (archive footage) · 2019
5.5MovieClassic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Self (archive footage) · 2013
4.3MovieWhy Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage) · 2007
7.5MovieThe Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Self (archive footage) · 2005
7.2MovieMelanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
Himself (archive footage) · 2004
6.9MovieComplicated Women
Self (archive footage) · 2003
6.9MovieGlorious Technicolor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1998
5.1MovieThe Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage) · 1997
MovieBogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage) · 1997
6.7MovieIngrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage) · 1996
8.2MovieThe Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage) · 1988
9.0MovieGoing Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage) · 1984
7.0MovieHollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1983
7.5ShowMGM Parade
1955
7.0MovieThe Gentle Sex
Narrator (voice) · 1943
6.8MovieIn Which We Serve
Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 1942
6.7MovieThe First of the Few
R.J. Mitchell · 1942
5.9MovieThe White Eagle
Narrator (voice) · 1942
MovieScreen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage) · 1942
7.0Movie49th Parallel
Philip Armstrong Scott · 1941
From the Four Corners
Himself (as A Passer-By) · 1941
7.3Movie"Pimpernel" Smith
Professor Horatio Smith · 1941
7.9MovieGone with the Wind
Ashley Wilkes · 1939
6.7MovieIntermezzo: A Love Story
Holger Brandt · 1939
7.0MoviePygmalion
Henry Higgins · 1938
6.5MovieStand-In
Atterbury Dodd · 1937
7.1MovieIt's Love I'm After
Basil Underwood · 1937
MovieBreakdowns of 1936
Self · 1936
6.2MovieRomeo and Juliet
Romeo · 1936
5.8MovieMaster Will Shakespeare
Romeo (uncredited) · 1936