Leslie Howard
Birthday
1893/04/03
Day of death
1943/06/01 (50 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Forest Hill, London, England, UK
Also know as
Leslie Howard Steiner
Biography
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1939) Gone with the Wind
as Ashley Wilkes
(2005) The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
as Self (archive footage)
(1941) 49th Parallel
as Philip Armstrong Scott
(1934) The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
(1939) Intermezzo: A Love Story
as Holger Brandt
(1939) Pygmalion
as Henry Higgins
(1941) 'Pimpernel' Smith
as Professor Horatio Smith
(1936) Romeo and Juliet
as Romeo
(1934) Of Human Bondage
as Philip Carey
(1942) The First of the Few
as R.J. Mitchell
(1936) The Petrified Forest
as Alan Squier
(1931) A Free Soul
as Dwight Winthrop
(1931) Five and Ten
as Berry Rhodes
(1932) Smilin' Through
as Sir John Carteret
(1931) Devotion
as David Trent
(1932) The Animal Kingdom
as Tom Collier
(1930) Outward Bound
as Tom Prior
(1933) Berkeley Square
as Peter Standish
(1937) It's Love I'm After
as Basil Underwood
(1931) Never the Twain Shall Meet
as Dan
(1934) British Agent
as Stephen 'Steve' Locke
(1937) Stand-In
as Atterbury Dodd
(1933) Captured!
as Captain Fred Allison
(1983) Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1942) Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
(1932) Service for Ladies
as Max Tracey
(1933) Secrets
as John Carlton
(1984) Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1961) Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Holger Brandt (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2013) Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
as Self (archive footage)
(1987) Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
as (archive footage)
(1934) The Lady Is Willing
as Albert Latour
(1920) Bookworms
as Richard
(1936) Breakdowns of 1936
as Self
(2004) Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
as Himself (archive footage)
(1941) From the Four Corners
as Himself (as A Passer-By)
(1943) The Gentle Sex
as Narrator (voice)
(1942) The White Eagle
as Narrator (voice)
(2003) Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
(1942) In Which We Serve
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1996) Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
(1997) Bogart: The Untold Story
as Self (archive footage)
(1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1998) Glorious Technicolor
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2007) Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(1997) The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage)
(1936) Master Will Shakespeare
as Romeo (uncredited)