Leslie Howard
Born in Forest Hill, London, England, UK — Apr 03 1893• Died Jun 01 1943
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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 Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Pygma…
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Leslie Howard's Credits
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Gone with the Wind
Ashley Wilkes
MGM Parade
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
49th Parallel
Philip Armstrong Scott
The Petrified Forest
Alan Squier
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
Pygmalion
Henry Higgins
In Which We Serve
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Lamp Still Burns
Production
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Self (archive footage)
Captured!
Captain Fred Allison
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Secrets
John Carlton
Five and Ten
Berry Rhodes
The Animal Kingdom
Tom Collier
Smilin' Through
Sir John Carteret
The First of the Few
R.J. Mitchell
A Free Soul
Dwight Winthrop
Of Human Bondage
Philip Carey
It's Love I'm After
Basil Underwood
Stand-In
Atterbury Dodd
Berkeley Square
Peter Standish
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
Devotion
David Trent
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Holger Brandt
British Agent
Stephen 'Steve' Locke
Breakdowns of 1936
Self
"Pimpernel" Smith
Professor Horatio Smith
Glorious Technicolor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Outward Bound
Tom Prior
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Self (archive footage)
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Dan
The Gentle Sex
Narrator (voice)
From the Four Corners
Himself (as A Passer-By)
The Bump
Production
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
Himself (archive footage)
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Self (archive footage)
The Lady Is Willing
Albert Latour
Service for Ladies
Max Tracey
The White Eagle
Narrator (voice)
Bookworms
Richard
Master Will Shakespeare
Romeo (uncredited)