Leslie Howard
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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.
Known for
Credits
Gone with the Wind (1939)
as Ashley Wilkes
49th Parallel (1941)
as Philip Armstrong Scott
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
as Romeo
In Which We Serve (1942)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
British Agent (1934)
as Stephen 'Steve' Locke
Pygmalion (1938)
as Henry Higgins
Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Of Human Bondage (1934)
as Philip Carey
Bogart: The Untold Story (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
Glorious Technicolor (1998)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)
as Dan
The First of the Few (1942)
as R.J. Mitchell
Stand-In (1937)
as Atterbury Dodd
Smilin' Through (1932)
as Sir John Carteret
It's Love I'm After (1937)
as Basil Underwood
A Free Soul (1931)
as Dwight Winthrop
The Petrified Forest (1936)
as Alan Squier
Five and Ten (1931)
as Berry Rhodes
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Animal Kingdom (1932)
as Tom Collier
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
Secrets (1933)
as John Carlton
"Pimpernel" Smith (1941)
as Professor Horatio Smith
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
as Holger Brandt
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland (2004)
as Himself (archive footage)
Outward Bound (1930)
as Tom Prior
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
The Gentle Sex (1943)
as Narrator (voice)
Berkeley Square (1933)
as Peter Standish
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
as (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Devotion (1931)
as David Trent
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)
Breakdowns of 1936 (1936)
as Self
Captured! (1933)
as Captain Fred Allison
Master Will Shakespeare (1936)
as Romeo (uncredited)
The Lady Is Willing (1934)
as Albert Latour
From the Four Corners (1941)
as Himself (as A Passer-By)
The White Eagle (1942)
as Narrator (voice)
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Bookworms (1920)
as Richard
Service for Ladies (1932)
as Max Tracey