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Leslie Howard

Leslie Howard

Birthday: 1893-04-03 | Place of Birth: Forest Hill, London, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leslie Howard (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer He also 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. n British and Hollywood productions, Howard often played stiff upper lipped Englishmen. He appeared in the film version of Outward Bound (1930), though in a different role from the one he portrayed on Broadway. He had second billing under Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (1931), which also featured Lionel Barrymore and future Gone With the Wind rival Clark Gable six years prior to their Civil War masterpiece. He starred in the film version of Berkeley Square (1933), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He played the title role in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), which is often considered the definitive portrayal.[16] .Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939) and roles in Of Human Bondage (1934), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Pygmalion (1938), and Intermezzo (1939). Howard's Second World War activities included acting and filmmaking. He was active in anti-Nazi propaganda and reputedly involved with British or Allied Intelligence, which may have led to his untimely death in 1943 when his airliner was shot down, sparking modern conspiracy theories regarding his death. More details at TMDB

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1943
The First of the Few

as    R.J. Mitchell

1942
49th Parallel

as    Philip Armstrong Scott

1942
'Pimpernel' Smith

as    Professor Horatio Smith

1941
From the Four Corners

as    Himself (as A Passer-By)

1939
Gone with the Wind

as    Ashley Wilkes

1939
Pygmalion

as    Henry Higgins

1939
Intermezzo: A Love Story

as    Holger Brandt

1937
Stand-In

as    Atterbury Dodd

1936
The Petrified Forest

as    Alan Squier

1936
Romeo and Juliet

as    Romeo

1935
The Scarlet Pimpernel

as    Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel

1934
Of Human Bondage

as    Philip Carey

1934
British Agent

as    Stephen 'Steve' Locke

1933
Secrets

as    John Carlton

1933
Berkeley Square

as    Peter Standish

1932
Service for Ladies

as    Max Tracey

1932
Smilin' Through

as    Sir John Carteret

1932
The Animal Kingdom

as    Tom Collier

1931
Five and Ten

as    Berry Rhodes

1931
Devotion

as    David Trent

1931
A Free Soul

as    Dwight Winthrop