Leslie Howard

ActorDirectorProducerWriterProduction Apr 3 (died age 50) Forest Hill, London, England, UK 1920–2013 (93 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

Gone with the Wind

Ashley Wilkes

Film

The Petrified Forest

Alan Squier

Film

Pygmalion

Henry Higgins

Film

49th Parallel

Philip Armstrong Scott

Film

Of Human Bondage

Philip Carey

Film

In Which We Serve

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Film

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel

Film

Intermezzo: A Love Story

Holger Brandt

Filmography

Acting (46)

Movies (45)

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

2013

as Self (archive footage)

5.5

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

2007

as Self (archive footage)

4.3

The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert

2005

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland

2004

as Himself (archive footage)

7.2

Complicated Women

2003

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Glorious Technicolor

1998

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.9

Bogart: The Untold Story

1997

as Self (archive footage)

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

1997

as Self (archive footage)

4.9

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

1996

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984

as (archive footage)

10.0

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Gentle Sex

as Narrator (voice)

In Which We Serve

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

6.8

The First of the Few

1942

as R.J. Mitchell

6.7

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

as Self (archive footage)

The White Eagle

1942

as Narrator (voice)

5.5

49th Parallel

1941

as Philip Armstrong Scott

6.9

From the Four Corners

1941

as Himself (as A Passer-By)

"Pimpernel" Smith

1941

as Professor Horatio Smith

7.2

Gone with the Wind

1939

as Ashley Wilkes

7.9

Intermezzo: A Love Story

as Holger Brandt

Pygmalion

as Henry Higgins

It's Love I'm After

as Basil Underwood

Stand-In

as Atterbury Dodd

Master Will Shakespeare

1936

as Romeo (uncredited)

The Petrified Forest

as Alan Squier

Romeo and Juliet

as Romeo

Breakdowns of 1936

as Self

The Lady Is Willing

1934

as Albert Latour

6.0

British Agent

1934

as Stephen 'Steve' Locke

5.6

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1934

as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel

Of Human Bondage

as Philip Carey

Captured!

as Captain Fred Allison

Berkeley Square

as Peter Standish

Secrets

as John Carlton

The Animal Kingdom

as Tom Collier

Smilin' Through

as Sir John Carteret

Service for Ladies

as Max Tracey

Devotion

as David Trent

Never the Twain Shall Meet

as Dan

A Free Soul

as Dwight Winthrop

Five and Ten

as Berry Rhodes

Outward Bound

as Tom Prior

Bookworms

as Richard

Television (1)

MGM Parade

1955

Crew (11)

Movies (11)

The Gentle Sex

Director

The Gentle Sex

Producer

The Lamp Still Burns

Producer

The First of the Few

Director

The First of the Few

Producer

From the Four Corners

1941

Writer

"Pimpernel" Smith

Director

"Pimpernel" Smith

Producer

Intermezzo: A Love Story

Associate Producer

Pygmalion

Director

The Bump

Producer