
Leslie Howard
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday3 April 1893
Died1 June 1943 (age 50)
Place of birthForest Hill, London, England, UK
Known credits53
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), Pygmalion (1938), Intermezzo (1939), "Pimpern…

Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
2020 · Self (archive footage)

Churchill and the Movie Mogul
2019 · Self (archive footage)

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013 · Self (archive footage)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007 · Self (archive footage)

The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
2005 · Self (archive footage)

Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
2004 · Himself (archive footage)

Complicated Women
2003 · Self (archive footage)

Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
2000 · Self (archive footage)

Glorious Technicolor
1998 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997 · Self (archive footage)

Bogart: The Untold Story
1997 · Self (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996 · Self (archive footage)

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · Self (archive footage)

South of Reno
1988

Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · (archive footage)

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Happy Ending
1969 · Self - Actor in 'Smilin' Through' (archive footage) (uncredited)

MGM Parade
1955

The Lamp Still Burns
1943 · Producer

The Gentle Sex
1943 · Narrator (voice)

The Gentle Sex
1943 · Director

The Gentle Sex
1943 · Producer

In Which We Serve
1942 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

The First of the Few
1942 · R.J. Mitchell

The First of the Few
1942 · Director

The First of the Few
1942 · Producer

The White Eagle
1942 · Narrator (voice)

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942 · Self (archive footage)

49th Parallel
1941 · Philip Armstrong Scott
From the Four Corners
1941 · Himself (as A Passer-By)
From the Four Corners
1941 · Writer

"Pimpernel" Smith
1941 · Professor Horatio Smith

"Pimpernel" Smith
1941 · Director

"Pimpernel" Smith
1941 · Producer

Gone with the Wind
1939 · Ashley Wilkes

Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939 · Holger Brandt

Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939 · Associate Producer

Pygmalion
1938 · Henry Higgins

Pygmalion
1938 · Director

Stand-In
1937 · Atterbury Dodd

It's Love I'm After
1937 · Basil Underwood

Breakdowns of 1936
1936 · Self

Romeo and Juliet
1936 · Romeo

Master Will Shakespeare
1936 · Romeo (uncredited)

The Petrified Forest
1936 · Alan Squier

The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934 · Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel

British Agent
1934 · Stephen 'Steve' Locke

The Lady Is Willing
1934 · Albert Latour
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