1893-04-03 ( 132 years old ) in Forest Hill, London, England, UK
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.
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Movies
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013-01-29
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
2005-06-18
Complicated Women
2003-05-06
Glorious Technicolor
1998-12-07
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997-11-01
Bogart: The Untold Story
1997-01-05
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996-04-06
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988-10-01
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
1987-01-01
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984-01-01
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961-12-31
The Gentle Sex
1943-05-23
In Which We Serve
1942-09-17
The First of the Few
1942-09-14
The White Eagle
1942-01-03
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942-01-01
49th Parallel
1941-11-24
From the Four Corners
1941-07-31
'Pimpernel' Smith
1941-07-28
Gone with the Wind
1939-12-15
Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939-10-06
Pygmalion
1939-03-03
Stand-In
1937-10-29
It's Love I'm After
1937-10-08
Breakdowns of 1936
1936-12-30
Romeo and Juliet
1936-09-03
Master Will Shakespeare
1936-06-13
The Petrified Forest
1936-02-08
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934-12-20
British Agent
1934-09-15
The Lady Is Willing
1934-08-10
Of Human Bondage
1934-07-20
Berkeley Square
1933-09-15
Captured!
1933-08-19
Secrets
1933-03-16
The Animal Kingdom
1932-12-28
Smilin' Through
1932-09-24
Service for Ladies
1932-01-14
Devotion
1931-09-25
Five and Ten
1931-06-13
A Free Soul
1931-06-02
Never the Twain Shall Meet
1931-05-16
Outward Bound
1930-09-17
Bookworms
1920-09-30
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