1913-09-29 ( 111 years old ) in Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK
Howard was born in Cliftonville, Kent, England, the son of Mabel Grey (Wallace) and Arthur John Howard. He was educated at Clifton College (to which he left in his will a substantial legacy for a drama scholarship) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), acting on the London stage for several years before World War II. His first paid work was in the play Revolt in a Reformatory (1934), before he left RADA in 1935 to take small roles.
Although stories of his courageous wartime service in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals earned him much respect among fellow actors and fans alike, files held in the Public Record Office reveal that he had actually been discharged from the British Army in 1943 for mental instability and having a "psychopathic personality". The story, which surfaced in Terence Pettigrew's biography of the actor, published by Peter Owen in 2001, was initially denied by Howard's widow, actress Helen Cherry. Later, confronted with official records, she told the Daily Telegraph (24 June 2001) that his mother had claimed he was a holder of the Military Cross. She added that Howard had an honourable military record and "had nothing to be ashamed of".
Movies
The Dawning
1988-06-08
The Unholy
1988-04-22
White Mischief
1987-11-10
Hand in Glove
1987-01-01
Christmas Eve
1986-12-22
Foreign Body
1986-09-26
Time After Time
1986-01-26
Dust
1985-09-11
Memory of the Camps
1985-05-07
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
1985-01-01
The Bengal Lancers!
1984-06-01
Gandhi
1982-12-01
The Missionary
1982-11-02
The Deadly Game
1982-07-22
Inside the Third Reich
1982-05-09
Light Years Away
1981-05-20
Staying On
1980-12-28
Windwalker
1980-12-12
Superman II
1980-12-12
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
1980-11-07
The Sea Wolves
1980-07-03
The Shillingbury Blowers
1980-01-06
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1980-01-01
Flashpoint Africa
1980-01-01
Meteor
1979-10-19
Hurricane
1979-04-12
The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
1979-01-26
Superman
1978-12-14
Stevie
1978-09-15
Slavers
1978-02-24
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
1977-06-15
The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
1976-12-16
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1976-08-01
Aces High
1976-05-19
Death in the Sun
1976-03-15
Hennessy
1975-12-31
The Count of Monte-Cristo
1975-10-31
Conduct Unbecoming
1975-10-04
Persecution
1974-11-07
11 Harrowhouse
1974-09-26
Craze
1974-05-16
Who?
1974-04-18
The Catholics
1973-11-29
A Doll's House
1973-08-16
Ludwig
1973-03-07
The Offence
1973-01-11
Pope Joan
1972-08-16
Kidnapped
1971-12-22
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971-12-22
Catch Me a Spy
1971-09-06
The Night Visitor
1971-02-10
Ryan's Daughter
1970-03-19
Twinky
1970-01-06
Battle of Britain
1969-09-15
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968-04-10
Pretty Polly
1967-10-19
The Long Duel
1967-07-27
Triple Cross
1966-12-09
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966-05-20
The Liquidator
1965-11-01
Eagle in a Cage
1965-10-20
Morituri
1965-08-24
Von Ryan's Express
1965-06-23
Operation Crossbow
1965-04-01
Father Goose
1964-12-10
Man in the Middle
1964-01-27
The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
1963-04-03
Hedda Gabler
1962-12-28
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962-11-08
The Lion
1962-08-19
Sons and Lovers
1960-08-29
Moment of Danger
1960-01-26
The Roots of Heaven
1958-10-15
The Key
1958-05-28
Manuela
1957-07-18
Interpol
1957-04-02
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956-10-17
Run for the Sun
1956-07-30
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955-11-16
Lovers' Net
1955-01-18
The Stranger's Hand
1954-01-20
The Heart of the Matter
1953-11-03
Gift Horse
1952-06-01
Outcast of the Islands
1951-11-15
Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951-10-25
The Clouded Yellow
1950-11-21
Odette
1950-10-02
Golden Salamander
1950-02-01
The Third Man
1949-08-31
The Passionate Friends
1949-01-26
So Well Remembered
1947-07-09
They Made Me a Fugitive
1947-06-24
Green for Danger
1946-12-07
I See a Dark Stranger
1946-07-04
Brief Encounter
1945-11-24
The Way to the Stars
1945-06-16
The Way Ahead
1944-06-09
Squaring the Circle
1941-01-01
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