
Leslie Howard
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.065 |
Birthday | 1893-04-03 |
Place of Birth | Forest Hill, London, England, UK |
Also Known As | Leslie Howard Steiner, |

1939

Gone with the Wind
7.9/4091
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruc...
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2005

The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
5/1
Short documentary about the making of "The Petrified Forest."
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The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert

1941

49th Parallel
7/107
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by com...
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49th Parallel

1934

The Scarlet Pimpernel
6.9/63
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an un...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel

1939

Intermezzo: A Love Story
6.7/39
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music...
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Intermezzo: A Love Story

1939

Pygmalion
7/140
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training,...
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Pygmalion

1941

'Pimpernel' Smith
7.1/24
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his exca...
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'Pimpernel' Smith

1936

Romeo and Juliet
6.2/30
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
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Romeo and Juliet

1934

Of Human Bondage
6.5/128
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
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Of Human Bondage

1942

The First of the Few
6.7/38
This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J....
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The First of the Few

1936

The Petrified Forest
7.057/193
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and th...
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1931

A Free Soul
6.1/42
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically invo...
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A Free Soul

1931

Five and Ten
6.25/12
John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand,...
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Five and Ten

1932

Smilin' Through
6/20
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carte...
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Smilin' Through

1931

Devotion
6.8/4
A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
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Devotion

1932

The Animal Kingdom
5.8/20
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The Animal Kingdom

1930

Outward Bound
5.9/12
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Outward Bound

1933

Berkeley Square
5.6/14
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Berkeley Square

1937

It's Love I'm After
7/27
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
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It's Love I'm After

1931

Never the Twain Shall Meet
4/3
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Never the Twain Shall Meet

1934

British Agent
5.5/17
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
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British Agent

1937

Stand-In
6.3/15
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Stand-In

1933

Captured!
5.6/7
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and...
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Captured!

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1942

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
0/0
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1932

Service for Ladies
6.8/3
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince t...
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Service for Ladies

1933

Secrets
5.1/11
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortu...
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Secrets

1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s
10/1
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years
3.3/3
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years

2013

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
5.5/4
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll...
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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

1987

Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
0/0
Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood.
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Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

1934

The Lady Is Willing
6/1
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap...
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The Lady Is Willing

1920

Bookworms
5/1
A suitor dons a disguise to woo a chaperoned girl.
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Bookworms

1936

Breakdowns of 1936
0/0
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
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Breakdowns of 1936

2004

Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
7.2/5
This documentary is featured in the 4-disc Collector's Edition DVD set, released in 2004, for Gone with the Wind (1939).
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Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland

1941

From the Four Corners
0/0
Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understa...
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From the Four Corners

1943

The Gentle Sex
7/11
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, dri...
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The Gentle Sex

1942

The White Eagle
5/4
An Oscar-nominated British documentary about the Polish people who escaped Poland and were living in England during World War II, both civilians and s...
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2003

Complicated Women
6.7/11
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered fi...
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Complicated Women

1998

Glorious Technicolor
6.7/12
The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.
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1988

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
8/3
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1997

Bogart: The Untold Story
0/0
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends a...
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Bogart: The Untold Story

1996

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
6.7/6
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable p...
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1942

In Which We Serve
6.8/89
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only comman...
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2007

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
4.9/4
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines t...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

1997

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
5.2/12
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one ti...
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

1936

Master Will Shakespeare
5.5/2
A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theater.
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