Leslie Howard

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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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2020
Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests
Movie Self (archive footage)
2019
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Movie Self (archive footage)
2013
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Movie Self (archive footage)
2007
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Movie Self (archive footage)
2005
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Movie Self (archive footage)
2004
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland
Movie Himself (archive footage)
2003
Complicated Women
Movie Self (archive footage)
2000
Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance
Movie Self (archive footage)
1998
Glorious Technicolor
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Movie Self (archive footage)
1997
Bogart: The Untold Story
Movie Self (archive footage)
1996
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Movie Self (archive footage)
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie Self (archive footage)
1988
South of Reno
Movie
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie (archive footage)
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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1969
The Happy Ending
Movie Self - Actor in 'Smilin' Through' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1955
MGM Parade
TV show
1943
The Lamp Still Burns
Movie Producer
1943
The Gentle Sex
Movie Narrator (voice)
1942
In Which We Serve
Movie Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1942
The First of the Few
Movie R.J. Mitchell
1942
The White Eagle
Movie Narrator (voice)
1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Movie Self (archive footage)
1941
49th Parallel
Movie Philip Armstrong Scott
1941
From the Four Corners
Movie Himself (as A Passer-By)
1941
"Pimpernel" Smith
Movie Professor Horatio Smith
1939
Gone with the Wind
Movie Ashley Wilkes
1939
Intermezzo: A Love Story
Movie Holger Brandt
1938
Pygmalion
Movie Henry Higgins
1937
Stand-In
Movie Atterbury Dodd
1937
It's Love I'm After
Movie Basil Underwood
1936
Breakdowns of 1936
Movie Self
1936
Romeo and Juliet
Movie Romeo
1936
Master Will Shakespeare
Movie Romeo (uncredited)
1936
The Petrified Forest
Movie Alan Squier
1934
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Movie Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
British Agent
Movie Stephen 'Steve' Locke
1934
The Lady Is Willing
Movie Albert Latour
1934
Of Human Bondage
Movie Philip Carey