Trevor Howard

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Trevor Howard (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) was a British actor. He 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".

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1988
The Dawning
Movie Grandfather
1988
The Unholy
Movie Father Silva
1987
White Mischief
Movie Jack Soames
1987
Hand in Glove
Movie Vicar
1986
Christmas Eve
Movie Maitland
1986
Shaka Zulu
TV show Lord Charles Somerset
1986
Foreign Body
Movie Dr Stirry
1986
Peter the Great
TV show Sir Isaac Newton
1986
Time After Time
Movie Brigadier Croshawe
1985
Time for Murder
TV show Sir Daniel Penwarden
1985
Dust
Movie Father
1985
Memory of the Camps
Movie Narrator
1985
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Movie Georg Friedrich Handel
1984
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Movie The King
1984
The Bengal Lancers!
Movie Uncle George
1984
George Washington
TV show Lord Fairfax