Leslie Howard

Birthday: 1893-04-03
Deathday: 1943-03-23
Birthplace: Forest Hill, London, England, UK
Gender: Male
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Drafted By: Unowned
Owned By: Unowned
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
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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.

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Career Statisics

Season Age Movie Role Result Points
1934 41 Berkeley Square (1933) Leading Actor Nom 0
1939 46 Pygmalion (1938) Leading Actor Nom 0
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Transaction History

Date Location Team Receives Team Receives Team Receives

Credits

Year Title Character
1942-09-14 The First of the Few R.J. Mitchell
1941-11-24 49th Parallel Philip Armstrong Scott
1941-07-28 'Pimpernel' Smith Professor Horatio Smith
1939-10-06 Intermezzo: A Love Story Holger Brandt
1939-03-12 Gone with the Wind Ashley Wilkes
1939-03-03 Pygmalion Henry Higgins
1937-10-29 Stand-In Atterbury Dodd
1937-10-08 It's Love I'm After Basil Underwood
1936-09-03 Romeo and Juliet Romeo
1936-06-13 Master Will Shakespeare Romeo (uncredited)
1936-02-08 The Petrified Forest Alan Squier
1934-12-20 The Scarlet Pimpernel Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934-09-15 British Agent Stephen 'Steve' Locke
1934-08-10 The Lady Is Willing Albert Latour
1934-07-20 Of Human Bondage Philip Carey
1933-09-15 Berkeley Square Peter Standish
1933-08-19 Captured! Captain Fred Allison
1933-03-16 Secrets John Carlton
1932-12-28 The Animal Kingdom Tom Collier
1932-09-24 Smilin' Through Sir John Carteret
1932-01-14 Service for Ladies Max Tracey
1931-09-25 Devotion David Trent
1931-06-13 Five and Ten Berry Rhodes
1931-06-02 A Free Soul Dwight Winthrop
1931-05-16 Never the Twain Shall Meet Dan
1930-09-17 Outward Bound Tom Prior
1920-09-30 Bookworms Richard