His younger brother was actor Arthur Howard. Howard was born Leslie Howard Steiner to a British mother, Lilian ( née Blumberg), and a Hungarian-Jewish father, Ferdinand Steiner, in Upper Norwood, London. Early life Įnglish Heritage blue plaque at 45 Farquhar Road, Upper Norwood, London 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. 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". Howard's World War II activities included acting and filmmaking. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Berkeley Square and Pygmalion. 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 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.Īctive in both Britain and Hollywood, Howard played Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director and producer.
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