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.

Filmography

• 1988South of Reno
• 1984Going Hollywood: The '30s — (archive footage)
• MGM Parade
• 1943The Gentle Sex — Narrator (voice), Director, Producer
• 1943The Lamp Still Burns — Producer
• 1942In Which We Serve — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• 1942The First of the Few — R.J. Mitchell, Director, Producer
• 1942The White Eagle — Narrator (voice)
• 1941"Pimpernel" Smith — Professor Horatio Smith, Director, Producer
• 194149th Parallel — Philip Armstrong Scott
• 1941From the Four Corners — Himself (as A Passer-By), Writer
• 1939Gone with the Wind — Ashley Wilkes
• 1939Intermezzo: A Love Story — Holger Brandt, Associate Producer
• 1938Pygmalion — Henry Higgins, Director
• 1937It's Love I'm After — Basil Underwood
• 1937Stand-In — Atterbury Dodd
• 1936Master Will Shakespeare — Romeo (uncredited)
• 1936Romeo and Juliet — Romeo
• 1936The Petrified Forest — Alan Squier
• 1934British Agent — Stephen 'Steve' Locke
• 1934Of Human Bondage — Philip Carey
• 1934The Lady Is Willing — Albert Latour
• 1934The Scarlet Pimpernel — Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
• 1933Berkeley Square — Peter Standish
• 1933Captured! — Captain Fred Allison
• 1933Secrets — John Carlton
• 1932Service for Ladies — Max Tracey
• 1932Smilin' Through — Sir John Carteret
• 1932The Animal Kingdom — Tom
• 1931A Free Soul — Dwight Winthrop
• 1931Devotion — David Trent
• 1931Five and Ten — Berry Rhodes
• 1931Never the Twain Shall Meet — Dan
• 1930Outward Bound — Tom Prior
• 1920Bookworms — Richard
• 1920The Bump — Producer

Appearances as themselves (17)

• 2020Gone with the Wind – Makeup and Wardrobe Tests — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Churchill and the Movie Mogul — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 2005The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland — Himself (archive footage)
• 2003Complicated Women — Self (archive footage)
• 2000Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Glorious Technicolor — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1997Bogart: The Untold Story — Self (archive footage)
• 1997The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender — Self (archive footage)
• 1996Ingrid Bergman Remembered — Self (archive footage)
• 1988The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind — Self (archive footage)
• 1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1969The Happy Ending — Self - Actor in 'Smilin' Through' (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1942Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) — Self (archive footage)
• 1936Breakdowns of 1936 — Self