Leslie Howard
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1893-04-03
- Died
- 1943-06-01
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Once Known
- Années de Pèlerinage -- Deuxième Année , Venezia e Napoli for Piano
- Love Letters from God
- Celestial Wife
- Naruto Coloring Book
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Film & TV
Acting · Forest Hill, London, England, UK
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…
Known for
- Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored — Self (archive footage)2013
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema — Self (archive footage)2007
- The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert — Self (archive footage)2005
- Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland — Himself (archive footage)2004
- Complicated Women — Self (archive footage)2003
- Glorious Technicolor — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)1998
- Bogart: The Untold Story — Self (archive footage)1997
- The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender — Self (archive footage)1997
- Ingrid Bergman Remembered — Self (archive footage)1996
- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind — Self (archive footage)1988
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- Listeners
- 4,805
- Total plays
- 274,460
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Leslie Howard was an accomplished British actor, director, and producer, born on April 3, 1893, in London, England. He rose to prominence during the early 20th century and became one of the most recognized and respected actors of his time. Howard's career encompassed both stage and screen. He gained critical acclaim for his stage performances, particularly in the works of George Bernard Shaw. However, he achieved widespread fame through his roles in numerous successful films. <a href="https://w
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
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- <i>OLEX2</i>: a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program
· 2009 · cited 30,693x
- The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment
· 2005 · cited 21,319x
- MobileNetV2: Inverted Residuals and Linear Bottlenecks
· 2018 · cited 21,045x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,907x
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Key facts
- Born
- Leslie Howard Steiner , ( 1893-04-03 ) 3 April 1893, Forest Hill , London , England
- Died
- 1 June 1943 (1943-06-01) (aged 50), At sea off the coast of Galicia, Spain , near Cedeira
- Cause of death
- Aircraft shot down
- Occupations
- Actor director producer writer
- Years active
- 1913–1943
- Known for
- Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) Professor Higgins in Pygmalion (1938) Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Spouse
- Ruth Evelyn Martin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1916 )
- Children
- 2, including Ronald
- Allegiance
- United Kingdom
- Service
- British Army
- Service years
- 1914–1916
- Rank
- Subaltern
Key dates
- Born
- 3 April 1893
- Died
- 1 June 1943
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Leslie
- Family name
- Howard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Bay of Biscay
- Occupation
- producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943), better known as Leslie Howard, was an English actor, director, producer, and writer. 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, including Berkeley Square (1933), Of Human Bondage, The Scarlet Pimpernel (both 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, and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for the latter film.
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1893 births1943 deaths20th-century English businesspeople20th-century English dramatists and playwrights20th-century English Jews20th-century English male actors20th-century English male writers20th-century English screenwriters20th-century people from California20th-century people from New York (state)Actors from the London Borough of Lewisham