Trevor Howard

English film, stage and television actor (1913–1988)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1913-09-29
Died: 1988-01-07
Works: 2

Top works

Continuing tales of the old red farm House
Humble Beginings, the Tales of the Old Red Farm House

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Film & TV

Acting · Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK

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.…

Known for

The Unholy — Father Silva1988
The Dawning — Grandfather1988
White Mischief — Jack Soames1987
Hand in Glove — Vicar1987
Foreign Body — Dr Stirry1986
Time After Time — Brigadier Croshawe1986

Article

Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) was an English stage and screen actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved leading man star status in the film Brief Encounter (1945), followed by The Third Man (1949), portraying what BFI Screenonline called "a new kind of male lead in British films: steady, middle-class, reassuring…. but also capable of suggesting neurosis under the tweedy demeanour."

Howard was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor four times, winning for The Key (1958), and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Sons and Lovers (1960). His other notable film performances include Golden Salamander (1950), The Clouded Yellow (1951), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), Lola (1969), Ryan's Daughter (1970), Superman (1978), Gandhi (1982), and White Mischief (1987). He was also an Emmy Award recipient, and a three-time Golden Globe nominee.