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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Ashley Wilkes
R.J. Mitchell
Philip Armstrong Scott
Alan Squier
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Romeo
Henry Higgins
Holger Brandt
Holger Brandt (archive footage) (uncredited)
Self (archive footage)
Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir John Carteret
Philip Carey
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tom Collier
John Carlton
Self (archive footage)
Professor Horatio Smith
Atterbury Dodd
Dan
Narrator (voice)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Dwight Winthrop
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Self (archive footage)
Stephen 'Steve' Locke
Berry Rhodes
Peter Standish
Self (archive footage)
Max Tracey
Basil Underwood
Self
David Trent
Self (archive footage)
Tom Prior
Captain Fred Allison
Self (archive footage)
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Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Albert Latour
Romeo (uncredited)
Himself (as A Passer-By)
Himself (archive footage)
Narrator (voice)
Self (archive footage)
Richard