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Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer. [1] 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 ...
Actor Leslie Howard was the best-known of the 17 crew and passengers aboard BOAC Flight 777. The most intense intrigue surrounded actor Leslie Howard who was at the peak of his career and had world fame after The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) and Gone with the Wind (1939).
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1934 British adventure film directed by Harold Young and starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey.Based on the 1905 play by Baroness Orczy and Montagu Barstow and the classic 1905 adventure novel by Orczy, the film is about an eighteenth-century English aristocrat (Howard) who leads a double life, passing himself off as an effete aristocrat while ...
Leslie Howard’s glittering career and complex personal life was cut tragically short in mysterious circumstances during World War 2.
Leslie Howard in Shanghai, China, on 15 December 2009. Leslie John Howard (born 29 April 1948) is an Australian pianist, musicologist and composer. He is best known for being the only pianist to have recorded the complete solo piano works of Franz Liszt, a project which included more than 300 premiere recordings.
British Agent is a 1934 American romantic espionage film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Leslie Howard and Kay Francis.It is based on Memoirs of a British Agent, the 1932 autobiography of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who worked for the British Secret Service during the Russian Revolution and had an affair with a Russian agent, later known as Moura Budberg.
The First of the Few is a British film produced and directed by Leslie Howard, with Howard taking the starring role of aviation engineer and designer R. J. Mitchell. Leslie Howard bore little resemblance to R. J. Mitchell, however, as Mitchell was a large and athletic man. Howard portrayed Mitchell as upper class and mild-mannered.
Language. English. "Pimpernel" Smith (released in the US as Mister V) is a 1941 British anti-Nazi thriller, [1] produced and directed by its star Leslie Howard, which updates his role in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) from Revolutionary France to pre- Second World War Europe. The British Film Yearbook for 1945 described his work as "one of the ...