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  1. May 29, 2020 · But Leslie Howards glittering career and complex personal life was cut tragically short when he was lost in a mysterious plane crash aged 50, the victim of a suspected Nazi anti-spy attack...

  2. Leslie Howard. Actor: Pygmalion. Leslie Howard Steiner was born in London to Lilian (Blumberg) and Ferdinand "Frank" Steiner. His father was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and his English mother was of German Jewish and mostly English descent. Leslie went to Dulwich College, then worked as a bank clerk until the outbreak of World War I, when he ...

  3. Writer. 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 ...

  4. Feb 11, 2016 · Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn: Directed by Thomas Hamilton. With Derek Partridge, Leslie Ruth Howard, Norman Spencer, Matthew Sweet. Intimate and compelling documentary on the life and career of Leslie Howard (1893-1943)

  5. www.encyclopedia.com › film-and-television-biographies › leslie-howardLeslie Howard | Encyclopedia.com

    May 18, 2018 · HOWARD, LESLIE ( Leslie Steiner ; 1893–1943), British actor. Born in London of Hungarian Jewish parents, Howard started as a bank clerk and made his first appearance on the stage in 1918. He subsequently acted in many plays in London and New York and started film work in 1930.

  6. Debonair English actor Leslie Howard excelled at playing disillusioned intellectuals and gallant gentlemen on the stages and screens of Britain and America for nearly 30 years. Painfully shy as a child and traumatized on the battlefields of World War I, Howard turned to the theater as a form of...

  7. Oct 31, 2023 · Gone With the Wind: 80 Years since the quintessential English gentleman Leslie Howard was mysteriously shot down over the Atlantic Flight 777 was downed over the Atlantic in 1943, killing one of the treasures of British acting.

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