Gone With the Wind
1940
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Leslie Howard was an English actor, director, and producer best known for playing Ashley Wilkes in ‘Gone With the Wind.’. Known for his quintessential Englishness which made him the perfect choice to play sophisticated and suave gentlemen, he began his career as a stage actor.
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 ...
Leslie Howard was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer. Born Leslie Howard Stainer on April 3, 1893, in Forest Hill, London. His father was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and his English mother was of German Jewish and mostly English descent. In 1914, Howard received his first screen role in a silent film.
Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) 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.
May 18, 2018 · People. Literature and the Arts. Film and Television: Biographies. Leslie Howard. Howard, Leslie. views 1,853,031 updated May 18 2018. HOWARD, Leslie. Nationality: British. Born: Leslie Howard Stainer (some sources say Laszlo Horvath) in London, 3 April 1893. Education: Dulwich College, London.
Leslie Howard Biography. (Leslie Howard Steiner) actor. Born: 4/3/1893. Birthplace: London, England. Though he received two Oscar nominations for leading roles in Pygmalion (1938) and Berkeley Square (1933), he is best remembered for his supporting performance as Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind (1939).
Though born in Forest Hill (on 3 April 1893), their son initially grew up in Vienna, returning to London and a Dulwich College education when his father joined a City stockbroking firm.
