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Leslie Howard, Actor
b.3 Apr 1893 London, England
d.1 Jun 1943 Atlantic Ocean
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  1. Leslie Howard, Actor1893 - 1943
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Name[1][9][10][11] Leslie Howard, Actor
Baptismal Name[1] Leslie Howard Steiner
Alt Name[7] Leslie Howard Stainer
Gender Male
Birth[10][11] 3 Apr 1893 London, England
Alt Birth[5][8] Bet Apr 1893 and Jun 1893 Lewisham, London, England
Alt Birth[4] Bet 1893 and 1894 Kent, England
Residence[8] 1901 Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England
Christening[6] 31 Jan 1902 Peckham, London, England
Residence[4] 1911 Camberwell, London, England
Residence[9] 1935 United States
Occupation[1][10] actor, movies and theatre
Occupation[1] writer, New York Times
Death[2][3][7][10] 1 Jun 1943 Atlantic Oceanairliner shot down over the Atlantic
Alt Death[11] 1 Jun 1943 Cedeira, La Coruña, Galicia, SpainSan Andrés de Teixido
Reference Number[11] Q156178 (Wikidata)
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Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English actor, director and producer. He also 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 is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). He had roles in many other notable 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 was active in anti-German propaganda and shoring 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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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Leslie Howard, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ The New York Times. (New York, New York)
    04 Jun 1943.

    NO TRACE IS FOUND OF HOWARD'S PLANE; Spanish Destroyer Searches Bay of Biscay for Airliner Shot Down by Germans

  3. ↑ The New York Times. (New York, New York)
    27 Jun 1943.

    A SYMBOL OF ENGLAND
    By C.A. LEJEUNE

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lesli Howard Steiner, in England. 1911 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)).

    Name: Lesli Howard Steiner
    age in 1911: 17
    Estimated birth year: abt 1894
    Relation to Head: Son
    Gender: Male
    Birth Place: Kent, England
    Civil Parish: Camberwell
    county/Island: London
    Country: England
    Street address: 4 Jasper Road, Upper Norwood SE
    Marital Status: Single
    Occupation: SHIP BROKER CLERK
    Registration district: Camberwell
    Registration District Number: 27
    Sub-registration district: Dulwich
    ED, institution, or vessel: 8
    Piece: 2458
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Ferdinand Steiner 48
    Lilian Steiner 44
    Lesli Howard Steiner 17
    Doris Steiner 15
    Irene Mary Steiner 7
    Arthur John Steiner 1
    Frieda Meyers 28
    Rose Warren 21
    Leopold Propper 19
    Source Citation
    Class: RG14; Piece: 2458
    Source Information
    Ancestry.com. 1911 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
    Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA), 1911.

  5. ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Birth Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present).

    England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
    Name: Leslie Howard Steiner
    Registration Year: 1893
    Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
    Registration district: Lewisham
    Inferred County: London
    Volume: 1d
    Page: 1166
    Source Information
    FreeBMD. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
    Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office.

  6. ↑ London, England. Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010).

    London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
    VIEW London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
    Name: Leslie Howard Steiner
    Record Type: Baptism
    Baptism Date: 31 Jan 1902
    Father's name: Ferdinand Steiner
    Mother's name: Lilian Steiner
    Parish or Poor Law Union: Peckham St Chrysostom
    Borough: Southwark
    Register Type: Parish Registers
    Source Citation: London Metropolitan Archives, Peckham St Chrysostom, Register of Baptism, p73/cry, Item 004
    Source Information: Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
    Original data: Board of Guardian Records, 1834-1906 and Church of England Parish Registers, 1754-1906. London Metropolitan Archives, London.

  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

    England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
    VIEW England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
    Name: Leslie Howard Stainer
    [Leslie Howard]
    Death Date: 1 Jun 1943
    Death Place: Surrey, England
    Probate Date: 25 Apr 1944
    Registry: Llandudno
    Source Information
    Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
    Original data: Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England.

  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 England. England. 1901 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
    Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
    The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.).

    1901 England Census
    Name: Leslie Steiner
    Age: 7
    Estimated birth year: abt 1894
    Relation to Head: Son
    Gender: Male
    Father: Ferdinand Steiner
    Mother: Lillian Steiner
    Birth Place: London, England
    Civil Parish: Harrow on the Hill
    Ecclesiastical parish: Harrow St Mary
    Town: Harrow
    County/Island: Middlesex
    Country: England
    Registration district: Hendon
    Sub-registration district: Harrow
    ED, institution, or vessel: 4
    Piece: 1207
    Folio: 103
    Page Number: 1
    Household schedule number: 8
    Household Members:
    Name Age
    Ferdinand Steiner 38
    Lillian Steiner 31
    Leslie Steiner 7
    Alfred Steiner 1
    Source Citation
    Class: RG13; Piece: 1207; Folio: 103; Page: 1
    Source Information
    Ancestry.com. 1901 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
    Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, 1901.

  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Immigration and Naturalization Service. Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, RG 85. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc).

    Name: Leslie Howard
    Gender: Male
    Race/Nationality: English
    Age: 42
    Birth Date: abt 1893
    Birth Country: England
    Arrival Date: 26 Sep 1935
    Port of Arrival: Quebec, Canada
    Ship Name: Empress Britain
    Port of Departure: Southampton, England
    Residence Country: USA
    Record Type: Manifests
    Line Number: 18
    Source Citation
    The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Manifests of Passengers Arriving at St. Albans, VT, District through Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series Number: M1464; Roll Number: 589
    Source Information
    Ancestry.com. U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1825-1960

  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Leslie Howard, in Old Time Radio Downloads
    Retrieved 9 Aug 2017.

    Leslie Howard 04.03.1893 - 06.01.1943 (50 years old)
    Leslie Howard Collection: Best remembered as Scarlet O'Hara's obsession in Gone With the Wind, Ashley Wilkes, actor Leslie Howard had a reputation as "a perfect Englishman, slim, tall, intellectual and sensitive", and answered the call of his native land during WWII.

    Born Leslie Howard Steiner in London, 1893, his father was a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant merchant, and his mother who had been raised Christian came from German-Jewish extraction. Raised in the upper-middle-class, Leslie was educated at Alleyn's School in London and worked as a bank clerk before the outbreak of the First World War. He served with the Northamptonshire Yeomanry but suffered from shell shock and was invalided out of the service in 1916. His doctors recommended he take up acting as therapy. Howard married Ruth Evelyn Martin and began appearing in shows on London's West End, but he found his real success across the pond on Broadway. He appeared in Aren't We All? (1924), Outward Bound (1925), and The Green Hat (1925). He also displayed a keen understanding of how plays came together and often juggled duties as actor, producer, and director. He shared producing and directing credits for the fantasy Berkeley Square (1929) and starred in both the play and the 1933 film version. He also produced and starred in 1935's The Petrified Forest which ran for 197 performances featuring newcomer Humphrey Bogart as the "heavy".

  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Leslie Howard, in Wikidata
    (URL: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156178).

    date of birth: 3 April 1893
    place of birth: London
    date of death: 1 June 1943
    place of death: San Andrés de Teixido

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