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Leslie Howard Steiner was an English stage and film 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.
Birth Name
Leslie Howard Steiner
Born
Monday, 03 April 1893
Died
Tuesday, 01 June 1943
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Churchill and the Movie Mogul | Self | 2019 |
| Spitfire | RJ. Mitchell | 2018 |
| America in Color | Self | 2017 |
| Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2015 |
| Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012 |
| Waiting for Hockney | Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel | 2008 |
| Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
| Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland | Himself (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Broadway: The American Musical | Higgins | 2004 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Churchill and the Movie Mogul | Self | 2019 |
| Spitfire | RJ. Mitchell | 2018 |
| America in Color | Self | 2017 |
| Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2015 |
| Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012 |
| Waiting for Hockney | Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel | 2008 |
| Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
| Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland | Himself (archive footage) | 2004 |
| Broadway: The American Musical | Higgins | 2004 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| Vanishings! | Self | 2001 |
| Glorious Technicolor | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1998 |
| The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1997 |
| Bogart: The Untold Story | 1997 | |
| Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Holger Brandt / Self (archive footage) | 1996 |
| Classic Movie Bloopers | Self | 1990 |
| The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self / (archive footage) | 1988 |
| South of Reno | Philip | 1988 |
| Best of British | (archive footage) | 1987 |
| Biography | (archive footage) | 1987 |
| Bloopermania | Self | 1987 |
| Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984 |
| Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self | 1983 |
| The Happy Ending | Self - Actor in 'Smilin' Through' | 1969 |
| Hollywood My Home Town | Self | 1965 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Alan Squier | 1963 |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Holger Brandt | 1961 |
| MGM Parade | Dwight Winthrop | 1955 |
| Some of the Best | Dwight Winthrop | 1944 |
| The Gentle Sex | 'Observations of a Mere Man' spoken by / Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 1943 |
| In Which We Serve | Narrator | 1942 |
| Spitfire | R.J. Mitchell | 1942 |
| The White Eagle | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 1942 |
| 49th Parallel | Philip Armstrong Scott | 1941 |
| From the Four Corners | Himself (as A Passer-By) / Self | 1941 |
| 'Pimpernel' Smith | Professor Horatio Smith | 1941 |
| Gone with the Wind | Ashley - His Son / Ashley Wilkes | 1940 |
| Intermezzo | Holger Brandt | 1939 |
| Pygmalion | Henry Higgins / Professor Henry Higgins | 1939 |
| Stand-In | Atterbury Dodd | 1937 |
| It's Love I'm After | Basil Underwood | 1937 |
| Breakdowns of 1936 | Himself / Self | 1936 |
| Romeo and Juliet | Romeo - Son to Montague / Romeo | 1936 |
| The Petrified Forest | Alan Squier | 1936 |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel | 1935 |
| British Agent | Stephen Locke / Stephen 'Steve' Locke | 1934 |
| The Lady Is Willing | Albert Latour | 1934 |
| Of Human Bondage | Philip Carey / Philip | 1934 |
| Berkeley Square | Peter Standish | 1933 |
| Captured! | Capt. Fred Allison / Captain Fred Allison | 1933 |
| Secrets | John Carlton | 1933 |
| The Animal Kingdom | Tom | 1932 |
| Smilin' Through | Sir John Carteret | 1932 |
| Reserved for Ladies | Max Tracey | 1932 |
| Devotion | David Trent | 1931 |
| A Free Soul | Dwight Winthrop | 1931 |
| Five and Ten | Berry Rhodes | 1931 |
| Never the Twain Shall Meet | Dan Pritchard / Dan | 1931 |
| Outward Bound | Tom Prior | 1930 |
| The Lackey and the Lady | Tony Dunciman | 1919 |
| The Happy Warrior | Rollo | 1917 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| The Lamp Still Burns | 1943 |
| The Gentle Sex | 1943 |
| Spitfire | 1942 |
| 'Pimpernel' Smith | 1941 |
| Pygmalion | 1939 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| The Lamp Still Burns | 1943 |
| The Gentle Sex | 1943 |
| Spitfire | 1942 |
| 'Pimpernel' Smith | 1941 |
| Intermezzo | 1939 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1939 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 1934 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
