Leslie Howard (April 3, 1893 – June 1, 1943) was a British film actor. Born Leslie Howard Stainer to a Hungarian Jewish father and an English Jewish mother in Forest Hill, London, Howard's classic good looks won him his first screen role in a 1914 silent film, following which he served in World War I, his military career being cut short due to case of severe shell shock. Jump to: navigation, search April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Jump to: navigation, search Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Jump to: navigation, search The English people are an indigenous European ethnic group originating in the lowlands of Great Britain and today represent a fairly homogenous composite population descended from a combination of Anglo-Saxons and Celts with Scandinavians, Jutes, and Normans, with minor recent mixture with other groups worldwide. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Forest Hill, London sits nestled between the twin giants of Dulwich and Sydenham in South London. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... The military term combat stress reaction (CSR) comprises the range of adverse behaviours in reaction to the stress of combat and combat related activities. ...

Bette Davis and Howard in Maugham's
Of Human Bondage (1934).

Howard proceeded to play stiff-upper-lipped Englishmen in films such as Berkeley Square (1933, for which he was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), Pygmalion (1938) (in which he played Professor Higgins, and earned another Oscar nomination), and Pimpernel Smith (1941). This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... This article is about Bette Davis the actress; there is also a singer named Betty Davis. ... W. Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten. ... See also: 1933 in film 1934 1935 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn (of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finally purchased the film rights to The Wizard of Oz from Frank J. Baum for $40,000. ... One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises self-restraint in the expression of emotion. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Official language None; English is de facto Capital London Capitals coordinates 51° 30 N, 0° 10 W Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831... Berkeley Square is a town square in the West End of London in the City of Westminster, originally laid out in the mid 18th century by architect William Kent. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic adventure novel by Baroness Orczy. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw written in 1913. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1936, Howard appeared in the film The Petrified Forest. It was Howard who insisted that Humphrey Bogart appear in the film as gangster Duke Mantee. They had appeared in the play together on Broadway. Howard and Bogart became lifelong friends; the Bogarts named their daughter Leslie Howard after him. Jump to: navigation, search 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Petrified Forest (1936) is a predecessor to film noir with an original screenplay by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon, from the play by Robert Sherwood. ... Jump to: navigation, search Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an iconic American actor who retains legendary status decades after his death. ... Jump to: navigation, search Gangsters are members of a professional crime organisation, such as a gang or a mafia group. ... This article is about the street in New York City. ...

His blue-blood persona landed him the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939), but he was uncomfortable with Hollywood and returned to Britain to help with the war effort. He directed and starred in a number of World War II films, including The First of the Few (1942), a biopic of Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell, and Pimpernel Smith (1941), an updated version of The Scarlet Pimpernel. In 1943, he visited Lisbon (some say on a secret mission), and, on the return flight, his plane was shot down by the Luftwaffe over the Bay of Biscay, possibly because the Germans believed the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, to be on board. Ashley Wilkes is a fictional character in Gone With the Wind, the man with whom Scarlett OHara is obsessed. ... Gone with the Wind is considered as one of the greatest films of all time. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... ... Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that... The First of the Few, (known as Spitfire in the United States), is a 1942 British film, starring and directed by Leslie Howard, and co-starring David Niven. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year. ... The Supermarine Spitfire was a single-seat fighter used by the RAF and many Allied countries in World War II. The Spitfires elliptical wings gave it a very distinctive look; their thin cross-section gave it speed; the brilliant design of Chief Designer R.J. Mitchell and his successors... Reginald Joseph Mitchell (20 May 1895-11 June 1937) was an aeronautical engineer, most notable for his design of the Supermarine Spitfire. ... Pimpernel Smith is a 1941 propaganda film, directed by and starring Leslie Howard, which updates the Scarlet Pimpernel story from Revolutionary France to World War II Europe. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Pedro Santana Lopes PSD Area 84. ... Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as aeroplanes in Commonwealth English (excluding Canada) or airplanes in North American English. ... The Luftwaffe ( ♫) (German: air force, IPA: [luftvafÉ™]) is the commonly used term for the German air force. ... ESA photo, phytoplankton bloom along the Bay of Biscay Not to be confused with the North American Biscayne Bay. ... In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, FRS, PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ...

Howard was married to Ruth Martin in 1916. They had two children, a son, Ronald, and a daughter, Leslie Ruth, both of whom wrote biographies of their father. His younger brother, Arthur, was also an actor, primarily in British comedies. Jump to: navigation, search 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Ronald Howard (7 April 1918 – 19 December 1996) was a British actor and writer, the son of actor Leslie Howard, best known in the U.S. for starring in a Sherlock Holmes weekly television series in 1955 produced by Sheldon Reynolds. ...