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Leslie Howard
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Director, Producer, Actor Born: April 3, 1893 in London, England, UK Death: June 2, 1943 in Bay of Biscay Biography:Son of a London stockbroker, British actor "Leslie Howard" worked as a bank clerk after graduating from London's Dulwich School. Serving briefly in World War I, "Howard" was mustered out for medical reasons in 1918, deciding at that time to act for a living. Working in both England and the U.S. throughout the 1920s, "Howard" specialized in playing disillusioned intellectuals in such plays as "Outward Bound", the film version of which served as his 1930 film debut. Other films followed on both sides of the Atlantic, the best of these being "Howard"'s masterful star turn in "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1934). In 1935, "Howard" portrayed yet another disenchanted soul in "The Petrified Forest", which co-starred "Humphrey Bogart" as a gangster patterned after John Dillinger. "Howard" was tapped for the film version, but refused to make the movie unless Bogart was also hired (Warner Bros. had planned to use... Full Biography
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