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  Leslie Howard (I)
Leslie Howard Stainer was born to Hungarian parents in London and went...
Oldest of five brothers: Dorice Howard; casting director Irene Howard;...
Leslie Howard, 1893 - 1943: Ashley, Higgins, and Blakeney
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  obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Leslie Howard
Shortly after graduation, Leslie began dabbling in acting, and is known to have made at least one film as early as 1914, though he supported himself as a bank clerk and not as a silent film star.
Howard married in 1916, taking Ruth Evelyn Martin as his wife shortly before abandoning banking to become a soldier during World War I. As Leslie Stainer, the future star of stage and screen underwent great trials in the war, being discharged with severe "shell shock" less than a year after reporting for duty.
Howard was by then an established star, and known for being competitive, meticulous and demanding: one costar reported that Howard counted script lines and had costars parts trimmed if their dialogue exceeded his own line count.
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  Science Fair Projects - Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard (April 3, 1893 - June 1, 1943) was a British film actor of Hungarian descent.
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).
Howard was married to Ruth Martin in 1916, they had two children, a son, Ronald, and a daughter, Leslie Ruth.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Leslie_Howard   (429 words)

  
 allmovie ((( Leslie Howard > Biography )))
Howard was tapped for the film version, but refused to make the movie unless Bogart was also hired (Warner Bros. had planned to use their resident gangster type, Edward G. Robinson).
Fiercely patriotic, Howard traveled extensively on behalf of war relief; on one of these trips, he boarded a British Overseas Airways plane in 1943 with several other British notables, flying en route from England to Lisbon.
Only after the war ended was it revealed that Howard had selflessly taken that plane ride knowing it would probably never arrive in Lisbon; it was ostensibly carrying Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and was sent out as a decoy so that Churchill's actual plane would be undisturbed by enemy fire.
www.allmovie.com /cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:94979~T1   (376 words)

  
 obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Leslie Howard
Howard married in 1916, taking Ruth Evelyn Martin as his wife shortly before abandoning banking to become a soldier during World War I. As Leslie Stainer, the future star of stage and screen underwent great trials in the war, being discharged with severe "shell shock" less than a year after reporting for duty.
Howard was by then an established star, and known for being competitive, meticulous and demanding: one costar reported that Howard counted script lines and had costars parts trimmed if their dialogue exceeded his own line count.
Howard, though in his mid 40s, was a hit as the young and disillusioned Southern aristocrat Ashley Wilkes in the film that set Oscar nomination records, and overshadowed his own success in "Pygmalion", which had earned him a second Oscar nod.
www.obits.com /howardleslie.html   (956 words)

  
 Leslie Howard Biography (1893-1943) | Gallery
Leslie Howard (born Leslie Howard Stainer) was born on the 3 April 1893 to Hungarian parents in London and went to Dulwich College.
Howard's first talkie, Outward Bound (1930), established him as an able leading man for movies, and he spent the rest of the decade bouncing back and forth between the U.S. and England.
Howard returned to his native England after World War 2 began, and was shot down by Nazi Luftwaffe fighter planes while flying from Portugal on the 1st June 1943 in the Bay of Biscay.
www.leninimports.com /leslie_howard.html   (611 words)

  
 Leslie Howard - Biography - Moviefone
Serving briefly in World War I, Howard was mustered out for medical reasons in 1918, deciding at that time to act for a living.
Howard was tapped for the film version, but refused to make the movie unless Bogart was also hired (Warner Bros. had planned to use their resident gangster type, Edward G. Robinson).
Fiercely patriotic, Howard traveled extensively on behalf of war relief; on one of these trips, he boarded a British Overseas Airways plane in 1943 with several other British notables, flying en route from England to Lisbon.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/leslie-howard/94979/biography   (408 words)

  
 About the Leslie Powell Foundation and Gallery
Leslie Powell was a painter and the only child of a local pharmacist who was an original stockholder in the Security Bank and Trust.
The current members of the Leslie Powell Foundation are John Kennedy and Paul Fisher, representing the Trust; Judy Garrett, representing Cameron University; Jane Godlove, representing the City of Lawton; and David W. Carter, representing the Lawton-Ft. Sill Art Council.
Roger Brown was the architect on the renovation project, and Dallas Howard was the contractor.
www.lpgallery.org /about.html   (765 words)

  
 Artist Page - Leslie Howard
The recital programmes that Leslie Howard gives on his extensive travels throughout the world are always noted for their communication of his personal joy in musical discovery, and his playing for its combination of intellectual command and pianistic spontaneity.
Leslie Howard’s work as a composer encompasses opera, orchestral music, chamber music, sacred music and songs, and his facility in completing unfinished works has resulted in commissions as diverse as a new realisation of Bach's Musical Offering and completions of works by composers such as Mozart, Liszt and Tchaikovsky.
Leslie Howard was born in Australia, educated there, in Italy and in England, and he has made his home in London for many years.
www.hyperion-records.com /artist_page.asp?name=howard   (1629 words)

  
 Leslie Howard   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Leslie Howard Stainer was born at Forest Hill, London on April 3rd 1893.
Howard became best known for his role in David O. Selznick's "Gone With the Wind" (1939) where he played Ashley Wilkes opposite the fiesty Southern Belle, Scarlet O'Hara (Vivian Leigh).
On June 1st 1943, Howard was returning from a lecture tour of Spain and Portugal on behalf of the British Council.
www.deareverybody.net /site/leslie_howard.html   (393 words)

  
 Leslie Howard (I) - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Leslie Howard Stainer was born to Hungarian parents in London and went to Dulwich College.
Leslie Howard Stainer was born in Forest Hill on 3rd April, 1893.
Humphrey Bogart was so grateful at Howard's insistence that he repeat his stage performance in the film of The Petrified Forest (1936), the role that proved to be his big break in movies, that he named his daughter Leslie in Howard's honor.
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 Leslie Howard - Films as actor:, Films as producer:, Films as director:
Whether or not his characters were brave, Howard usually played men of superior intellect—Henry Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion, a writer in The Petrified Forest, a violinist in Intermezzo, a professor in Pimpernel Smith, a well-read humanist in The 49th Parallel, and an aeronautical engineer in Spitfire.
Howard's characters liked and respected women (as Howard did in real life) and, with the exception of Professor Higgins, let them be.
Howard appeared in 25 films in 13 years, giving his most acclaimed performances in Berkeley Square (nominated for the 1933 Academy Award), Of Human Bondage, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Pygmalion (nominated for the 1938 Academy Award).
www.filmreference.com /Actors-and-Actresses-Ha-Hu/Howard-Leslie.html   (956 words)

  
 Liszt: Complete Music for Solo Piano Vol 53a / Leslie Howard Classical
This score was prepared by Leslie Howard for this recording from the manuscript sources.
Volumes 53a and 53b (Hyperion 67403/4) of Leslie Howard's Herculean undertaking were released at about the same as the pianist finished the last of the series' recordings in 1998, more than thirteen years after the first sessions.
Howard's pianism and his intimate knowledge of the music are at the fore here.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1115081/a/Liszt%3A+Complete+Music+for+Solo+Piano+Vol+53a+%2F+Leslie+Howard.htm   (665 words)

  
 Horses - Leslie Howard Named Athlete of the Month for December - Horse News from the Equiworld Magazine - January 2002
Gladstone, New Jersey –December 31, 2001– United States Equestrian Team (USET) Olympic veteran Leslie Burr Howard of Westport, CT was named USET Athlete of the Month for December after she won the Grand Prix and World Cup class at CSI-W Amsterdam, December 13-16, and the Grand Prix at CSI-A Maastricht on December 2.
Howard riding Higher Ground Farm’s Priobert de Kalvarie had double clear rounds in both classes at Amsterdam to beat an impressive field of international riders that included 2000 Olympic individual Gold Medalist Jereon Dubbeldam of The Netherlands and Germany’s two-time team Gold Medalist, Ludger Beerbaum.
Howard was honored by the USET in January of 1997 with the Whitney Stone Cup for long and meritorious service.
www.equiworld.net /uk/ezine/0102/uset01.htm   (462 words)

  
 Artist Page - Leslie Howard
The recital programmes that Leslie Howard gives on his extensive travels throughout the world are always noted for their communication of his personal joy in musical discovery, and his playing for its combination of intellectual command and pianistic spontaneity.
Leslie Howard’s work as a composer encompasses opera, orchestral music, chamber music, sacred music and songs, and his facility in completing unfinished works has resulted in commissions as diverse as a new realisation of Bach's Musical Offering and completions of works by composers such as Mozart, Liszt and Tchaikovsky.
Leslie Howard was born in Australia, educated there, in Italy and in England, and he has made his home in London for many years.
www.hyperion-records.co.uk /artist_page.asp?name=howard   (1629 words)

  
 Musica Viva Australia - Touring   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A resident of London since 1972, Australia-born Howard recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of his London debut with an internationally telecast award ceremony at Buckingham palace.
Leslie Howard has recorded the entire solo piano music of Liszt, for the Hyperion label.
Leslie Howard is available for touring in Australia in March, April and May 2006.
www.mva.org.au /touring/Performer.aspx?id=650   (166 words)

  
 Leslie Howard Biography
Leslie Howard was a Hollywood and Broadway star in the 1930s and represented the best of Englishness for Americans, and on his return to Britain came to represent England's ideals for the English.
Howard's English qualities come together in 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941), which he also produced and directed.
Howard's best known part may be as Ashley in Gone With the Wind (1939), but he was best loved as the ideal Englishman: patriotism with a light touch, often whimsical, sometimes comic, never too serious to be jingoistic.
www.britmovie.co.uk /actors/h/007.html   (171 words)

  
 screenonline: Howard, Leslie (1893-1943) Biography
Intending Leslie to follow in his footsteps, he secured him a job as a bank clerk, but the acting bug had already bitten thanks to his mother's fondness for amateur dramatics, and Leslie would take on her adopted maiden name as his own.
Bogart and Howard became firm friends, and many years after the latter's death Bogart named his daughter Leslie as a tribute to the man who launched his screen career.
It is still not clear whether Howard was mistaken for Winston Churchill (who was also travelling in the region) or whether he was the intended target.
www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/476673/index.html   (975 words)

  
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However in the light of what British Intelligence and the Foreign Office must have known about the threats against Howard from Berlin, the decision to transport him on a civil airliner, and the potential risk it posed the innocent passengers and crew could be considered questionable.
So while there are those who suggest Howard sacrificed himself to protect the Prime Minister of England, it is more likely the British Government that may have inadvertantly sacrificed Leslie Howard, along with those aboard Flight 777, in the propaganda war that Howard himself was so much a part of.
Leslie Howard's accountant and travelling companion, Alfred Tregear Chenhalls, vaguely resembled Churchill and many stories have circulated that he was a Churchill 'double' deliberately placed on the ill fated KLM airliner.
www.lycos.com /info/leslie-howard.html   (737 words)

  
 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition
Leslie Howard has given a Liszt Piano Masterclass in Vredenburg Utrecht on Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 April 2007.
Leslie Howard and several selected pianists have performed on Thursday 12 April in the Philharmonie Haarlem.
The Masterclass was organized by the Liszt Competition together with the Young Pianist Foundation (YPF) and was used as part of the preparations for the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition.
www.liszt.nl /english/masterclasses   (384 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Petrified Forest: DVD: Leslie Howard,Bette Davis,Genevieve Tobin,Dick Foran,Humphrey Bogart,Joe ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Adapted from a hit Broadway play by Robert Sherwood and starring original cast members Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart, this 1936 suspense drama is set in an aging desert roadhouse café, where a young woman (Bette Davis) dreams of escaping a dead-end existence spent with her father and a lunkheaded, would-be suitor.
Howard plays gentle roustabout Alan Squier, an esthete young man hitchhiking across America, `looking for something to believe in.' The wind shakes him out of the even present dust and deposits him at the isolated Arizona diner young Gabrielle Maple (Bette Davis) runs with her father and grandfather.
First there is Alan Squier (Leslie Howard), a disillusioned writer and intellectual who realizes he is a member of a vanishing breed of men whose visions of a Utopian existence have given way to the oppressive realities of a world that no longer has any room for his type of dreamer...
www.amazon.com /Petrified-Forest-Leslie-Howard/dp/B0006HBV2I   (2497 words)

  
 Prisma: Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard Ende ist tragisch: Als er 1943 für eine Film-Werbetour Lissabon besucht, wird er auf dem Rückflug von Deutschen abgeschossen - sie vermuteten Churchill in dem Flugzeug.
Zu Leslie Howards bedeutenden Rollen zählt der Philip in William Sommerset Maughams oft verfilmtem Roman "Des Menschen Hörigkeit" (1934) unter der Regie von Cromwell.
Howard, dessen Bruder Arthur Howard ebenfalls Schauspieler war, ist der Vater des Schauspielers Ronald Howard.
www.prisma-online.de /tv/person.html?pid=leslie_howard   (487 words)

  
 Leslie Powell Gallery - Tour the Gallery
The Leslie Powell Foundation initially occupied the second floor of the Little Chapel of Lawton, where it conducted monthly art exhibits and functions.
When the Leslie Powell Program outgrew that location, the Foundation wanted to keep the Gallery in the downtown area, and opted to renovate an existing structure in the historic section of downtown Lawton to suit the needs of the growing Program.
The building that now houses the Gallery was apparently built in the mid-1920s as part of the second wave of central business district construction when brick structures were being built instead of the early wooden structures.
www.lpgallery.org /gallery_tour.html   (238 words)

  
 HorseWeb: Press Releases: Leslie Howard and Youp Sweep Week One at WEF with Win in $50,000 Farr XTN Grand Prix of Palm ...
Youp and Leslie Howard, winners of the Thursday's $25,000 WEF Challenge Series Round One, riding out of the fifty-ninth spot on the roster, produced the fourth and final clean round.
Howard not only produced a second clean effort of the day, but she did it in the fastest time as well, a handy 38.01 seconds for the win.
Howard was asked about the new FTI Rider Challenge, a new bonus program rewarding riders with the most points over the course of the festival, "I think it's highly unlikely that I'll win that," she laughed.
www.horseweb.com /articles/press/2006/phelps_wef_0201_howard.htm   (1416 words)

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