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Leslie Howard
Director 1893 - 1943

Leslie Howard

Forest Hill, London, England, UK

Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director and producer. He 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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

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2 titles
The First of the Few

The First of the Few

Leslie Howard 1942 1h 58m 6.0

Aircraft designer/patriot R. J. Mitchell, alarmed at growing German militarism, works to perfect a defense against the German Messerschmidt at the cost of his health.

Pygmalion

Pygmalion

Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith 1938 1h 36m 8.5

Henry Higgins (Howard) is an upper class phonetics professor who encounters low-class guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Hiller) and bets his friend Colonel Pickering (Scott Sunderland) that he can pass her off as a duchess within three months.

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