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Leslie Howard

1893 - 1943

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Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer. 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 Britain and Hollywood, Howard played Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leslie Howard has received more than 2,491,163 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Leslie Howard is the 534th most popular actor (down from 449th in 2019), the 668th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 595th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular British Actor.

Leslie Howard is most famous for his portrayal of Ashley Wilkes in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Leslie Howard ranks 534 out of 13,578. Before him are Michèle Morgan, Richard E. Grant, George Gaynes, Totò, John Cassavetes, and Bette Midler. After him are Mildred Harris, Tom Waits, Richard Dreyfuss, Eleonora Duse, Tippi Hedren, and Karlheinz Böhm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Leslie Howard ranks 37. Before him are Fritz Perls, Andrés Segovia, Juana Bormann, Miroslav Krleža, Edward G. Robinson, and Viktor Shklovsky. After him are Hans Fallada, Walter Baade, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Lili Boulanger, Mae West, and Lillian Gish. Among people deceased in 1943, Leslie Howard ranks 27. Before him are Maurice Denis, Julius Fučík, Beatrix Potter, Gustav Vigeland, Max Reinhardt, and Jean Moulin. After him are Etty Hillesum, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Hans Scholl, Franz Oppenheimer, Mordechai Anielewicz, and André Antoine.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leslie Howard ranks 668 out of 8,785. Before him are Desmond Llewelyn (1914), Karl Pearson (1857), Sean Bean (1959), John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924), John Snow (1813), and Edgar Adrian (1889). After him are Bill Wyman (1936), Oliver Smithies (1925), Thomas Chippendale (1718), Gladwyn Jebb (1900), James Bradley (1693), and Brian Cox (1946).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Leslie Howard ranks 82. Before him are Joan Collins (1933), Robert Carlyle (1961), Tilda Swinton (1960), Charles Laughton (1899), Desmond Llewelyn (1914), and Sean Bean (1959). After him are Brian Cox (1946), Jessica Tandy (1909), Peter Finch (1916), Jim Broadbent (1949), Oliver Reed (1938), and Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765).

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Television and Movie Roles

Gone with the Wind
Ashley Wilkes
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Dec 15th 19397.941 / 10
The Petrified Forest
Alan Squier
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
Feb 8th 19367 / 10
Pygmalion
Henry Higgins
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Mar 3rd 19396.985 / 10