Leslie Howard — Actor (12)
The Petrified Forest (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Petrified Forest
director: Archie Mayo actor: Leslie Howard / Bette Davis
other title: La foresta pietrificata / A Floresta Petrificada
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.
It's Love I'm After (1937) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
It's Love I'm After
director: Archie Mayo actor: Leslie Howard / Bette Davis
other title: 我所追逐的是爱情 / Avventura a mezzanotte
Basil Underwood and Joyce Arden have postponed their marriage eleven times. Henry Grant's fiancée Marcia is infatuated with Basil. At Henry's request Basil acts boorishly so as to kill the infatuation, but it doesn't work and Marcia breaks her engagement with Henry. With Marcia about to announce her intentions vis-a-vis Basil, Joyce shows her pictures of children, apparently Basil's. Marcia goes back to Henry and Joyce decides she'd better tie Basil down soon.
Pygmalion (1939) [Movie] TMDB
Pygmalion
director: Anthony Asquith / Leslie Howard actor: Leslie Howard / Wendy Hiller
other title: Pigmalione / Der Roman eines Blumenmädchens
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.
The Animal Kingdom (1932) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Animal Kingdom
director: Edward H. Griffith actor: Ann Harding / Leslie Howard
other title: El reino animal
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.
In Which We Serve (1942) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData TMDB
In Which We Serve
director: Noël Coward / David Lean actor: Noël Coward / John Mills
other title: Eroi del mare / Havet er vor skæbne
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
49th Parallel (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData Douban
49th Parallel
director: Michael Powell actor: Leslie Howard / Laurence Olivier
other title: Gli invasori - 49° parallelo / 49. breddegrad
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
"Pimpernel" Smith (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
"Pimpernel" Smith
director: Leslie Howard actor: Leslie Howard / Francis L. Sullivan
other title: La Primula Smith / O Professor Smith
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
A Free Soul (1931) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Free Soul
director: Clarence Brown actor: Norma Shearer / Leslie Howard
other title: Io amo / Der Mut zum Glück
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Of Human Bondage (1934) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Of Human Bondage
director: John Cromwell actor: Leslie Howard / Bette Davis
other title: Schiavo d'amore / L'Emprise
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Berkeley Square (1933) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Berkeley Square
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Leslie Howard / Heather Angel
other title: La plaza de Berkeley / Gengangeren på Berkeley Square
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.