Cast: Leslie Howard

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Leslie Howard. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Gone With the Wind

1939 · Movie · 238 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming · George Cukor · Sam Wood

Cast Vivien Leigh · Clark Gable · Olivia de Havilland · Leslie Howard

Plot When wealthy Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) learns that Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), whom she's secretly in love with, is engaged to Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), she decides...

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7.9

57K votes

7.9

57K votes

7.4

74 votes

Pygmalion

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith · Leslie Howard

Cast Leslie Howard · Wendy Hiller · Wilfrid Lawson · Marie Lohr

Plot The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass...

Max

7.0

844 votes

7.0

844 votes

The Petrified Forest

1936 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Genevieve Tobin

Plot This heartfelt drama about a gangster on the run is the film for which Humphrey Bogart first received wide-scale recognition. Bogie and costar Leslie Howard were both brought on board...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Of Human Bondage

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Frances Dee · Kay Johnson

Plot The interior life of a natural-born introvert is a tricky thing to convey in any story medium, but perhaps nowhere more than in feature films. Fortunately for this 1934 version...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

49th Parallel

1941 · Movie · 132 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Eric Portman · Leslie Howard · Laurence Olivier · Raymond Massey

Plot Michael Powell directed this odd wartime propaganda film, set in Canada, before the American entry into WWII. A German U-boat has infiltrated the Canadian coastline, seeking to attack and subvert...

Max

6.7

520 votes

6.7

520 votes

'Pimpernel' Smith

1941 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Howard

Cast Leslie Howard · Francis L. Sullivan · Mary Morris · Hugh McDermott

Plot It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent...

6.6

66 votes

6.6

66 votes

It's Love I'm After

1937 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Olivia de Havilland · Eric Blore

Plot 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...

6.6

143 votes

6.6

143 votes

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1934 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harold Young

Cast Leslie Howard · Joan Gardner · Merle Oberon · Raymond Massey

Plot From the famous novel by Baroness Orczy, this is the fictionalized story of Sir Percy Blakeney, the saviour of the French aristocracy during the bloody revolution of the 18th century....

Max

6.6

894 votes

6.6

894 votes

Intermezzo: A Love Story

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Leslie Howard · Ingrid Bergman · Edna Best · John Halliday

Plot After a successful tour ended in New York, the famous violinist Holger Brandt returns to his home in Stockholm. In the birthday party of his beloved daughter Ann Marie, he...

6.6

399 votes

6.6

399 votes

Smilin' Through

1932 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Norma Shearer · Fredric March · Leslie Howard · O.P. Heggie

Plot John has lead a solitary life for thirty years since the death of Moonyeen Clare. But now Owens, a close friend, insists that he care for his niece, Kathleen, orphaned...

6.2

61 votes

6.2

61 votes

Berkeley Square

1933 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Leslie Howard · Heather Angel · Valerie Taylor · Irene Browne

Plot A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

A Free Soul

1931 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Lionel Barrymore · Norma Shearer · Clark Gable · Leslie Howard

Plot Stephen Ashe, an upper class alcoholic defense attourney, successfully defends local mobster Ace Wilfong in a murder case. After his daughter Jan Ashe breaks her engagement to polo player Dwight...

6.1

137 votes

6.1

137 votes

The First of the Few

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Howard

Cast Leslie Howard · David Niven · Rosamund John · Roland Culver

Plot By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. But a holiday in Germany shortly after...

6.1

95 votes

6.1

95 votes

Stand-In

1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Leslie Howard · Joan Blondell · Humphrey Bogart · Alan Mowbray

Plot A timid accountant (Leslie Howard) tries to save a floundering Hollywood studio with the help of a sexy stand-in (Joan Blondell) and a cynical but big-hearted producer (Humphrey Bogart).

6.0

420 votes

6.0

420 votes

Romeo and Juliet

1936 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Leslie Howard · Norma Shearer · John Barrymore · Basil Rathbone

Plot The Montagues and the Capulets, two powerful families of Verona, hate each other. Romeo, son of Montague, crashes a Capulet party, and there meets Juliet, daughter of Capulet. They fall...

6.0

330 votes

6.0

330 votes

Secrets

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

5.9

34 votes

5.9

34 votes

British Agent

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Leslie Howard · Kay Francis · William Gargan · Phillip Reed

Plot An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.

5.5

35 votes

5.5

35 votes

The Animal Kingdom

1932 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Edward H. Griffith · George Cukor

Cast Ann Harding · Leslie Howard · Myrna Loy · William Gargan

Plot 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...

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