Leslie Howard (born
Leslie Howard Steiner, 3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English stage and film actor, director, and producer. Probably best remembered for playing
Ashley Wilkes in
Gone with the Wind (1939), he also appeared in
Berkeley Square (1933),
Of Human Bondage (1934),
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934),
The Petrified Forest (1936),
Pygmalion (1938),
Intermezzo (1939),
"Pimpernel" Smith (1941) and
The First of the Few (1942).