Trevor Howard
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| Born | Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith September 29, 1913 Cliftonville, Kent, England |
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| Died | January 7, 1988 (aged 74) Bushey, Hertfordshire, England |
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| Spouse(s) | Helen Cherry (1944-1988) | ||||||||||
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Trevor Howard, CBE (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988), born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, was an English film, stage and television actor.
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[edit] Early life
Howard was born in Cliftonville, Margate, Kent, England, he was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and acted on the London stage for several years before World War II.
Howard volunteered for the RAF but served in the British Army as a Second Lieutenant during World War II, and was invalided out of the Army in late 1943.
His courageous wartime service earned him much respect among fellow actors and fans alike. Howard recounted how he had parachuted into Nazi occupied Norway and fought in the Allied invasion of Sicily. However only after Howard's death, did files held in the Public Records Office reveal he had actually been discharged from the Army for mental instability and having a 'psychopathic personality' [1].
He married the actress Helen Cherry (1915-2001) on 8 September 1944.
[edit] Film career
His first major role was in the 1945 film, Brief Encounter. He also starred in The Third Man (1949), The Key (1958; based on a Jan de Hartog novel) and Sons and Lovers (1960), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
A character actor, many times appearing in war and period pieces, Howard later appeared in such films as Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Father Goose (1964), Morituri (1965), Von Ryan's Express (1965), Battle of Britain (1969), Ryan's Daughter (1970), Superman (1978), and Gandhi (1982). The Dawning (1988) was his final film. One of his strangest films, and one he took great delight in, was Vivian Stanshall's 1980 Sir Henry at Rawlinson End in which he played the title role.
Throughout his film career Howard insisted that all of his contracts held a clause excusing him from work whenever a cricket Test Match was being played.
A major television role was in Staying On (1980).
[edit] Death
He died from a combination of bronchitis, influenza and jaundice, in Arkley in 1988 at the age of 74, survived by his widow Helen.
[edit] Legacy
He is commemorated by the Trevor Howard Bar at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond.
[edit] Partial filmography
[edit] External links
- Trevor Howard at the Internet Movie Database
- Trevor Howard in the Archive of the University of Bristol
- Trevor Howard at Find A Grave
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