Born in 31 Westbourne Road, Forest Hill, London, England
Ancestors 
Son of Ferdinand Steiner
and Lilian (Blumberg) Steiner
Husband of
Ruth Evelyn (Martin) Howard
— married
3 Mar 1916 [location unknown]
Father of
Ronald Howard and Leslie Ruth Howard
Died
at age 50
in At sea over Bay of Biscay
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| Created 6 Nov 2015
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Biography
Leslie (Steiner) Howard is Notable.
English actor, producer, and film director. Best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
He was killed in 1943, while returning to England from vacation in Portugal, when his plane was shot down by Germans. Apparently, he was not a specific target. Any plane that was in that specific area was shot at.
The Peerage has his father as Frank Stainer.
He portrayed Reginald J Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire aeroplane, in the 1942 film "The First of the Few". [1]
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Howard is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). He had roles in many other notable films, including 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). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Berkeley Square and Pygmalion (wikipedia excerpt).