Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 29, 1913
Died
Jan 07, 1988
Place of Birth
Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK
Credits
120 titles
Trevor Howard
Biography
Trevor Howard (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) was a British actor. He was born in Cliftonville, Kent, England, the son of Mabel Grey (Wallace) and Arthur John Howard. He was educated at Clifton College (to which he left in his will a substantial legacy for a drama scholarship) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), acting on the London stage for several years before World War II. His first paid work was in the play Revolt in a Reformatory (1934), before he left RADA in 1935 to take small roles. Although stories of his courageous wartime service in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals earned him much respect among fellow actors and fans alike, files held in the Public Record Office reveal that he had actually been discharged from the British Army in 1943 for mental instability and having a "psychopathic personality". The story, which surfaced in Terence Pettigrew's biography of the actor, published by Peter Owen in 2001, was initially denied by Howard's widow, actress Helen Cherry. Later, confronted with official records, she told the Daily Telegraph (24 June 2001) that his mother had claimed he was a holder of the Military Cross. She added that Howard had an honourable military record and "had nothing to be ashamed of".
Known For
Filmography
The Dawning
Grandfather
The Unholy
Father Silva
White Mischief
Jack Soames
Hand in Glove
Vicar
Christmas Eve
Maitland
Shaka Zulu
Lord Charles Somerset
Foreign Body
Dr Stirry
Peter the Great
Sir Isaac Newton
Time After Time
Brigadier Croshawe
Time for Murder
Sir Daniel Penwarden
Dust
Father
Memory of the Camps
Narrator
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Georg Friedrich Handel
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The King
The Bengal Lancers!
Uncle George
George Washington
Lord Fairfax
Frontline
Narrator (voice)
Gandhi
Judge Broomfield
The Missionary
Lord Henry Ames
The Deadly Game
Gustave Kummer
Inside the Third Reich
Prof. Heinrich Tessenow
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Self
Light Years Away
Yoshka Poliakeff
Ludwig
Richard Wagner
Staying On
Col. Tusker Smalley
Windwalker
Windwalker
Superman II
Krypton Elder (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Sir Henry Rawlinson
The Sea Wolves
Jack Cartwright
The Shillingbury Blowers
Saltie
Flashpoint Africa
Program Controller
Meteor
Sir Michael Hughes
Hurricane
Father Malone
The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
Riviere
Superman
1st Elder
Stevie
The Man
Scorpion Tales
Mavor
Slavers
Alec Mackenzie
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Sir Hector
The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
Capt. Foster Fyans
Origins of the Mafia
Don Consalvo Saccone
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Squire Western
Aces High
Lieutenant Colonel Silkin
Albino
Johannes
Hennessy
Comdr. Rice
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Abbé Faria
Conduct Unbecoming
Colonel Benjamin Strang
Persecution
Paul Bellamy
11 Harrowhouse
Clyde Massey
Spécial cinéma
Self