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Trevor Howard

Trevor Howard

Birthday: 1913-09-29 | Place of Birth: Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK

Howard 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".

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2018
Ludwig

as    Richard Wagner

2017
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

as    Narrator (fragment version)

1989
The Dawning

as    Grandfather

1988
The Unholy

as    Father Silva

1986
Shaka Zulu

as    Lord Charles Somerset

1986
Shaka Zulu

as    Lord Charles Somerset

1986
Peter the Great

as    Sir Isaac Newton

1984
George Washington

as    Lord Fairfax

1982
Gandhi

as    Judge Broomfield

1982
The Missionary

as    Lord Henry Ames

1982
Inside the Third Reich

as    Prof. Heinrich Tessenow

1981
The Sea Wolves

as    Jack Cartwright

1980
Windwalker

as    Windwalker

1979
Hurricane

as    Father Malone

1979
Meteor

as    Sir Michael Hughes

1978
Superman

as    1st Elder

1977
Aces High

as    Lieutenant Colonel Silkin

1977
The Last Remake of Beau Geste

as    Sir Hector

1976
The Adventures of Eliza Fraser

as    Capt. Foster Fyans

1976
Origins of the Mafia

as    Don Consalvo Saccone

1975
The Count of Monte-Cristo

as    Abbé Faria

1975
Conduct Unbecoming

as    Colonnello Benjamin Strang

1975
Hennessy

as    Comdr. Rice

1974
11 Harrowhouse

as    Clyde Massey

1974
Who?

as    Colonel Azarin

1974
Persecution

as    Paul Bellamy

1974
Craze

as    Supt. Bellamy

1973
The Offence

as    Lieutenant Cartwright, Detective Superintendant

1972
Pope Joan

as    Pope Leo