Trevor Howard

Actor

About

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Birth Place

Cliftonville, England, GB

Born

September 29, 1916

Died

January 07, 1988

Cause of Death

Influenza And Bronchitis Complicated By Jaundice

Biography

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One of the finest film actors of his generation. Howard began his career in the 1940s and excelled at playing debonair officers and gentlemen, carving a niche in his latter years as England's favorite screen autocrat. His understated performance opposite Celia Johnson in David Lean's "Brief Encounter" (1945) brought him to international attention and led to work with a distinguished rost...

Filmography

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The Dawning (1988)

White Mischief (1988)

The Unholy (1988)

Time After Time (1987)

Brigadier Croshawe

Foreign Body (1986)

Christmas Eve (1986)

Photos & Videos

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Ryan's Daughter (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Good Luck To All Irishmen

Ryan's Daughter (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Is No One Going To Kiss The Bride?

Family & Companions

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Helen Cherry

Wife

Actor. Born on November 24, 1915; married in 1944 until 1988; died on September 27, 2001.

Anouk Aimee

Companion

Actor. Had affair in 1950.

Bibliography

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"Trevor Howard: A Personal Biography"

Terence Pettigrew, Peter Owen (2001)

Notes

"Trevor was so insensitive he didn't know what he was doing half the time." --director David Lean on Howard's work in "Brief Encounter" (1945).

Biography

One of the finest film actors of his generation. Howard began his career in the 1940s and excelled at playing debonair officers and gentlemen, carving a niche in his latter years as England's favorite screen autocrat. His understated performance opposite Celia Johnson in David Lean's "Brief Encounter" (1945) brought him to international attention and led to work with a distinguished roster of directors including Luchino Visconti, Joseph Losey and Tony Richardson. Howard enjoyed his most productive association with Carol Reed, memorably as the police major with an impeccably stiff upper lip in "The Third Man" (1949) and as the often unsympathetic but realistically complex protagonist of "An Outcast of the Islands" (1951).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Dawning (1988)

White Mischief (1988)

The Unholy (1988)

Time After Time (1987)

Brigadier Croshawe

Foreign Body (1986)

Christmas Eve (1986)

Sword Of The Valiant (1984)

Sherlock Holmes' The Sign of Four (1983)

Les Annees lumieres (1981)

The Missionary (1981)

The Shillingbury Blowers (1980)

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)

The Sea Wolves (1980)

Windwalker (1980)

Smiling Wolf; Twin Brother; Windwalker

Hurricane (1979)

Flashpoint Africa (1978)

Programs Controller

Superman:The Movie (1978)

The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)

Aces High (1977)

Eliza Fraser (1976)

Captain Foster Fyans

The Bawdy Adventures Of Tom Jones (1976)

The Count of Monte Cristo (1975)

Conduct Unbecoming (1975)

Hennessy (1975)

Whispering Death (1975)

11 Harrowhouse (1974)

Persecution (1974)

Superintendent Bellamy

A Doll's House (1973)

The Offense (1973)

Catholics (1973)

Pope Joan (1972)

The Night Visitor (1971)

Lola's grandfather

Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)

William Cecil [Lord Burghley]

Catch Me a Spy (1971)

Kidnapped (1971)

Lord Advocate; Lord Grant

Ryan's Daughter (1970)

Battle of Britain (1969)

Air Vice Marshal Keith Park

A Matter of Innocence (1968)

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

Triple Cross (1967)

Distinguished civilian

The Long Duel (1967)

The Liquidator (1966)

Von Ryan's Express (1965)

Maj. Eric Fincham

Morituri (1965)

Colonel Statter

Operation Crossbow (1965)

Professor Lindemann

Father Goose (1964)

Comdr. Frank Houghton

Man in the Middle (1964)

Major Kensington

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

Capt. William Bligh

The Lion (1962)

Sons and Lovers (1960)

The Roots of Heaven (1958)

Pickup Alley (1957)

Stowaway Girl (1957)

The Cockleshell Heroes (1956)

Captain [Hugh] Thompson

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Fallentin, member of Reform Club

Run for the Sun (1956)

Lovers' Net (1955)

The Heart of the Matter (1954)

The Gift Horse (1953)

La Mano dello Straniero (1953)

Outcast of the Islands (1951)

Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)

The Clouded Yellow (1950)

The Third Man (1949)

The Golden Salamander (1949)

The Passionate Friends (1949)

They Made Me a Fugitive (1948)

So Well Remembered (1947)

[Dr. Richard] Whiteside

I See A Dark Stranger (1946)

Green For Danger (1946)

The Way to the Stars (1945)

Brief Encounter (1945)

Immortal Battalion (1944)

Sound (Feature Film)

I Married a Monster (1998)

I Married a Monster (1998)

Foley Recordist

Cast (Special)

Deadly Game (1982)

Staying On (1981)

Eagle in a Cage (1965)

Tonight at 8:30 (1954)

Alec Harvey (Story 2)

Cast (Short)

Ryan's Daughter (Featurette) (1970)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Shaka Zulu (1986)

Peter the Great (1986)

George Washington (1984)

Inside the Third Reich (1982)

Professor Heinrich Tessenow

The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)

Life Events

1934

British stage acting debut

1944

Film acting debut in "The Way Ahead"

Photo Collections

Operation Crossbow - Comic Book

Here are a few pages from Operation Crossbow, a comic book adaptation of the 1965 thriller, as published by Dell Comics.

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - Publicity Art

Here are some specialty drawings created by MGM for newspaper and magazine reproduction to publicize Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard.

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - Pressbook

Here is the original campaign book (pressbook) for MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). Pressbooks were sent to exhibitors and theater owners to aid them in publicizing the film's run in their theater.

Superman: The Movie - Program

Here is the official Movie Program from Warner Bros' Superman: The Movie (1978), starring Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Margot Kidder, and Gene Hackman.

Green for Danger - Movie Poster

Here is the American One-Sheet Movie Poster from the British film Green for Danger (1946), starring Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, and Trevor Howard. One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

Videos

Ryan's Daughter (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Good Luck To All Irishmen In Ireland during the First World War, widower schoolteacher Charles (Robert Mitchum) returning from Dublin, at the pub with Father Collins (Trevor Howard), Ryan (Leo McKern), McArdle (Archie O'Sullivan) and Brit soldiers, early in David Lean's Ryan's Daughter, 1970.

Ryan's Daughter (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Is No One Going To Kiss The Bride? At their wedding party in rural Ireland, 1916, the bride Rosy (Sarah Miles) is overwhelmed by attention, especially outcast Michael (John Mills), rescued by Charles (Robert Mitchum) her widower husband, her father (Leo McKern) and the priest (Trevor Howard) monitoring, in David Lean’s Ryan’s Daughter, 1970.

Night Visitor, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) I'm The Insane One Trevor Howard as the never-named “Inpsector” is visiting asylum inmate and innocent-but-framed murderer Salem (Max Von Sydow), who insists he couldn’t have escaped to commit revenge murders, though we know he did, in the English-language Swedish-made thriller released by Warner Bros., The Night Visitor, 1971.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Churchill Telling Lies Nurse Freddi Linley (Sally Gray) doing rounds at the provincial English military hospital, comes upon suave surgeon Eden (Leo Genn), expressing concern about her relations with her fiancè, his junior colleague, when buzz-bombs intrude, followed by the high-strung chief O-R nurse Bates (Judy Campbell) and a delirious patient, parroting what sounds like Nazi radio propaganda, in the dark Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat mystery Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) You're In His Way Part of another elaborate set-piece in the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat production, the hospital dance, Dr Eden (Leo Genn) counsels distraught nurse Esther (Rosamund John) about his ex-lover, her deceased mother, then nurse Bates (Judy Campbell) seethes toward Dr. Barnes (Trevor Howard) whose fianceè nurse Freddi (Sally Gray) becomes his next partner, in Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) A Tatty Little Hospital Hop Interlocking exposition in a complex post-operative scene, surgeon Eden (Leo Genn) speaks with the engaged-but-arguing anesthetist Barnes and nurse Linley (Trevor Howard, Sally Gray), then nurse Woods (Megs Jenkins) and overseeing Sister Bates (Judy Campbell), nurse Esther Sanson (Rosamund John) also involved, early in the acclaimed English wartime murder mystery Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) He Was The First To Die Alastair Sim narrates as Inspector Cockrill and Moore Marriott features as postman Higgins, followed by a roll call introducing Leo Genn, Megs Jenkins, Rosamund John, Judy Campbell, Sally Gray and Trevor Howard, then Ronald Adam as the administrator Dr. White, all at an English military hospital, in the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat mystery, in the first production completed at London’s Pinewood Studios after the end of WWII, Green For Danger, 1946.

Green For Danger (1946) -- (Movie Clip) There'll Have To Be An Inquest The new administrator (Ronald Adam as Dr. White) confers with his doctors, Trevor Howard as the anesthetist Barnes, Leo Genn as surgeon Eden and Henry Edwards as Purdy about the unexplained death of the postman, during surgery and a German air raid at a military hospital, in the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat mystery Green For Danger, 1946.

Night Visitor, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Salem Probably an unexpected dude in underwear (Max Von Sydow), first thing to appear in a snowbound coastal landscape (established in the credits), centered on what we’ll learn is an asylum in Sweden, Hungarian-born Laslo Benedek directing, in the Swedish-made English-language thriller The Night Visitor, 1971, also starring Trevor Howard and Liv Ullmann.

Morituri (1965) -- (Movie Clip) You Have No Family First scene for both, British Colonel Slatter (Trevor Howard) in India advises "Crain" (Marlon Brando) that he knows he faked his identity, and he's about to help the allies, in Morituri, 1965, from the novel by Werner Joerg Luddecke.

Brief Encounter (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Idle Gossip Opening scenes, Godby (Stanley Holloway) working bar girl Myrtle (Joyce Carey), Dolly (Everley Gregg) intruding on Laura (Celia Johnson) and Alec (Trevor Howard) who, director David Lean will reveal, are in a desperate private moment, from Brief Encounter, 1945.

Father Goose (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Pass Me By Opening with an an original song by Cy Coleman and Caroline Leigh (which became a hit for Peggy Lee), a rough Cary Grant is introduced as the title character, then Jack Good and Trevor Howard as British officers evacuating Papua, New Guinea, ca. 1942, Ralph Nelson directing Father Goose, 1964, co-starring Leslie Caron.

Gandhi (1982) -- (Original Trailer) Eight Academy Awards® including Best Picture went to Gandhi (1982), the true story of the man who freed India from colonial rule through non-violent protest.

Charge of the Light Brigade, The (1968) - (Original Trailer) An all-star British cast recreates the ride into the "valley of Death" in Tony Richardson's epic The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968).

Superman: The Movie - (Original Trailer) The man of steel (Christopher Reeve) fights to save the world and his true love in the all-star spectacular Superman: The Movie (1978).

Mutiny On The Bounty (1962) - (Original Trailer) Marlon Brando is mutineer Fletcher Christian in the Technicolor, Ultra-Panavision version of Mutiny On The Bounty (1962).

Ryan's Daughter - (Original Trailer) An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier in David Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970).

Battle Of Britain - (Original Trailer) Michael Caine and Sir Laurence Olivier head an all-star cast in the story of the Battle Of Britain (1969).

Lion, The - (Original Trailer) A man visits his daughter on an African wildlife reserve to make sure she's not growing up too wild in The Lion (1962).

Operation Crossbow - (Original Trailer) Allied agents go behind enemy lines to destroy a German missile base during World War II in Operation Crossbow (1965) starring George Peppard & Sophia Loren.

Liquidator, The - (Original Trailer) A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England's Prince Phillip in The Liquidator (1966).

Father Goose - (Original Trailer) A WWII drifter (Cary Grant) finds himself protecting schoolgirls and their beautiful teacher (Leslie Caron) in Father Goose (1964).

Around the World in 80 Days - (Wide Release Trailer) A Victorian gentleman (David Niven) bets that he can beat the world's record for circling the globe in Around the World in 80 Days (1956).

Now Playing: Ben's Pick -- (Movie Promo) March 2014 Ben Mankiewicz on his pick for the month, David Lean's often-overlooked romance Brief Encounter, 1945, from the March edition of TCM's Now Playing: The Show.

Companions

Helen Cherry

Wife

Actor. Born on November 24, 1915; married in 1944 until 1988; died on September 27, 2001.

Anouk Aimee

Companion

Actor. Had affair in 1950.

Bibliography

"Trevor Howard: A Personal Biography"

Terence Pettigrew, Peter Owen (2001)

Notes

"Trevor was so insensitive he didn't know what he was doing half the time." --director David Lean on Howard's work in "Brief Encounter" (1945).

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