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Profile of Trevor Howard
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Trevor Howard |
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29th September 1913 |
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Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK |
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Trevor Howard CBE (29 September 1913 - 7 January 1988) was a British actor.
Born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith in Cliftonville, 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. He married the actress Helen Cherry (1915-2001) on 8 September 1944.
His first major role was in Brief Encounter in 1945, and starred in The Third Man (1949), The Key (1958) and Sons and Lovers (1960), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
A great 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), Von Ryan's Express (1965), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Ryan's Daughter (1969), The Battle of Britain (1969), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Pope Joan (1972), Ludwig (1972), A Doll's House (1973), Superman (1978), White Mischief (1987), and The Dawning (1988).
He died from a combination of bronchitis, influenza and jaundice, in Arkley in the London Borough of Barnet in 1988 at the age of 74, survived by his wife, Helen.
He is commemorated by the Trevor Howard Bar at the Orange Tree Theatre in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
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