Trevor Howard is known for his roles in Golden Salamander, The Clouded Yellow, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Battle of Britain, Lola, Ryan's Daughter, Superman, Windwalker, and Gandhi.
34 Facts About Trevor Howard
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Trevor Howard's father was an insurance underwriter for Lloyd's of London, serving as representative in Colombo, Sri Lanka and elsewhere; Trevor spent the first eight years of his life travelling around the world.
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Trevor Howard was educated at Clifton College and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Trevor Howard did little to stop the stories that he had a courageous wartime service in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals, which earned him much respect among fellow actors and fans.
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Trevor Howard was in a big stage hit, A Soldier for Christmas, and a production of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie.
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Trevor Howard received his first credit for The Way to the Stars, playing a pilot.
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Trevor Howard followed it with I See a Dark Stranger with Deborah Kerr, and Green for Danger, starring Alastair Sim.
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Trevor Howard was reunited with Lean for The Passionate Friends, but the film was not a success.
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However, The Third Man, which Trevor Howard starred in alongside Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten for Carol Reed from a story by Graham Greene, was a huge international success, and became the film of which Trevor Howard was most proud.
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On one occasion Trevor Howard was in too much of a hurry to change out of his uniform as a British Army major.
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Trevor Howard was the lead in Golden Salamander and played Peter Churchill in Odette with Anna Neagle, a big hit in Britain.
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Trevor Howard loaned Howard to Betty Box and Ralph Thomas to make The Clouded Yellow, a popular thriller with Jean Simmons.
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Trevor Howard was reunited with Carol Reed for Outcast of the Islands and he made a war film, Gift Horse.
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Trevor Howard was in another adaptation of a Graham Greene story, The Heart of the Matter.
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Trevor Howard was in a French movie, The Lovers of Lisbon, then supported Jose Ferrer in a war film from Warwick Pictures, The Cockleshell Heroes, which was popular in Britain.
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Trevor Howard made a cameo in Around the World in 80 Days and again played a villain to an American star, Victor Mature, in Warwick's Interpol.
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Trevor Howard starred in Manuela then supported William Holden in Carol Reed's The Key, for which he received the Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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When William Holden dropped out of the lead of The Roots of Heaven, Trevor Howard stepped in - the star part in a Hollywood film.
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Trevor Howard was nominated for a BAFTA on four other occasions.
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Trevor Howard was Captain Bligh to Marlon Brando's Fletcher Christian in MGM's remake of Mutiny on the Bounty.
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Trevor Howard was in a TV movie production of Hedda Gabler and played the title prime minister in "The Invincible Mr Disraeli", an episode of the Hallmark Hall of Fame for which he won an Emmy Award for his role then supported Robert Mitchum in Man in the Middle and Cary Grant in Father Goose.
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Trevor Howard had a change of pace supporting Hayley Mills in Pretty Polly.
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Trevor Howard went back to military roles: The Charge of the Light Brigade, as Lord Cardigan, and Battle of Britain, as Air Vice Marshal Keith Park.
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Trevor Howard had support parts in Lola and Ryan's Daughter, the latter for David Lean.
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Trevor Howard appeared in some horror films - Craze, Persecution - and the more prestigious 11 Harrowhouse, in which his wife Helen Cherry starred with him.
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Trevor Howard played military men in Hennessy and Conduct Unbecoming.
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Trevor Howard could be found in Albino, shot in Rhodesia; The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones ; Aces High ; Eliza Fraser, shot in Australia; The Last Remake of Beau Geste ; and Stevie.
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Trevor Howard was one of many names in Superman, Hurricane, Meteor and The Sea Wolves.
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Trevor Howard appeared in a TV series Shillingbury Tales.
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Trevor Howard appeared in some prestigious movies towards the end of his career: The Deadly Game, The Missionary, Gandhi, George Washington, Shaka Zulu, Dust, and Peter the Great.
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At the time of filming White Mischief on location in Kenya during 1987, Trevor Howard was seriously ill and suffering from alcoholism.
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Trevor Howard wanted to sack him, but co-star Sarah Miles was determined that Howard's distinguished film career would not end that way.
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Trevor Howard recorded two Shakespeare performances, the first, recorded in the 1960s, was as Petruchio opposite Margaret Leighton's Kate in Caedmon Records' complete recording of The Taming of the Shrew; the second was in the title role of King Lear for the BBC World Service in 1986.
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Trevor Howard died, aged 74, at his home in Arkley, Barnet on 7 January 1988.