Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
100
Gender
Male
Birthday
September 29, 1913 ( 75 years old )
Place of Birth
Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK
Also Known As
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith
Trevor Howard
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".
Known For
The Third Man
1949-08-31Gandhi
1982-12-01Brief Encounter
1945-11-24Ludwig
1973-03-07Superman
1978-12-14Around the World in Eighty Days
1956-10-17Foreign Body
1986-09-26The Count of Monte-Cristo
1975-10-31Triple Cross
1966-12-09Father Goose
1964-12-10