Trevor Howard

Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard, 1973
Born
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith

(1913-09-29)29 September 1913[1]
Cliftonville, Kent, England
Died7 January 1988(1988-01-07) (aged 74)
Arkley, London, England
Resting placeSt Peter's Church, Arkley
OccupationActor
Years active1934–1988
Spouse
(m. 1944)

Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988)[2] was an English stage and screen actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved leading man star status in the film Brief Encounter (1945), followed by The Third Man (1949), portraying what BFI Screenonline called “a new kind of male lead in British films: steady, middle-class, reassuring…. but also capable of suggesting neurosis under the tweedy demeanour.”[3]

He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor four times, winning for The Key (1958), and an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Sons and Lovers (1960). His other notable film performances include Golden Salamander (1950), The Clouded Yellow (1951), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), Lola (1969), Ryan's Daughter (1970), Superman (1978), Gandhi (1982), and White Mischief (1987). He was also an Emmy Award recipient, and a three-time Golden Globe nominee.

  1. ^ Pettigrew 2001, p. 26.
  2. ^ Pettigrew 2001, p. 26 and 245.
  3. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Howard, Trevor (1913-1988) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2024.