Trevor Howard

Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988)Pettigrew Trevor Howard: A Personal Biography, London: Peter Owen, 2001, p. 26 and p. 245 was an English actor. He was born in Cliftonville, Kent. He was known for his roles in Brief Encounter (1945), followed by The Third Man (1949).

Howard was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor four times, winning for The Key (1958), and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Sons and Lovers (1960). His other notable movie 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.

He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

He declined a CBE in 1982. He won a BAFTA Award in 1959 and an Emmy Award in 1963.

Howard died on 7 January 1988 from liver failure complicated by cirrhosis in Arkley, Barnet, aged 74.Pettigrew Trevor Howard: A Personal Biography, London: Peter Owen, 2001, p. 245

References

Other websites

  Trevor Howard papers archived at Bristol University


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