Biography: life and films
Trevor Howard was an English actor whose birth name was Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith. He was born in Cliftonville, Kent, England on 29th September 1913 and died in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England on 7th January 1988, aged 74.His best films as an actor include David Lean's Brief Encounter (1945), Carol Reed's thriller The Third Man (1949), The Key (1958), Guy Hamilton's Battle of Britain (1969) and Luchino Visconti's Ludwig (1972).
Trevor Howard appeared in 82 films and supplied the music for 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Ronald Neame (3 films), Michael Anderson (3), Jack Gold (3), Jack Cardiff (3), Guy Hamilton (3), David Lean (3), Carol Reed (3), Terence Young (2), Richard Donner (2), Laslo Benedek (2) and Jürgen Goslar (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (54 films), War (17), Thriller (17), comedy (12), romance (11), history (8), crime-thriller (6), comedy-drama (6), comedy-thriller (4), Horror (4), Biography (4), comedy-romance (3) and Fantasy (3).
Our average rating for Trevor Howard over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor; m = musician
The Way to the Stars (1945) [a]
I See a Dark Stranger (1946) [a]
So Well Remembered (1947) [a]
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) [a]
The Passionate Friends (1949) [a]
Golden Salamander (1950) [a]
Odette (1950) [a]
The Clouded Yellow (1951) [a]
Gift Horse (1952) [a]
Outcast of the Islands (1952) [a]
The Heart of the Matter (1953) [a]
The Stranger's Hand (1954) [a]
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) [a]
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) [a]
Run for the Sun (1956) [a]
Interpol (1957) [a]
Manuela (1957) [a]
The Key (1958) [a]
The Roots of Heaven (1958) [a]
Moment of Danger (1960) [a]
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) [a]
The Lion (1962) [a]
Man in the Middle (1963) [a]
Morituri (1965) [a]
Operation Crossbow (1965) [a]
The Liquidator (1965) [a]
Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966) [a]
Pretty Polly (1967) [a]
The Long Duel (1967) [a]
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) [a]
Twinky (1969) [a]
Kidnapped (1971) [a]
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) [a]
The Night Visitor (1971) [a]
To Catch a Spy (1971) [a]
Ludwig (1972) [a]
The Offence (1972) [a]
A Doll's House (1973) [a]
Conflict (1973) [a]
Who? (1973) [a]
11 Harrowhouse (1974) [a]
Craze (1974) [a]
Persecution (1974) [a]
Conduct Unbecoming (1975) [a]
Hennessy (1975) [a]
Aces High (1976) [a]
Albino (1976) [a]
Eliza Fraser (1976) [a]
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976) [a]
The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) [a]
Slavers (1978) [a]
Stevie (1978) [a]
Superman (1978) [a]
Hurricane (1979) [a]
Meteor (1979) [a]
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980) [a]
The Sea Wolves (1980) [a]
The Shillingbury Blowers (1980) [a]
Windwalker (1980) [a]
Gandhi (1982) [a]
The Missionary (1982) [a]
Flashpoint Africa (1984) [a]
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984) [a]
Dust (1985) [a]
Foreign Body (1986) [a]
Time After Time (1986) [a]
Shaka Zulu (1987) [a]
The Dawning (1988) [a]
The Unholy (1988) [a]
White Mischief (1988) [a]
Get It On! (1998) [m]
The Art of Being Straight (2008) [m]
Danny Greene: The Rise and Fall of the Irishman (2009) [m]
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