Trevor Howard

Acting · Born 1913-09-29 in Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK

Biography

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…

Filmography

• The Third Man as Major Calloway
• Gandhi as Judge Broomfield
• Brief Encounter as Dr. Alec Harvey
• Superman as 1st Elder
• Mutiny on the Bounty as Capt. William Bligh
• Von Ryan's Express as Major Eric Fincham
• Ludwig as Richard Wagner
• Around the World in 80 Days as Denis Fallentin
• Foreign Body as Dr Stirry
• The Count of Monte-Cristo as Abbé Faria

TV

• Studio One as Vittorio
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Benjamin Disraeli
• Shaka Zulu as Lord Charles Somerset
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Dr. Derek Lester
• The 20th Century Fox Hour as Doug Elliott
• Shillingbury Tales as Dan 'Saltie' Wicklow
• George Washington as Lord Fairfax
• Peter the Great as Sir Isaac Newton
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
• Frontline as Narrator (voice)