Trevor Howard
AKA: Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith
Birthday: 1913-09-29
Died: 1988-01-07
Birthplace: Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK
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".
Filmography
Character: Judge Broomfield
Character: Dr. Alec Harvey
Character: Major Calloway
Character: Denis Fallentin
Character: Richard Wagner
Character: Freddie Young (Distinguished Civilian)
Character: Capt. William Bligh
Character: Commander Frank Houghton
Character: Major Eric Fincham
Character: Air Vice Marshal Keith Park
Character: Lieutenant Cartwright, Detective Superintendant
Character: Lt. David Bayne
Character: Sir Michael Hughes
Character: Professor Lindemann
Character: Colonel Statter
Character: Lieutenant Colonel Silkin
Character: Maj. David Somers
Character: Father Hugh Collins
Character: Captain Thompson
Character: George Clement 'Clem' Morgan
Character: Captain Peter Churchill
Character: Sir Henry Rawlinson
Character: Jack Cartwright
Character: Prof. Steven Stratton
Character: Lord Henry Ames
Character: Lt. Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser
Character: Colonel Azarin
Character: Twinky's Grandfather
Character: Colonnello Benjamin Strang
Character: Yoshka Poliakeff
Character: Capt. Chris Ford
Character: Ejlert Lövborg
Character: L'Inspecteur Lewis
Character: Major Kensington
Character: Alec Mackenzie
Character: Dr. Richard Whiteside
Character: Major Roger Court
Character: Georg Friedrich Handel
Character: Capt. Foster Fyans
Character: Prof. Heinrich Tessenow
Character: Guest at Theater Accepting Program (uncredited)
Character: James Prothero
Character: Squadron Leader Carter
Character: Gustave Kummer
Character: Squire Western
Character: Col. Tusker Smalley
Character: Narrator (fragment version)
Character: Program Controller
Character: Officer on Ship (uncredited)
Character: Benjamin Disraeli
Character: Krypton Elder (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Brigadier Croshawe