Trevor (Wallace) Howard - Early life, Film career

Actor, born in Cliftonville, Kent, SE England, UK. He trained in London and had a successful stage career until joining the army at the beginning of World War 2. Invalided out in 1944, he turned to films, and sprang to stardom with Brief Encounter (1945), followed by The Third Man (1949) and Outcast of the Islands (1951). His versatile and often eccentric characterizations were regularly in demand for both film and television, with later appearances in Gandhi and The Missionary (both 1982), Dust (1985), and White Mischief (1987).

Trevor Howard
Born	29 September 1913 Cliftonville, Kent, England
Died	7 January 1988 Bushey, Hertfordshire, England

Trevor Howard, CBE (29 September 1913–7 January 1988), born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, was an English movie and television actor.

Early life

Howard was born in Cliftonville, Kent, he was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and acted on the London stage for several years before World War II.

Film career

His first major role was in Brief Encounter in 1945, and starred in The Third Man (1949), The Key (1958) and Sons and Lovers (1960), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

A great character actor, many times appearing in war and period pieces, Howard later appeared in such films as Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Father Goose (1964), Morituri (1965), Von Ryan's Express (1965), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Ryan's Daughter (1969), Battle of Britain (1969), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Pope Joan (1972), Ludwig (1972), A Doll's House (1973), Superman (1978), Gandhi (1982), White Mischief (1987), and The Dawning (1988).