Actor
Trevor Howard
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 i ...

Known For
Acting
2017 -- German Concentration Camps Factual Survey | Narrator (fragment version)
1988 -- The Dawning | Grandfather
1988 -- The Unholy | Father Silva
1987 -- White Mischief | Jack Soames
1987 -- Hand in Glove | Vicar
1986 -- Christmas Eve | Maitland
1986 -- Foreign Body | Dr Stirry
1986 -- Time After Time | Brigadier Croshawe
1985 -- Dust | Father
1985 -- Memory of the Camps | Narrator
1985 -- God Rot Tunbridge Wells! | Georg Friedrich Handel
1984 -- Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | The King
1984 -- The Bengal Lancers! | Uncle George
1982 -- Gandhi | Judge Broomfield
1982 -- The Missionary | Lord Henry Ames
1982 -- The Deadly Game | Gustave Kummer
1982 -- Inside the Third Reich | Prof. Heinrich Tessenow
1981 -- Light Years Away | Yoshka Poliakeff
1980 -- Staying On | Col. Tusker Smalley
1980 -- Superman II | Krypton Elder (archive footage) (uncredited)
1980 -- Windwalker | Windwalker
1980 -- Sir Henry at Rawlinson End | Sir Henry Rawlinson
1980 -- The Sea Wolves | Jack Cartwright
1980 -- The Shillingbury Blowers | Saltie
1980 -- Flashpoint Africa | Program Controller
1980 -- The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' | Self
1979 -- Meteor | Sir Michael Hughes
1979 -- Hurricane | Father Malone
1979 -- The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight | Riviere
1978 -- Superman | 1st Elder
1978 -- Stevie | The Man
1978 -- Slavers | Alec Mackenzie
1977 -- The Last Remake of Beau Geste | Sir Hector
1976 -- The Adventures of Eliza Fraser | Capt. Foster Fyans
1976 -- The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones | Squire Western
1976 -- Aces High | Lieutenant Colonel Silkin
1976 -- Death in the Sun | Johannes
1975 -- Hennessy | Comdr. Rice
1975 -- The Count of Monte-Cristo | Abbé Faria
1975 -- Conduct Unbecoming | Colonnello Benjamin Strang
1974 -- Persecution | Paul Bellamy
1974 -- 11 Harrowhouse | Clyde Massey
1974 -- Craze | Supt. Bellamy
1974 -- Who? | Colonel Azarin
1973 -- The Catholics | The Abbot
1973 -- A Doll's House | Dr. Rank
1973 -- Ludwig | Richard Wagner
1973 -- The Offence | Lieutenant Cartwright, Detective Superintendant
1972 -- Pope Joan | Pope Leo
1971 -- Mary, Queen of Scots | William Cecil
1971 -- Kidnapped | Lord Advocate
1971 -- Catch Me a Spy | Trevor Dawson
1971 -- The Night Visitor | Inspector
1970 -- Ryan's Daughter | Father Collins
1970 -- Twinky | Twinky's Grandfather
1969 -- Battle of Britain | Air Vice Marshal Keith Park
1968 -- The Charge of the Light Brigade | Lord Cardigan
1967 -- Pretty Polly | Robert Hook
1967 -- The Long Duel | Freddie Young
1966 -- Triple Cross | Freddie Young (Distinguished Civilian)
1966 -- The Poppy Is Also a Flower | Sam Lincoln
1965 -- The Liquidator | Mostyn
1965 -- Eagle in a Cage | Napoleon
1965 -- Morituri | Colonel Statter
1965 -- Von Ryan's Express | Major Eric Fincham
1965 -- Operation Crossbow | Professor Lindemann
1964 -- Father Goose | Commander Frank Houghton
1964 -- Man in the Middle | Major Kensington
1963 -- The Invincible Mr. Disraeli | Benjamin Disraeli
1962 -- Hedda Gabler | Ejlert Lövborg
1962 -- Mutiny on the Bounty | Capt. William Bligh
1962 -- The Lion | John Bullit
1960 -- Sons and Lovers | Walter Morel
1960 -- Moment of Danger | John Bain
1958 -- The Roots of Heaven | Morel
1958 -- The Key | Capt. Chris Ford
1957 -- Manuela | James Prothero
1957 -- Interpol | Frank McNally
1956 -- Around the World in Eighty Days | Denis Fallentin
1956 -- Run for the Sun | Browne
1955 -- The Cockleshell Heroes | Captain Thompson
1955 -- Lovers' Net | Inspector Lewis
1954 -- The Stranger's Hand | Major Roger Court
1953 -- The Heart of the Matter | Harry Scobie
1952 -- Gift Horse | Lt. Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser
1951 -- Outcast of the Islands | Peter Willems
1951 -- Lady Godiva Rides Again | Guest at Theater Accepting Program (uncredited)
1950 -- The Clouded Yellow | Maj. David Somers
1950 -- Odette | Captain Peter Churchill
1950 -- Golden Salamander | David Redfern
1949 -- The Third Man | Major Calloway
1949 -- The Passionate Friends | Prof. Steven Stratton
1947 -- So Well Remembered | Dr. Richard Whiteside
1947 -- They Made Me a Fugitive | George Clement 'Clem' Morgan
1946 -- Green for Danger | Dr. Barnes
1946 -- I See a Dark Stranger | Lt. David Bayne
1945 -- Brief Encounter | Dr. Alec Harvey
1945 -- The Way to the Stars | Squadron Leader Carter
1944 -- The Way Ahead | Officer on Ship (uncredited)
1944 -- The Aircraft Rocket, Part 4: Tactics, Section 2: Coastal | Briefing Officer
1941 -- Squaring the Circle |
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