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3Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988), known professionally as Trevor Howard, was an English actor. If you needed a StiffUpperLip authority figure or, alternately, a fearsome LargeHam, Howard was your go-to actor.
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5Howard studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in the 1930s and began a stage career before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII intervened. He served in the Royal Signal Corps, though the nature of his service remains controversial. In his lifetime, Howard was regarded as a war hero; it was posthumously revealed that he was discharged for mental instability.
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7Howard began acting in films with 1944's ''The Way Ahead'' and 1945's ''The Way to the Stars''. He came to the attention of Creator/DavidLean, who cast him as Alec Harvey in ''Film/BriefEncounter'' opposite Celia Johnson. Howard followed this with another Lean collaboration, ''Film/ThePassionateFriends'', playing a similar role. Despite becoming a star as a romantic lead, Howard was soon typecast as military officers.
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9Arguably Howard's most famous role is the unflappable Major Calloway in Carol Reed's ''Film/TheThirdMan'', which provided the template for his career. In movies like ''The Cockleshell Heroes'', ''The Key'' and ''The Roots Of Heaven'' he exemplified the StiffUpperLip British officer. Howard played against-type as the eccentric AntiHero of Reed's ''Outcast of the Islands'' and cameoed in ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956''. In 1960, he played against type again as a roughneck coal miner and earned a Best Actor nomination for Jack Cardiff's ''Film/SonsAndLovers''.
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11His notable performances in the '60s and '70s include Captain Bligh in ''Film/{{Mutiny on the Bounty|1962}}'', Colonel Fincham in ''Film/VonRyansExpress'', Lord Cardigan in ''Film/TheChargeOfTheLightBrigade'' and Father Collins in Lean's ''Film/RyansDaughter''.
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13Increasingly relegated to character parts, Howard looked to independent movies for leading roles. He played a Cheyenne Indian in ''Windwalker'' and the title character, a depraved aristocrat, in the surreal comedy ''Sir Henry at Rawlinson End''. He also did a lot of television work; among other roles, he played George Frideric Handel in John Osborne's 1985 teleplay, ''God Rot Tunbridge Wells!'' His final role came in the 1988 horror movie ''The Unholy''.
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15Howard's appeal and screen image were well-summarized by Creator/RichardAttenborough, director of ''Film/{{Gandhi}}'', who said that he needed an actor to play Judge Broomfield who could convey British justice and fair play with a minimum of screen time, and naturally turned to Howard. That said, he was equally adept at [[EvilIsHammy scenery-chewing villains]], as his roles as Captain Bligh and Lord Cardigan demonstrate.
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17To the public, Howard was known off-screen for both his [[TheAlcoholic fondness for alcohol]] and obsession with cricket. His contracts included a clause to excuse him from filming whenever a test match was in play. To directors and fellow actors, however, Howard was almost universally regarded as one of British cinema's most friendly and hard-working stars. He was married to actress Helen Cherry.
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19!!Trevor Howard works on this wiki:
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21* ''Film/BriefEncounter''
22* ''Film/ISeeADarkStranger''
23* ''Film/GreenForDanger''
24* ''Film/TheyMadeMeAFugitive''
25* ''Film/ThePassionateFriends''
26* ''Film/TheThirdMan''
27* ''Film/RunForTheSun''
28* ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956''
29* ''Film/SonsAndLovers''
30* ''Film/{{Mutiny on the Bounty|1962}}''
31* ''Film/FatherGoose''
32* ''Film/VonRyansExpress''
33* ''Film/{{Morituri}}''
34* ''Film/TheChargeOfTheLightBrigade''
35* ''Film/BattleOfBritain''
36* ''Film/RyansDaughter''
37* ''Film/MaryQueenOfScots1971''
38* ''Film/{{Ludwig}}''
39* ''Theatre/ADollsHouse'' (1973)
40* ''Film/ConductUnbecoming''
41* ''Film/TheLastRemakeOfBeauGeste''
42* ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''
43* ''Film/{{Meteor}}''
44* ''Film/TheSeaWolves''
45* ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''
46* ''Film/{{Gandhi}}''
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48!!Tropes associated with the actor:
49* IAmNotSpock: He eventually came to view ''Film/BriefEncounter'''s success as a hindrance to his career, blinding people to his other achievements. When one too many interviewers asked about the film, he slammed down the phone after yelling, "Anyone would think I made nothing else."

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