Leslie Howard

His younger brother, Arthur, was also an actor, primarily in British comedies. He has been a member of the upper house of Parliament since 2000. Howard was married to Ruth Martin in 1916, they had two children, a son, Ronald, and a daughter, Leslie Ruth. He has been active in efforts to bring the people of India and Pakistan closer. In 1943, he visited Lisbon (some say on a secret mission), and, on the return flight, his plane was shot down by enemy forces, possibly because the Germans believed the prime minister, Winston Churchill, to be on board. He married her when he was 44 and she was half his age, and despite apprehensions from the media, the marriage has been one of the longest lasting marriages in Bollywood. This image helped win him the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind (1939), but he was uncomfortable with Hollywood and returned to Britain to help with the war effort. He is married to actress Saira Banu.

Howard and Bogart became lifelong friends, the Bogarts named their daughter Leslie Howard after him. His acting has influenced his successors and many actors look up to him and try to emulate his style. They had appeared in the play together on Broadway. His style of acting is characterised by rich dialogues in Urdu and a poetic manner of delivery. It was Howard who insisted that Humphrey Bogart appear in the film as gangster, Duke Manatee. Dilip Kumar is considered one of the best actors produced by the Hindi film industry. In 1936, Howard appeared in the film Petrified Forest. However his award ran into controversy when war-like conditions strained relations between India and Pakistan, and he was asked to return the award by Hindu extremists like Balasaheb Thackeray.

Howard proceeded to play stiff-upper-lipped Englishmen in films such as Berkeley Square (1933, for which he was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), Pygmalion (1938) (in which he played Professor Higgins, and earned another Oscar nomination), and Pimpernel Smith (1941). He is the second Indian to receive the award, after former Indian prime minister Morarji Desai.
Davis and Howard in Maugham's
Of Human Bondage (1934). In 1998 he was awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan, the highest civilian award conferred by the Pakistan government. Born Leslie Howard Stainer in Forest Hill, London, Howard's classic good looks won him his first screen role in a 1914 silent film, following which he served in World War I, his military career being cut short due to case of severe shell shock. He was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1995. Leslie Howard (April 3, 1893 - June 1, 1943) was a British film actor of Hungarian descent. The role eventually went to Omar Sharif.

However, Kumar was unsure of doing films outside India in which he had no say, and declined the part. Hollywood director David Lean offered Dilip Kumar a role in his 1962 blockbuster, Lawrence of Arabia. He tried his hand as Producer for the film Ganga Jamuna and was rewarded as the film turned out to be successful. The film Mughal-e-Azam (1960) in which he played crown-prince Jehangir, the son of Akbar, was a record-breaking film in the history of the Indian film industry.

In the 50s, his role in Bimal Roy's Devdas as a tragic drunken hero earned him the title of the "Tragedy King". In 1949, he co-starred with Raj Kapoor in the film Andaz, which went to become a major success and made him a superstar. Khan adopted the screen name of Dilip Kumar for his first film Jwar Bhatta released in 1944. His father relocated to Bombay (now Mumbai) and Yusuf Khan got introduced to the Bombay film industry in the 1940s.

Dilip Kumar was born Yusuf Khan in Peshawar (now Pakistan) in a Pathan family of twelve children. He is the recipient of India's highest award for cinematic excellence, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and also the Nishan-e-Pakistan, Pakistan's highest civilian award. Dilip Kumar (born December 1, 1922) is an Indian film actor and Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha).