Peter Graves (actor)

The left-handed Graves is married with Joan Endress (since 1950) and has 3 daughters. His brother is the American actor James Arness (Gunsmoke). His younger brother, Arthur, was also an actor, primarily in British comedies. He is best known as a lead in TV's Mission: Impossible and for his portrayal of Captain Clarence Oveur in Airplane!. Howard was married to Ruth Martin in 1916, they had two children, a son, Ronald, and a daughter, Leslie Ruth. Peter Graves (born March 18, 1926 as Peter Aurness) is an American actor who made more than 70 screen and TV films and series. 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. 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.

Howard and Bogart became lifelong friends, the Bogarts named their daughter Leslie Howard after him. They had appeared in the play together on Broadway. It was Howard who insisted that Humphrey Bogart appear in the film as gangster, Duke Manatee. In 1936, Howard appeared in the film Petrified Forest.

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).
Davis and Howard in Maugham's
Of Human Bondage (1934). 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. Leslie Howard (April 3, 1893 - June 1, 1943) was a British film actor of Hungarian descent.