Sydney Howard

{{Short description|English actor and comedian (1884–1946)}}

{{for|the American dramatist and screenwriter|Sidney Howard}}

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{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Sydney Howard

| image = Comedian_Sydney_Howard.jpeg

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| caption = Howard in The Mayor's Nest (1932)

| birth_date = 7 August 1885

| birth_place = Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom

| death_date = {{death date and age|1946|6|22|df=y|1885|8|7}}

| death_place = London, United Kingdom

| other_names =

| occupation = Actor, comedian

| years_active = 1929–1945 (film)

}}

Sydney Howard (7 August 1884 – 12 June 1946) was an English stage comedian and film actor born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire.http://www.britishpictures.com/godfrey/card04.htm Stars of British Films A Series of 50 – No. 4 Sydney Howard

Already a major stage star, Howard made his feature film début in Jack Raymond's Splinters (1929), and went on appearing in unique roles in films such as French Leave, Up for the Cup and The Mayor's Nest.{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba16834bc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716080917/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba16834bc|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-16|title=Sydney Howard|publisher=British Film Institute}} Despite his popularity in the 1920s and 1930s films he appeared in, Howard is almost totally forgotten today. His most revived film is When We Are Married, in which he played a drunken photographer.

In 1937 British exhibitors voted him the 10th most popular British star at the box office.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25390774 |title=PICTURES and PERSONALITIES. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tasmania |date=10 April 1937 |accessdate=27 April 2012 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}