Which country was actor Leslie Howard travelling from when his plane was shot down?
Ronald Howard (British actor) gallery. In the 1980s he wrote "In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard", a biography covering the career and mysterious death of his father, whose plane was shot down over the Bay of Biscay on 1 June 1943. His conclusion (which remains in dispute) was that the Germans' goal in shooting down the plane was to kill his father, who had been travelling through Spain and Portugal, ostensibly lecturing on film, but also meeting with local propagandists and shoring up support for the Allied cause. The Germans suspected surreptitious activities since German agents were active throughout Spain
Leslie Howard First of the Few" (1942). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for "Berkeley Square" and "Pygmalion". Howard's Second World War activities included acting and filmmaking. He was active in anti-German propaganda and rumoured to have been involved with British or Allied Intelligence, sparking conspiracy theories regarding his death in 1943 when the Luftwaffe shot down BOAC Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay (in Cedeira, A Coruña) on which he was a passenger. Howard was born Leslie Howard Steiner to a British mother, Lilian ("née" Blumberg), and a Hungarian-Jewish father, Ferdinand Steiner, in Upper Norwood, London.