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{{Short description|American actor, screenwriter, and film director (born 1954)}}
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'''Leslie Richard''' "'''Arliss'''" '''Howard''' (born October 18, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for his roles in the films '']'' (1987), '']'' (1988), '']'' (1997), '']'' (2009), '']'' (2011), and '']'' (2020).
'''Arliss Howard''' (born '''Leslie Richard Howard'''; October 18, 1954) is an ] ], ] and ]. He was born in ] and established his career with stand-out roles in '']'' and '']''. In ''Till Death Us Do Part'' (1992), Howard portrayed ] and ] ], who led the prosecution in the ]. He has had a recurring role in the ] weekly drama series '']'' and has directed several episodes. Howard has extensive stage credits, including a role in the 2009 revival of August Wilson's '']'' on Broadway. He also starred in and directed the films '']'' and '']'', both co-written with James Howard, his brother. His wife, ], stars in both films. He has two sons, one from a previous marriage and one with Winger.

==Early life and education==

Howard is a native of ]. He received an English literature degree from ]. Before committing to acting, Howard worked in the Wyoming oil industry, on a New Mexico ranch, and lived in Hawaii.<ref name="Trussell-Star-2009">{{cite news |title=Arliss Howard follows the road to Broadway |last1=Trussell |url=https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1519360&crid=f5a76c67-87cd-4350-bfae-1210bda2e588&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fnews%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A7VS6-MB70-Y9F2-50NF-00000-00&pdcontentcomponentid=145214&pdteaserkey=sr1&pditab=allpods&ecomp=gwmyk&earg=sr1&prid=e79f2c30-7dcd-49b2-845d-d6a009c1a39e |first1=Robert |work=The Kansas City Star |date=May 24, 2009 |accessdate=March 24, 2024}}</ref>

==Career==
Howard established his career with roles in the films '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']''. He was nominated for two ]s for his roles in the television films '']'' and '']'', winning for the former.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

In 1997, he portrayed billionaire John Hammond's evil nephew ] in the film '']'', and U.S. Vice President ] in the film '']''; both films were directed by ].

Howard has had a recurring role in the ] weekly drama series '']'' and has directed several episodes. He also starred in and directed the films '']'' and '']'', both co-written with ], his brother. His wife, ], starred in both films. In 2010 he played Kale Ingram, a benignly duplicitous supervisor at an American intelligence agency, in the TV series '']'', which was canceled by ] after 13 episodes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/11/11/amc-cancels-rubicon/71726 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114055323/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/11/11/amc-cancels-rubicon/71726 |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 14, 2010 |title=Rubicon Cancelled By AMC |website=TV by the Numbers |access-date=March 14, 2012}}</ref> Howard appeared in the 2011 feature '']''.<ref>{{IMDb name| id=0397124}}</ref>

Howard has extensive stage credits, including a role in the 2009 revival of ]'s '']'' on Broadway. He has appeared in several productions at the ] (ART) in ], including ]'s '']'', with Winger, and ]'s '']'', directed by ].<ref>{{cite web|last=Koch |first=John |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8491019.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025201624/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8491019.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |title=Winger, Howard to appear at ART |work=The Boston Globe |date=August 5, 1998 |access-date=March 14, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amrep.org/people/arliss.html |title=Profile |website=AmRep |date=July 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011143008/http://www.amrep.org/people/arliss.html |archive-date=October 11, 2007 }}</ref> He was also seen as Mikhail Lvovich Astrov in ]'s '']'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://americanrepertorytheater.org/person/arliss-howard |website=American Repertory Theater |title=Arliss Howard}}</ref> and Nikolai Ivanov in Chekhov's '']'', with Winger playing the role of Anna.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/ivanov |website=American Repertory Theater |title=Ivanov}}</ref>

Howard joined the cast of a CBS political drama pilot titled ''Ways & Means'' with ] in June 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/06/pilot-season-2020-cbs-tv-studios-pay-casts-extend-options-on-pilots-suspended-covid-19-1202954656/|title=Pilot Season 2020: CBS TV Studios Is Latest To Pay Casts & Extend Options On Pilots Suspended Due To COVID-19|date=June 9, 2020|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|work=]|access-date=June 9, 2020}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Howard is married to actress ]. He has two sons, Sam Howard (born 1987) from his previous marriage to talent agent Karen Sellars, and Gideon "Babe" Howard (born 1997) with Winger.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}


==Filmography== ==Filmography==
=== Film ===
* '']'' (1983) (TV)
{| class="wikitable" | title= Notable Roles
* '']'' (1987)
|-
* '']'' (])
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
* ''I Know My Name Is Steven'' (1989) (TV) .... Kenneth Parnell (uncredited)
|-
* '']'' (1990)
| 1983|| ''The Prodigal'' || Scott Stuart ||
* ''Till Death Us Do Part'' (1992) (TV)
|-
* '']'' (1992)
| 1986|| '']'' || Eddie ||
* ''Ruby'' (1992)
|-
* ''Those Secrets'' (1992) (TV)
| 1987|| '']''|| Sergeant 'Cowboy' Evans ||
* '']'' (1993)
|-
* ''The Sandlot'' (1993) (uncredited)
| rowspan=2|1988|| '']''|| Gregg Lindroff ||
* '']'' (1994) (uncredited)
|-
* ''] (1995)
|| '']'' || Nick Dunbar|| Lead role
* ''The Infiltrator'' (1995) (TV) .... Eaton
|-
* ''Wet'' (1995)
| 1990|| '']'' || Charles Simon ||
* ''Johns'' (1996)
|-
* ''The Man Who Captured Eichmann'' (1996) (TV)
| 1991|| '']''|| Dixie's Husband Sergeant Michael Leonard ||
* ''Beyond the Call'' (1996) (TV)
|-
* ''Tales of Erotica'' (1996) (segment "Wet")
* '']'' (1997) | rowspan=2|1992|| '']'' || Joe ||
|-
* '']'' (1997)
* '']'' (1997) (TV) || '']'' || Maxwell ||
|-
* ''The Lesser Evil'' (1998)
| rowspan=2|1993|| '']'' || Wilder Foudroyant ||
* ''A Map of the World'' (1999)
|-
* ''You Know My Name'' (1999) (TV)
|| '']'' || Older Scotty Smalls || rowspan=2|Uncredited
* ''Big Bad Love'' (2001)
|-
* ''The Song of the Lark'' (2001) (TV)
| 1994|| '']'' || Owen Traft, Mickey & Mallory's Guardian Angel / The Demon
* ''Word of Honor'' (2003) (TV)
|-
* ''Dandelion'' (2004)
| rowspan=2|1995 || '']'' || Virgil ||
* ''Birth'' (2004)
|-
* ''Dawn Anna'' (2005) (TV)
|| ''Wet'' || Bruce Lomann || Short film
* ''Weapons'' (2006)
|-
* '']'' (2007)
| rowspan=2|1996 || '']'' || John Cardoza ||
* '']'' (2009)
|-
|| '']'' || Bruce Lomann || Re-release of "Wet" as a segment
|-
| rowspan=2|1997 || '']'' || ]||
|-
|| '']'' || Peter Ludlow ||
|-
| 1998 || '']'' || Ivan Williams ||
|-
| 1999 || '']'' || Paul Reverdy ||
|-
| 2001 || '']'' || Barlow || Also director and writer
|-
| rowspan=2|2004 || '']'' || Luke Mullich ||
|-
|| '']''|| Bob ||
|-
| 2006 || '']'' || Mikey's Uncle ||
|-
| 2007 || '']'' || Dr. Jonathan Neyer ||
|-
| 2009 || '']'' || Richard DeTamble ||
|-
| 2011 || '']'' || ] ||
|-
| 2015 || '']'' || Dr. ]||
|-
| 2017 || '']'' || Diana's Father ||
|-
| rowspan=2|2020 || '']'' || Dr. Mangold||
|-
|| '']'' || ] ||
|-
| 2021 || '']'' || || Segment: "Still Life"; also director and writer
|-
| 2023 || '']'' || Henderson "Clay" Claybourne, the Client||
|-
| 2024 || '']'' || || Post-production
|}

=== Television ===
{| class="wikitable" | title= Notable Roles
|-
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
|-
| 1979 || '']'' || Policeman||Episode: "The Disciple"
|-
| rowspan=3|1983 || '']'' || Danny Madden || Episode: "September of '53/Together Again"
|-
|| '']'' || John Lyons|| rowspan=2|TV movie
|-
|| '']'' || Tom Cooper
|-
| 1984 || '']'' || Phil Platt||Episode: "Bangladesh Slowly"
|-
| 1985 || '']'' || Stranger||Episode: "Healer/Children's Zoo/Kentucky Rye"
|-
| 1987 || '']'' || Felix Lyttle || TV movie
|-
| 1989 || '']'' || ] || Miniseries (uncredited)
|-
| 1990 || '']''|| Raymond Eames || rowspan=10|TV movie
|-
| rowspan=2|1992 || ''Till Death Us Do Part'' || ]
|-
|| ''Those Secrets'' || Simon
|-
| 1995 || '']'' || Ricky Eaton
|-
| rowspan=2|1996 || '']'' || ]
|-
|| ''Beyond the Call''|| Keith O'Brien
|-
| 1997 || ''Old Man'' || J.J. Taylor
|-
| 1999 || '']'' || Wiley
|-
| 2001 || ''The Song of the Lark'' || Dr. Howard Archie
|-
| 2003 || '']'' || J.D. Runnells
|-
| 2005 || '']'' || Physical Therapist || TV movie; also director
|-
| 2005–2007 || '']'' || Captain Kenneth Push || 4 episodes
|-
| 2010 || '']'' || Kale Ingram || 13 episodes
|-
| 2013 || '']'' || Truman Burrell || Season 6, main cast
|-
| 2017 ||'']'' || ] || Episode: "Part IV"
|-
| 2020 || '']'' || Earl Embry || Main cast
|-
| 2021 || '']'' || Larry||2 episodes
|}

==References==
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* {{cite news |first=Bob |last=Strauss |date=March 3, 2002 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/TERMS+OF+ENDURANCE+A+STRONG+MARRIAGE+HELPED+DEBRA+WINGER+AND+ARLISS...-a083463566 |title= Terms of Endurance | work=] | publisher=via the ] |access-date=July 25, 2016}}

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American actor, screenwriter, and film director (born 1954)
Arliss Howard
BornLeslie Richard Howard
(1954-10-18) October 18, 1954 (age 70)
Independence, Missouri, U.S.
Other namesLess R. Howard
Education
Occupations
Years active1983–present
Spouses
  • Karen Mary Sellars (divorced)
Debra Winger ​(m. 1996)​
Children2
RelativesJames Howard (brother)

Leslie Richard "Arliss" Howard (born October 18, 1954) is an American actor, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for his roles in the films Full Metal Jacket (1987), Tequila Sunrise (1988), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), Moneyball (2011), and Mank (2020).

Early life and education

Howard is a native of Independence, Missouri. He received an English literature degree from Columbia College. Before committing to acting, Howard worked in the Wyoming oil industry, on a New Mexico ranch, and lived in Hawaii.

Career

Howard established his career with roles in the films Full Metal Jacket, Men Don't Leave, Ruby, and Natural Born Killers. He was nominated for two CableACE Awards for his roles in the television films Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture and The Man Who Captured Eichmann, winning for the former.

In 1997, he portrayed billionaire John Hammond's evil nephew Peter Ludlow in the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun in the film Amistad; both films were directed by Steven Spielberg.

Howard has had a recurring role in the CBS weekly drama series Medium and has directed several episodes. He also starred in and directed the films Big Bad Love and Dawn Anna, both co-written with James Howard, his brother. His wife, Debra Winger, starred in both films. In 2010 he played Kale Ingram, a benignly duplicitous supervisor at an American intelligence agency, in the TV series Rubicon, which was canceled by AMC after 13 episodes. Howard appeared in the 2011 feature Moneyball.

Howard has extensive stage credits, including a role in the 2009 revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone on Broadway. He has appeared in several productions at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, including Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, with Winger, and Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of the Cities, directed by Robert Woodruff. He was also seen as Mikhail Lvovich Astrov in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and Nikolai Ivanov in Chekhov's Ivanov, with Winger playing the role of Anna.

Howard joined the cast of a CBS political drama pilot titled Ways & Means with Patrick Dempsey in June 2020.

Personal life

Howard is married to actress Debra Winger. He has two sons, Sam Howard (born 1987) from his previous marriage to talent agent Karen Sellars, and Gideon "Babe" Howard (born 1997) with Winger.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1983 The Prodigal Scott Stuart
1986 The Lightship Eddie
1987 Full Metal Jacket Sergeant 'Cowboy' Evans
1988 Tequila Sunrise Gregg Lindroff
Plain Clothes Nick Dunbar Lead role
1990 Men Don't Leave Charles Simon
1991 For the Boys Dixie's Husband Sergeant Michael Leonard
1992 CrissCross Joe
Ruby Maxwell
1993 Wilder Napalm Wilder Foudroyant
The Sandlot Older Scotty Smalls Uncredited
1994 Natural Born Killers Owen Traft, Mickey & Mallory's Guardian Angel / The Demon
1995 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Virgil
Wet Bruce Lomann Short film
1996 Johns John Cardoza
Tales of Erotica Bruce Lomann Re-release of "Wet" as a segment
1997 Amistad John C. Calhoun
The Lost World: Jurassic Park Peter Ludlow
1998 The Lesser Evil Ivan Williams
1999 A Map of the World Paul Reverdy
2001 Big Bad Love Barlow Also director and writer
2004 Dandelion Luke Mullich
Birth Bob
2006 Weapons Mikey's Uncle
2007 Awake Dr. Jonathan Neyer
2009 The Time Traveler's Wife Richard DeTamble
2011 Moneyball John Henry
2015 Concussion Dr. Joseph Maroon
2017 The Boy Downstairs Diana's Father
2020 Lapsis Dr. Mangold
Mank Louis B. Mayer
2021 With/In: Volume 2 Segment: "Still Life"; also director and writer
2023 The Killer Henderson "Clay" Claybourne, the Client
2024 The Thicket Post-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1979 The Incredible Hulk Policeman Episode: "The Disciple"
1983 AfterMASH Danny Madden Episode: "September of '53/Together Again"
A Killer in the Family John Lyons TV movie
The Day After Tom Cooper
1984 Hill Street Blues Phil Platt Episode: "Bangladesh Slowly"
1985 The Twilight Zone Stranger Episode: "Healer/Children's Zoo/Kentucky Rye"
1987 Hands of a Stranger Felix Lyttle TV movie
1989 I Know My First Name Is Steven Kenneth Parnell Miniseries (uncredited)
1990 Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture Raymond Eames TV movie
1992 Till Death Us Do Part Vincent Bugliosi
Those Secrets Simon
1995 The Infiltrator Ricky Eaton
1996 The Man Who Captured Eichmann Peter Malkin
Beyond the Call Keith O'Brien
1997 Old Man J.J. Taylor
1999 You Know My Name Wiley
2001 The Song of the Lark Dr. Howard Archie
2003 Word of Honor J.D. Runnells
2005 Dawn Anna Physical Therapist TV movie; also director
2005–2007 Medium Captain Kenneth Push 4 episodes
2010 Rubicon Kale Ingram 13 episodes
2013 True Blood Truman Burrell Season 6, main cast
2017 When We Rise Theodore Olson Episode: "Part IV"
2020 Manhunt: Deadly Games Earl Embry Main cast
2021 Mr. Corman Larry 2 episodes

References

  1. Trussell, Robert (May 24, 2009). "Arliss Howard follows the road to Broadway". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
  2. "Rubicon Cancelled By AMC". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on November 14, 2010. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  3. Arliss Howard at IMDb
  4. Koch, John (August 5, 1998). "Winger, Howard to appear at ART". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2012.
  5. "Profile". AmRep. July 2002. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007.
  6. "Arliss Howard". American Repertory Theater.
  7. "Ivanov". American Repertory Theater.
  8. Andreeva, Nellie (June 9, 2020). "Pilot Season 2020: CBS TV Studios Is Latest To Pay Casts & Extend Options On Pilots Suspended Due To COVID-19". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved June 9, 2020.

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