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 ''

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'' (1987), '' Tequila Sunrise'' (1988), '' The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' (1997), '' The Time Traveler's Wife'' (2009), ''

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'' (2011), and ''

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'' (2020).

Early life and education

Howard was born in

Independence, Missouri Independence is the fifth-largest city in Missouri and the county seat of Jackson County, Missouri, Jackson County. Independence is a satellite city of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the largest suburb on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metro ...

. He has a sister, Joy Howard, and two younger brothers, Jim and Kip. He graduated from Truman High School and Columbia College.

Career

Howard established his career with roles in the films ''

'', '' Men Don't Leave'', ''

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'', and '' Natural Born Killers''. He was nominated for two CableACE Awards for his roles in the television films ''

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'' and ''

The Man Who Captured Eichmann ''The Man Who Captured Eichmann'' is a 1996 American historical drama television film directed by William Graham and written by Lionel Chetwynd, based on the 1990 book ''Eichmann in My Hands'' by Peter Malkin and Harry Stein. The film stars Rob ...

'', 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

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in the film '' Amistad''. Howard has had a recurring role in the CBS weekly drama series ''

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'' and has directed several episodes. He also starred in and directed the films ''

Big Bad Love ''Big Bad Love'' is a 2001 film directed by Arliss Howard, who co-wrote the script with his brother, James Howard, based on a collection of short stories of the same name by Larry Brown.Dawn Anna ''Dawn Anna'' is a 2005 American dramatic television film written by Robert Munic, Arliss Howard, and James Howard, and directed by Arliss Howard. The film, based upon real events surrounding the Columbine High School massacre, premiered on Lifet ...

'', both co-written with James Howard, his brother. His wife,

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, starred in both films. In 2010 he played Kale Ingram, a benignly duplicitous supervisor at an American intelligence agency, in the TV series ''

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'', which was canceled by AMC after 13 episodes. Howard appeared in the 2011 feature ''

''. Howard has extensive stage credits, including a role in the 2009 revival of

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's ''

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'' on Broadway. He has appeared in several productions at the

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(ART) in

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, including Paula Vogel's ''

How I Learned to Drive ''How I Learned to Drive'' is a play written by American playwright Paula Vogel. The play premiered on March 16, 1997, Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre. Vogel received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work. It was written and devel ...

'', with Winger, and

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a p ...

's '' In the Jungle of the Cities'', directed by Robert Woodruff. He was also seen as Mikhail Lvovich Astrov in

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's ''

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'', and Nikolai Ivanov in Chekhov's ''

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'', with Winger playing the role of Anna. Howard joined the cast for a CBS political drama pilot titled ''Ways & Means'' with Patrick Dempsey in June 2020 during the extent of paying cast pilots.

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.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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