Editing Trevor Howard (section)

==Final years==
Howard appeared in some prestigious movies towards the end of his career: ''[[The Deadly Game (1982 film)|The Deadly Game]]'' (1982), ''[[The Missionary]]'' (1982), ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' (1982), ''[[George Washington (miniseries)|George Washington]]'' (1984), ''[[Shaka Zulu (TV series)|Shaka Zulu]]'' (1986), ''[[Dust (1985 film)|Dust]]'' (1985), and ''[[Peter the Great (miniseries)|Peter the Great]]'' (1986).

At the time of filming ''[[White Mischief (film)|White Mischief]]'' (1988) on location in Kenya during 1987, Howard was seriously ill and suffering from [[alcoholism]]. The company wanted to sack him, but co-star [[Sarah Miles]] was determined that Howard's distinguished film career would not end that way. In an interview with Terence Pettigrew for his biography of Howard, Miles describes how she gave an ultimatum to the executives, threatening to quit the production if they got rid of him.{{Sfn|Pettigrew|2001|p=149}} His final film role was in ''[[The Dawning]]'' in 1988.

Throughout his film career Howard insisted that all his contracts include a clause excusing him from work whenever a [[cricket]] [[Test cricket|Test match]] was being played.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Passionate Lives of Trevor Howard|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19610217&id=n_0xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NuUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5774,4103969|work=[[Ottawa Citizen]]|date=17 February 1961}}</ref>

Howard recorded two [[Shakespeare]] performances, the first, recorded in the 1960s, was as [[Petruchio]] opposite [[Margaret Leighton]]'s Kate in [[Caedmon Records]]' complete recording of ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]''; the second was in the title role of ''[[King Lear]]'' for the [[BBC World Service]] in 1986.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}