Edward Howell was born on July 15, 1902 in Bromley, Kent, England as Edward Welsford Rowsell Howell. He was an actor, known for For the Term of His Natural Life (1927), Hedda Gabler (1961) and The Ides of March (1961). He died on August 20, 1986 in Chatswood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.