Leslie Phillips
Leslie Phillips, CBE ( born April 20, 1924 in Tottenham, London ) is a British actor.
Life and career
Leslie Phillips began as a child actor at the Italia Conti School and also worked as a child actor in several stage productions with. In 1938 he was in the comedy Lassie from Lancashire made his feature film debut. After the outbreak of the Second World War, Phillips made four years military service in an infantry division. After his return he resumed his acting career again. First, his appearances were limited, however, in film and theater to supporting roles, including 1957 next to Margaret Rutherford in the comedies The smallest show in the world and a bird in the hand and in the same year with Gene Kelly in the musical The Girls. Received a boost his career until he was already in his thirties: In 1958, he took a part in the radio comedy Navy Lark addition to known comedians such as Jon Pertwee. Through this program the BBC Phillips became known to a wide audience. Until 1977 he worked in spite of all other obligations regularly at Navy Lark.
In subsequent years, Phillips was now playing leading roles, often charming bon vivants or snobbish and self-deprecating Don Juans. In 1959, he starred with Ted Ray in the great family love, a comedy by British director Gerald Thomas, resulting in a fruitful cooperation should arise. From the same, he was one of the main roles in Carry on Nurse, the second film in carry -on ... series. A total of five more times should Phillips are under the direction of Thomas with the same team on camera: in Carry on Teacher Carry on Constable and along with the related actual mistaken yes - our torpedo comes back and scandal at the Wigmore Hall. In 1960, he was by Gerald Thomas ' brother Ralph as a replacement for Dirk Bogardes main characters from the fourth film of his Doctor film series based on the novels by Richard Gordon. Unlike Bogarde Phillips embodied not the Dr. Sparrow, but twice the Dr. Burke ( three times daily and love A stowaway has a hard place ) and the Dr. Gaston Grimsdyke ( help, she loves me not ). In all three films, James Robertson Justice himself stood as the head physician Dr. Lancelot Spratt to the side. Together with Robertson Justice as a charmer, or gruff dignitaries turned Phillips twelve Comedies. He also played in international productions like the war movies hills of Secrets ( with Robert Mitchum ) and The Longest Day ( with an international star cast ), next Edouardo de Filippo in the Italian comedy Ferdinand - King of Naples and the drama Morocco 7 ( with Gene Barry and Denholm Elliott ).
In the 1970s, Phillips' film appearances were rare, until the mid-80s, he was seen more frequently on the big screen - but no longer as a lover, but in character roles. So he starred alongside Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in Out of Africa, opposite John Malkovich in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, alongside John Goodman in the comedy King Ralph, opposite Anthony Hopkins in the drama August, opposite Bruce Willis and Richard Gere in the thriller The Jackal and as a fatherly friend of Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. In 1992 he joined in the carry -on ... revival film Carry on Columbus and Ferdinand of Aragon and 1996, he took over for three Edgar Wallace productions of RTL in the footsteps of the late Siegfried Schürenberg the role of Scotland Yard chief inspector Sir John Archibald. In addition, Phillips has starred in numerous television series and TV productions, such as in a 1996 film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost with Neve Campbell and Patrick Stewart in the title role. Additionally, he was in the Harry Potter films the Sorting Hat his voice.
1997 Leslie Phillips was honored for his contributions to the arts with a special prize from the Evening Standard British Film Awards, and nominated for the same reasons of Elizabeth II to the Officer of the Order of the British Empire and in 2008 the Commander in winter 1998. Phillips is married to his second wife since 1982 with the British fellow actress Angela Scoular. This took, on 11 April 2011 at the age of 65 years to life. From the first marriage to the late 1982 Penelope Bartley four children come.