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person_profile-Phillips Holmes

Phillips Holmes Died at age: 35

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Jul 22, 1907

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Aug 12, 1942

Biography of

Phillips Holmes

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Phillips Raymond Holmes (July 22, 1907 – August 12, 1942) was an American actor. In 1928 Holmes was spotted in the undergraduate crowd at Princeton University during the filming of Frank Tuttle's Varsity and offered a screen test. In the early 1930s he became a popular leading man, playing leads in a few important productions, notably in Josef von Sternberg's An American Tragedy.

    At Paramount, Holmes starred in melodrama and comedy. In 1933 his Paramount contract ran out and he moved to MGM for one year. As the decade progressed, his career declined, and he appeared in a few box-office failures, including Sam Goldwyn's poorly received Nana (1934). His last American movie was General Spanky (1936). In 1938 Holmes appeared in two UK movies. Housemaster was his last film. Then he returned to acting on stage in the United States.

    At the start of World War II, Holmes joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was killed in a mid-air collision in northwest Ontario, Canada in 1942.

    For his contributions to the film industry, Phillips Holmes was posthumously given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

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Phillips Holmes

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Filmography of

Phillips Holmes

Found 44 Movies in total

... 1988

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1972

The Big Parade of Comedy

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1964

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1961

Housemaster

Philip de Pourville ( Actor )

... 1938

The Dominant Sex

Dick Shale ( Actor )

... 1937

General Spanky

Marshall Valient ( Actor )

... 1936

The House of a Thousand Candles

Tony Carleton ( Actor )

... 1936

Chatterbox

Philip 'Phil' Greene Jr. ( Actor )

... 1936

Caravan

Lieutenant Von Tokay ( Actor )

... 1934

Great Expectations

Pip ( Actor )

... 1934

Million Dollar Ransom

Stan Casserly ( Actor )

... 1934

Nana

Lieutenant George Muffat ( Actor )

... 1934

Dinner at Eight

Ernest DeGraff ( Actor )

... 1933

Stage Mother

Lord Reggie Aylesworth ( Actor )

... 1933

Penthouse

Tom Siddall ( Actor )

... 1933

Beauty for Sale

Burt Barton ( Actor )

... 1933

The Big Brain

Terry Van Sloan ( Actor )

... 1933

Storm at Daybreak

Csaholyi ( Actor )

... 1933

Looking Forward

Michael Service ( Actor )

... 1933

Men Must Fight

Bob Seward ( Actor )

... 1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche

Leonard St. John ( Actor )

... 1933

70,000 Witnesses

Buck Buchan ( Actor )

... 1932

Make Me a Star

Phillips Holmes (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Night Court

Mike Thomas ( Actor )

... 1932

Broken Lullaby

Paul Renard ( Actor )

... 1932

Two Kinds of Women

Joseph Gresham Jr. ( Actor )

... 1932

An American Tragedy

Clyde Griffiths ( Actor )

... 1931

Confessions of a Co-Ed

Dan Carter ( Actor )

... 1931

The House That Shadows Built

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1931

Stolen Heaven

Joe Bartlett ( Actor )

... 1931

The Criminal Code

Robert Graham ( Actor )

... 1931

Man to Man

Michael Bolton ( Actor )

... 1930

Her Man

Dan Keefe ( Actor )

... 1930

Grumpy

Ernest Heron ( Actor )

... 1930

Galas de la Paramount

Self (from original version) ( Actor )

... 1930

The Devil's Holiday

David Stone ( Actor )

... 1930

Only the Brave

Capt. Robert Darrington ( Actor )

... 1930

Pointed Heels

Donald Ogden ( Actor )

... 1929

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Roger Longmore ( Actor )

... 1929

Stairs of Sand

Adam Wansfell (as Phillips R. Holmes) ( Actor )

... 1929

The Wild Party

Phil ( Actor )

... 1929

His Private Life

Pierrot (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1928

Varsity

Middlebrook ( Actor )

... 1928