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.
Penthouse
(Tom Siddall)
The Criminal Code
(Robert Graham)
Galas de la Paramount
(Self (from original version))
The Wild Party
(Phil)
General Spanky
(Marshall Valient)
An American Tragedy
(Clyde Griffiths)
The Secret of Madame Blanche
(Leonard St. John)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
(Self (archive footage))
Confessions of a Co-Ed
(Dan Carter)
Nana
(Lieutenant George Muffat)
Night Court
(Mike Thomas)
Only the Brave
(Capt. Robert Darrington)
Man to Man
(Michael Bolton)
Men Must Fight
(Bob Seward)
Stolen Heaven
(Joe Bartlett)
Great Expectations
(Pip)
Beauty for Sale
(Burt Barton)
Grumpy
(Ernest Heron)
Stage Mother
(Lord Reggie Aylesworth)
Chatterbox
(Philip 'Phil' Greene Jr.)
Pointed Heels
(Donald Ogden)
The Devil's Holiday
(David Stone)
Broken Lullaby
(Paul Renard)
Varsity
(Middlebrook)
Storm at Daybreak
(Csaholyi)
Two Kinds of Women
(Joseph Gresham Jr.)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
('Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited))
Looking Forward
(Michael Service)
Dinner at Eight
(Ernest DeGraff)
Million Dollar Ransom
(Stan Casserly)
Caravan
(Lieutenant Von Tokay)
The Big Brain
(Terry Van Sloan)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
(Roger Longmore)
The House of a Thousand Candles
(Tony Carleton)
No Ransom
(Tom Wilson)
The Dominant Sex
(Dick Shale)
The Divine Spark
(Vincenzo Bellini)
Housemaster
(Philip de Pourville)
His Private Life
(Pierrot (uncredited))
Her Man
(Dan)
Make Me a Star
(Phillips Holmes (uncredited))
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
(Self (archive footage))
70,000 Witnesses
(Buck Buchan)
The House That Shadows Built
((archive footage))
The Big Parade of Comedy
(Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited))
Ten Minute Alibi
(Colin Derwent)
Stairs of Sand
(Adam Wansfell (as Phillips R. Holmes))