Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 22, 1907
Died
Aug 12, 1942
Place of Birth
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Credits
48 titles
Phillips Holmes
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Housemaster
Philip de Pourville
The Dominant Sex
Dick Shale
General Spanky
Marshall Valient
The House of a Thousand Candles
Tony Carleton
Chatterbox
Philip 'Phil' Greene Jr.
Ten Minute Alibi
Colin Derwent
The Divine Spark
Vincenzo Bellini
Caravan
Lieutenant Von Tokay
Great Expectations
Pip
No Ransom
Tom Wilson
Million Dollar Ransom
Stan Casserly
Nana
Lieutenant George Muffat
Dinner at Eight
Ernest DeGraff
Stage Mother
Lord Reggie Aylesworth
Penthouse
Tom Siddall
Beauty for Sale
Burt Barton
The Big Brain
Terry Van Sloan
Storm at Daybreak
Csaholyi
Looking Forward
Michael Service
Men Must Fight
Bob Seward
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Leonard St. John
70,000 Witnesses
Buck Buchan
Make Me a Star
Phillips Holmes (uncredited)
Night Court
Mike Thomas
Broken Lullaby
Paul Renard
Two Kinds of Women
Joseph Gresham Jr.
An American Tragedy
Clyde Griffiths
Confessions of a Co-Ed
Dan Carter
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
Stolen Heaven
Joe Bartlett
The Criminal Code
Robert Graham
Man to Man
Michael Bolton
The Dancers
Tony
Her Man
Dan
Grumpy
Ernest Heron
The Devil's Holiday
David Stone
Paramount on Parade
Hunter ('Dream Girl')
Only the Brave
Capt. Robert Darrington
Pointed Heels
Donald Ogden
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Roger Longmore
Stairs of Sand
Adam Wansfell (as Phillips R. Holmes)
The Wild Party
Phil
His Private Life
Pierrot (uncredited)
Varsity
Middlebrook
Uneasy Money
Caddy (uncredited)