Phillips Holmes
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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.
As Actor/Actress
Dinner at Eight
Ernest DeGraff
Pointed Heels
Donald Ogden
Confessions of a Co-Ed
Dan Carter
Caravan
Lieutenant Von Tokay
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Looking Forward
Michael Service
The Big Parade of Comedy
Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Stage Mother
Lord Reggie Aylesworth
Penthouse
Tom Siddall
Million Dollar Ransom
Stan Casserly
An American Tragedy
Clyde Griffiths
The Criminal Code
Robert Graham
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Leonard St. John
Broken Lullaby
Paul Renard
Night Court
Mike Thomas
70,000 Witnesses
Buck Buchan
The Wild Party
Phil
Man to Man
Michael Bolton
Housemaster
Philip de Pourville
Great Expectations
Pip
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
Chatterbox
Philip 'Phil' Greene Jr.
General Spanky
Marshall Valient
The House of a Thousand Candles
Tony Carleton
Grumpy
Ernest Heron
Her Man
Dan
Two Kinds of Women
Joseph Gresham Jr.
The Devil's Holiday
David Stone
Nana
Lieutenant George Muffat