Leslie Phillips

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-04-20 (98 years old)

Deathday

2022-11-07

Place of Birth

Tottenham, London, England, UK

Leslie Phillips

Biography

Leslie Samuel Phillips CBE (20 April 1924 – 7 November 2022) was an English actor, director, producer and author. He achieved prominence in the 1950s, playing smooth, upper-class comic roles utilising his "Ding dong" and "Hello" catchphrases. He appeared in the Carry On and Doctor in the House film series as well as the long-running BBC radio comedy series The Navy Lark. In his later career, Phillips took on dramatic parts including a BAFTA-nominated role alongside Peter O'Toole in Venus (2006). He provided the voice of the Sorting Hat in several of the Harry Potter films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Phillips, license...

Acting

1985

Out of Africa

as Sir Joseph

2001

2002

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

as The Sorting Hat (voice)

2000

Saving Grace

as Vicar Gerald Perey

1990

Mountains of the Moon

as Mr. Arundell

1991

King Ralph

as Gordon Halliwell

1997

The Jackal

as Woolburton

1960

Carry On Constable

as P.C. Tom Potter

1959

Carry On Teacher

as Alistair Grigg

1989

Scandal

as Lord Astor

2011

2006

Venus

as Ian

1957

1956

The Gamma People

as Howard Meade

1957

Les Girls

as Sir Gerald Wren

1962

The Fast Lady

as Freddie

1957

Just My Luck

as Hon. Richard Lumb

1993

1961

Raising the Wind

as Mervyn Hughes

1959

Ferdinand I King of Naples

as Giornalista inglese

1960

Doctor in Love

as Dr Tony Burke

1966

Doctor in Clover

as Dr Gaston Grimsdyke

1977

That's Carry On!

as Various Characters

1959

Please Turn Over

as Dr. Henry Manners

-

Hotel Caledonia

as The Narrator

1992

Carry On Columbus

as King Ferdinand

1976

Spanish Fly

as Mike Scott

1960

No Kidding

as David Robinson

1960

Watch Your Stern

as Lt. Cmdr. Bill Fanshawe

1996

Der Blinde

as Sir John

2011

1953

The Limping Man

as Detective Cameron

1961

Very Important Person

as Jimmy Cooper

1950

The Woman with No Name

as 1st Sapper officer

1970

Some Will, Some Won't

as Simon Russell

1958

The Big Money

as Receptionist

1961

A Weekend with Lulu

as Timothy Gray

1996

August

as Professor Alexander Blathwaite

1962

In the Doghouse

as Jimmy Fox-Upton

1955

Value for Money

as Robjohns

1967

Maroc 7

as Raymond Lowe

1962

Crooks Anonymous

as Dandy Forsdyke

1957

Brothers in Law

as Shop Assistant

1964

Father Came Too!

as Roddy Chipfield

1973

Not Now Darling

as Gilbert Bodley

1976

Not Now, Comrade

as Commander Rimmington

1959

The Night We Dropped a Clanger

as Squadron Leader Thomas

1991

The Trials of Oz

as Judge Michael Argyle

1971

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

as Dickie (segment "Gluttony")

1998

What's a Carry On?

as Self - Interviewee /Various Characters

2002

Thunderpants

as Judge

1987

1970

Doctor in Trouble

as Doctor Anthony Burke

2012

After Death

as Jerimiah Jones

1959

Carry On Nurse

as Jack Bell

1960

Inn for Trouble

as John Belcher

1959

The Navy Lark

as Lt. Pouter

1962

The Longest Day

as RAF Officer Mac

1965

You Must Be Joking

as Young Husband

1990

Oxford

as Dean

1952

The Sound Barrier

as Controller

2000

Cinderella

as Felim

1939

1939

The Four Feathers

as Boy Doffing Cap at Parade

1953

The Fake

as Boy Student

1997

Caught in the Act

as Sydney Fisher

1938

The Citadel

as Girl (uncredited)

2003

Collusion

as Herbert Ames

1990

Who Bombed Birmingham?

as Lord Chief Justice Lane

1965

The Gong Game

as Clive Breeze

1959

The Angry Hills

as Ray Taylor

1940

The Proud Valley

as Minor Role

1940

The Thief of Bagdad

as Urchin in Bagdad Market (uncredited)

1994

Two Golden Balls

as Viscount Osgood

1957

High Flight

as Blake

1997

1951

1938

2009

Britain's Ugliest Models

as Himself (Narrator)

2004

Millions

as Himself

1959

This Other Eden

as Crispin Brown

1996

The Canterville Ghost

as George, Lord Canterville

2005

1990

Life After Life

as Wing Commander Boyle

1992

Thacker

as George Thacker

1949

Train of Events

as Stacey's Fireman

1990

GLC: The Carnage Continues

as Sir Horace Cutler

1958

I Was Monty's Double

as Major Tennant

1955

As Long as They're Happy

as Box Office Manager

2000

Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime

as Prince Hugely Suave

1993

The Changeling

as Vermandero

1951

The Galloping Major

as Reporter (uncredited)

2007

The Dead Peasants Society

as Alistair Robertson

Production

1967

Maroc 7

as Producer

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