Phillips Holmes

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-07-22 (35 years old)

Deathday

1942-08-12

Place of Birth

Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

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, includi...

Acting

1933

Penthouse

as Tom Siddall

1931

The Criminal Code

as Robert Graham

1929

1936

General Spanky

as Marshall Valient

1931

An American Tragedy

as Clyde Griffiths

1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche

as Leonard St. John

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1931

1934

Nana

as Lieutenant George Muffat

1932

Night Court

as Mike Thomas

1930

Only the Brave

as Capt. Robert Darrington

1930

Man to Man

as Michael Bolton

1933

Men Must Fight

as Bob Seward

1931

Stolen Heaven

as Joe Bartlett

1933

Beauty for Sale

as Burt Barton

1930

Grumpy

as Ernest Heron

1933

Stage Mother

as Lord Reggie Aylesworth

1936

Chatterbox

as Philip 'Phil' Greene Jr.

1929

Pointed Heels

as Donald Ogden

1930

The Devil's Holiday

as David Stone

1932

Broken Lullaby

as Paul Renard

1928

Varsity

as Middlebrook

1933

1932

Two Kinds of Women

as Joseph Gresham Jr.

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

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

1933

Looking Forward

as Michael Service

1933

Dinner at Eight

as Ernest DeGraff

1934

Million Dollar Ransom

as Stan Casserly

1934

Caravan

as Lieutenant Von Tokay

1933

The Big Brain

as Terry Van Sloan

1929

1934

No Ransom

as Tom Wilson

1937

The Dominant Sex

as Dick Shale

1935

The Divine Spark

as Vincenzo Bellini

1938

Housemaster

as Philip de Pourville

1928

His Private Life

as Pierrot (uncredited)

1930

Her Man

as Dan

1932

Make Me a Star

as Phillips Holmes (uncredited)

1988

1932

70,000 Witnesses

as Buck Buchan

1931

The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)

1935

Ten Minute Alibi

as Colin Derwent

1929

Stairs of Sand

as Adam Wansfell (as Phillips R. Holmes)

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