Phillips Holmes
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1907-07-22
Day of Death
1942-08-12 (35 years old)
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, 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
Acting
(1988)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1972)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(1964)
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
(1961)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'Dinner at Eight' (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1938)
Housemaster
as Philip de Pourville
(1937)
The Dominant Sex
as Dick Shale
(1936)
Chatterbox
as Philip 'Phil' Greene Jr.
(1936)
General Spanky
as Marshall Valient
(1936)
The House of a Thousand Candles
as Tony Carleton
(1935)
Ten Minute Alibi
as Colin Derwent
(1935)
The Divine Spark
as Vincenzo Bellini
(1934)
Nana
as Lieutenant George Muffat
(1934)
Great Expectations
as Pip
(1934)
Million Dollar Ransom
as Stan Casserly
(1934)
Caravan
as Lieutenant Von Tokay
(1934)
No Ransom
as Tom Wilson
(1933)
Dinner at Eight
as Ernest DeGraff
(1933)
Penthouse
as Tom Siddall
(1933)
Storm at Daybreak
as Csaholyi
(1933)
Men Must Fight
as Bob Seward
(1933)
The Secret of Madame Blanche
as Leonard St. John
(1933)
The Big Brain
as Terry Van Sloan
(1933)
Stage Mother
as Lord Reggie Aylesworth
(1933)
Beauty for Sale
as Burt Barton
(1933)
Looking Forward
as Michael Service
(1932)
Broken Lullaby
as Paul Renard
(1932)
Make Me a Star
as Phillips Holmes (uncredited)
(1932)
70,000 Witnesses
as Buck Buchan
(1932)
Night Court
as Mike Thomas
(1932)
Two Kinds of Women
as Joseph Gresham Jr.
(1931)
An American Tragedy
as Clyde Griffiths
(1931)
The Criminal Code
as Robert Graham
(1931)
Stolen Heaven
as Joe Bartlett
(1931)
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
(1931)
Confessions of a Co-Ed
as Dan Carter
(1930)
Grumpy
as Ernest Heron
(1930)
Man to Man
as Michael Bolton
(1930)
The Devil's Holiday
as David Stone
(1930)
Only the Brave
as Capt. Robert Darrington
(1930)
Her Man
as Dan
(1929)
The Wild Party
as Phil
(1929)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Roger Longmore
(1929)
Pointed Heels
as Donald Ogden
(1929)
Stairs of Sand
as Adam Wansfell (as Phillips R. Holmes)
(1928)
Varsity
as Middlebrook
(1928)
His Private Life
as Pierrot (uncredited)