Leslie Phillips
Birthday
1924/04/20
Day of death
2022/11/07 (98 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Tottenham, London, England, UK
Also know as
Lesley Phillips, Leslie Samuel 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)....Read more
Acting
(1985) Out of Africa
as Sir Joseph
(2001) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as The Sorting Hat (voice)
(2002) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as The Sorting Hat (voice)
(2000) Saving Grace
as Vicar Gerald Perey
(2001) Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
as Wilson
(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) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as The Sorting Hat (voice)
(2006) Venus
as Ian
(1957) The Smallest Show on Earth
as Robin Carter
(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) Royal Celebration
as Johnny
(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) Das Karussell des Todes
as Sir John
(1996) Der Blinde
as Sir John
(2011) Late Bloomers
as Leo
(1953) The Limping Man
as Detective Cameron
(1961) Very Important Person
as Jimmy Cooper
(1994) Bermuda Grace
as ---
(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 ---
(2002) Thunderpants
as Judge
(1987) Empire of the Sun
as Maxton
(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
(2005) The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
as Self
(2001) Sword of Honour
as ---
(2000) Cinderella
as Felim
(1996) Die Katze von Kensington
as Sir John
(1939) The Mikado
as Boy
(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)
(2004) Churchill: The Hollywood Years
as Lord W'ruff
(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) Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
as Lincoln Bradley
(2009) Is Anybody There?
as Reg
(1951) Pool of London
as Harry
(1938) Lassie from Lancashire
as Bit Part
(1959) The Man Who Liked Funerals
as Simon Hurd
(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) Colour Me Kubrick
as Freddie
(1990) Life After Life
as Wing Commander Boyle
(1992) Thacker
as George Thacker
(1973) Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
as Minister
(1949) Train of Events
as Stacey's Fireman
(2013) Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
as Himself
(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
(1953) Time Bomb
as ---
(1951) The Galloping Major
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1948) Anna Karenina
as ---
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Godfrey Teal
(1984) The Bill
as ---
(1989) Tales from the Crypt
as Mycroft Amberson
(2000) Monarch of the Glen
as Louis Grimshaw
(1992) Heartbeat
as Denzil Witty
(1975) Rumpole of the Bailey
as ---
(1986) Lovejoy
as Major Eddie Turpin
(1994) Honey for Tea
as Sir Dickie Hobhouse
(1955) The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Sir William
(1956) Wire Service
as Keynes
(1990) Plunder
as ---
(1998) The Heaven and Earth Show
as ---
(1989) Summer's Lease
as William Fosdyke
(1967) Blandings Castle
as ---
(2002) Outside the Rules
as ---
(1999) It's Only TV But I Like It
as Self
(1994) The House of Windsor
as Lord Montague Bermondsey
(1994) Love on a Branch Line
as Lord Flamborough
(1963) Our Man At St Mark's
as ---
(2009) The Week We Went To War
as ---
(2010) Drama Trails
as ---
(1991) Performance
as Judge Michael Argyle
(1955) The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Wat Longfellow
(2008) Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong
as Self - Voiceover
(2001) Sword of Honour
as Gervase Crouchback
(1973) Casanova '73
as Henry Newhouse
(1987) The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Justin Whittaker
(1996) Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
as Mr. Greenfly (voice)
(1985) Super Gran
as P.O.W.
(2000) Take a Girl Like You
as ---
(1996) Dalziel & Pascoe
as James Westropp
(2004) Agatha Christie's Marple
as Sir Philip Starke
(2003) The Last Detective
as Alistair Robertson
(1956) Armchair Theatre
as Charlton
(1956) The Errol Flynn Theatre
as Venning
(1956) Armchair Theatre
as Clive Breeze
(1955) The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Herbert
(1955) The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Count de Waldern
(1958) The Invisible Man
as Sparrow
(1991) Performance
as Vermandero
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Sir Horace Cutler
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Dean