Phillips Holmes
Birthday
1907/07/22
Day of death
1942/08/12 (35 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Also know as
Phillips Raymond Holmes, Phillips R. 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 c...Read more
Acting
(1933) Penthouse
as Tom Siddall
(1931) The Criminal Code
as Robert Graham
(1929) The Wild Party
as Phil
(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) Confessions of a Co-Ed
as Dan Carter
(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
(1934) Great Expectations
as Pip
(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) Storm at Daybreak
as Csaholyi
(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) The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Roger Longmore
(1936) The House of a Thousand Candles
as Tony Carleton
(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) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(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)