Betty Phillips
Birthday
1917/06/12
Day of death
2012/02/10 (94 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Also know as
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Biography
In her mid-teens she sang leading roles in musicals at Richmond High School and also sang in a girls' choir organized by Burton Kurth; in the early 1940s she studied voice with in turn Mignon Duke Gidy, Avis Phillips, and Phylis Inglis and piano with Phyllis Schuldt. She appeared at TUTS for the first time in a 1946 production of Robin Hood and subsequently played leads in more than 20 TUTS productions until 1960; she is best remembered for the role of Mrs. Anna in The King and I. Phillips' radi...Read more
Acting
(2009) 2012
as Elderly Driver
(1986) Nobody's Child
as Mother Superior
(1991) Showdown at Williams Creek
as ---
(1989) I Love You Perfect
as Landlord
(1990) Short Time
as Clerk
(1991) And the Sea Will Tell
as Juror #1
(1984) The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
as Mary Whitelaw
(2007) Bratz: Super Babyz
as Gran (voice)
(2008) Bratz Babyz Save Christmas
as Gran (voice)
(2002) I Was a Teenage Faust
as Grammy
(1987) Housekeeping
as Mrs. Jardine
(1994) Intersection
as Edwina
(2010) Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
as Cat Lady
(2008) The Secret Lives of Second Wives
as Moira
(1995) Jack Reed: One of Our Own
as Mary Quinn
(2011) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
as Mrs. Evesham
(1992) Shame
as Norma Curtis
(1995) Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
as Mysterious Woman
(1986) Hero in the Family
as Chairwoman
(2002) The Dead Zone
as Mrs. Stratton
(1987) 21 Jump Street
as Gramma Bessie
(1992) The Adventures of the Black Stallion
as ---
(2004) The Collector
as ---
(1999) So Weird
as Astrid
(1991) The Commish
as ---
(1985) MacGyver
as Mrs. Delaney
(1996) Millennium
as Abby
(1998) The New Addams Family
as Granmama Addams
(1995) The Outer Limits
as Sylvia Walker
(1987) 21 Jump Street
as Ms. Clopshaw
(1992) The Odyssey
as Sylvia Ziegler
(1985) MacGyver
as Bag Lady
(2006) Men in Trees
as Volunteer