Phillips Holmes
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| Phillips Holmes | |
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 Phillips Holmes in a scene from An American Tragedy | |
| Born |
July 22, 1907 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died |
August 12, 1942 (aged 35) Ontario, Canada |
Phillips Holmes (July 22, 1907 – August 12, 1942) was an American film actor who appeared in 44 films between 1928 and 1938.
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of stage star Taylor Holmes, Holmes enjoyed a privileged childhood and received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, the University of Grenoble and a year at Princeton University where he was spotted in the undergraduate crowd during the filming of Frank Tuttle's Varsity in 1928 and offered a screen test.[1]
At the start of World War II, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was killed in a mid-air collision near Ontario, Canada.[2]
Holmes has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Partial filmography
- Her Market Value (1925) (uncredited)
- The Wild Party (1929)
- Stairs of Sand (1929)
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929)
- The Devil's Holiday (1930)
- Grumpy (1930)
- The Criminal Code (1931)
- An American Tragedy (1931)
- Broken Lullaby (1932)
- Night Court (1932) with Walter Huston, Lewis Stone and W S Van Dyke
- Men Must Fight (1933)
- Looking Forward (1933)
- Dinner at Eight (1933)
- Beauty for Sale (1933)
- Penthouse (1933)
- Stage Mother (1933)
- Nana (1934)
- Caravan (1934)
- Great Expectations (1934)
- The Divine Spark (1935)
- Chatterbox (1936)
- General Spanky (1936)
- The Dominant Sex (1937)
- Housemaster (1938)
References
- ↑ "Phillips Holmes '30 - Going Hollywood and After", Princeton University Library Chronicle, Volume 31, Autumn 1969
- ↑ "Actor Phillips Holmes Dies in Warplane Crash", Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1942
External links
- Phillips Holmes at the Internet Movie Database
- Photographs of Phillips Holmes
- Phillips Holmes at Find a Grave
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