Phillips Holmes
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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
Credits
Dinner at Eight (1933)
as Ernest DeGraff
Pointed Heels (1929)
as Donald Ogden
Her Man (1930)
as Dan
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Self (archive footage)
Broken Lullaby (1932)
as Paul Renard
An American Tragedy (1931)
as Clyde Griffiths
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
The Criminal Code (1931)
as Robert Graham
Penthouse (1933)
as Tom Siddall
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
as Ernest DeGraff in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
Night Court (1932)
as Mike Thomas
Man to Man (1930)
as Michael Bolton
Great Expectations (1934)
as Pip
General Spanky (1936)
as Marshall Valient
Paramount on Parade (1930)
as Hunter ('Dream Girl')
Stage Mother (1933)
as Lord Reggie Aylesworth
Caravan (1934)
as Lieutenant Von Tokay
Only the Brave (1930)
as Capt. Robert Darrington
Uneasy Money (1918)
as Caddy (uncredited)
Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)
as Dan Carter
Men Must Fight (1933)
as Bob Seward
Storm at Daybreak (1933)
as Csaholyi
The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933)
as Leonard St. John
Million Dollar Ransom (1934)
as Stan Casserly
The Devil's Holiday (1930)
as David Stone
Make Me a Star (1932)
as Phillips Holmes (uncredited)
Chatterbox (1936)
as Philip 'Phil' Greene Jr.
Nana (1934)
as Lieutenant George Muffat
The Dancers (1930)
as Tony
Beauty for Sale (1933)
as Burt Barton
The House of a Thousand Candles (1936)
as Tony Carleton
The Wild Party (1929)
as Phil
Two Kinds of Women (1932)
as Joseph Gresham Jr.
Looking Forward (1933)
as Michael Service
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
as (archive footage)
The Dominant Sex (1937)
as Dick Shale
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929)
as Roger Longmore
The Big Brain (1933)
as Terry Van Sloan
Stolen Heaven (1931)
as Joe Bartlett
Stairs of Sand (1929)
as Adam Wansfell (as Phillips R. Holmes)
His Private Life (1928)
as Pierrot (uncredited)
Housemaster (1938)
as Philip de Pourville
70,000 Witnesses (1932)
as Buck Buchan
Varsity (1928)
as Middlebrook
Grumpy (1930)
as Ernest Heron
Ten Minute Alibi (1935)
as Colin Derwent
The Divine Spark (1935)
as Vincenzo Bellini
No Ransom (1934)
as Tom Wilson