Leslie Phillips, who starred in “Carry On” and the “Harry Potter” films, has passed away at 98.
Leslie Phillips being reunited, for the first time In 40 Years, with his"Fast Lady" vintage Bentley at The Masterpiece London, Chelsea Bridge, London.Comic actors Leslie Phillips and Jon Pertwee wearing sailors hats and mugging to the camera, on board the HMS Troubridge to promote their BBC radio show"Navy Lark," at Tower Bridge, London, March 26, 1969.Leslie Phillips marries Angela Scoular at the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, July 31, 1982.
Despite his success, Phillips began to resent being typecast as a wise-cracking womanizer. This came to a head when his pals dubbed him “King Leer” after he played King Lear in a performance for the Royal Shakespeare Company.. “It wasn’t necessarily a bad rut, and some people might actually want to be in that particular rut, but I wanted to get out.”
Thankfully, he also took on memorable dramatic roles in films later on, including “Out of Africa,” “Empire of the Sun,” and, more recently, “Venus” opposite Peter O’Toole.Phillips poses for photographs after receiving his Commander of the British Empire from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London, on May 7, 2008.Phillips poses during a portrait session at the 17th British Film Festival on October 6, 2006, in Dinard, France.
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