98-year-old British actor Leslie Phillips, known for her voice by Harry Potter fans, lost her struggle for life while her treatment continued.
Who is Leslie Phillips?
He was born on April 20, 1924 in London. His father died in 1935. After his father's death, Phillips was sent to Italia Conti Academy at his mother's insistence. There, she attended drama, dance and especially diction classes to lose her Cockney accent. Phillips made her film debut in 1938. Phillips made his film debut in the musical comedy Lassie from Lancashire in 1938. He rose to fame in the 1950s by playing fluid, upper-class comics roles using the slogans “Ding dong” and “Hello”. He starred in the Carry On and Doctor in the House film series, as well as the long-running BBC radio comedy series The Navy Lark. In her later career, Phillips took on dramatic roles, including a BAFTA nominee role with Peter O'Toole in Venus (2006). He gave the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter films.
Phillips married his first wife, actress Penelope Bartley (30–1948), on May 1925, 1981. The couple had four children.
In 1962, Phillips began a relationship with actress Caroline Mortimer, who was the daughter of writer Penelope Mortimer and the stepdaughter of John Mortimer, who was a backup in a play starring Phillips. Phillips and Bartley broke up at this point and divorced in 1965.
After his relationship with Mortimer ended, Phillips began a relationship with Australian actress Vicki Luke, with whom he lived for nearly three years.
Phillips moved in with actress Angela Scoular in 1977 and was pregnant by another actor at the time. She raised her son as her own.
In 1981, while touring Australia, Bartley was reported to have died in a fire. Phillips chose to continue production and did not attend his funeral. He later admitted that his family had never forgiven him for this decision.
Phillips married Scoular in 1982. Suffering from bipolar disorder, Scoular attempted suicide in 1992, but the cross-section was not taken.
Phillips received the Freedom of the City of London on 16 November 2010.
His second wife, Scoular, died on April 11, 2011, after ingesting an abrasive drain cleaner and suffering 40% burns to her throat, body, and nutritional system that left her unable to survive. She suffered from bowel cancer and although she was later declared cancer-free, she worried that the cancer had returned. Phillips was too ill to participate in the investigation into Scoular's death three months later. The coroner decided that Scoular's death was not a suicide, but rather that he "killed himself while his mind was out of balance."
Phillips was a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur and appeared as part of the halftime fun during the team's home game against Swansea City on 1 April 2012.
On December 20, 2013, at the age of 89, Phillips married his third wife, Zara Carr.
Phillips suffered two strokes six months apart at the age of 90. He died at his home in London on 7 November 2022, at the age of 98, after a long illness.
Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II. Received the Order of the British Empire from Elizabeth.
Movies With Leslie Phillips
- 1938 Lassie from Lancashire
- 1938 Castle
- 1938 High Climb
- 1939 The Mikado
- 1939 Four Feathers
- 1940 Proud Valley
- 1940 The Thief of Baghdad
- 1943 Rhythm Serenade
- 1946 Magic Bow
- 1948Anna Karenina
- 1948 Red shoes
- 1949 Events Train
- 1950 Nameless Woman
- 1951 London Pool
- 1952 Sound Barrier
- 1953 Fake
- 1954 You Know What Marines Are
- 1955 As long as they're happy
- 1955 Value for Your Money
- 1956 Gamma People
- 1956 Big Money
- 1957 The Barretts of Wimpole Street
- 1957 Law Brothers
- 1957 The Smallest Show in the World
- 1957 High Flight
- 1957 Little Girls
- 1957 it's just my luck
- 1958 I Was Monty's Couple
- 1959 Navy Field
- 1959 The Man Who Loved Funerals
- 1959 angry hills
- 1959 Resume Nurse
- 1959 Continue Teacher
- 1959 The Night We Downed a Clanger
- 1959 Please Turn Over
- 1959 Fernando I: King of Naples
- 1959 This Other Paradise
- The Inn for the 1960 Trouble
- 1960 Doctor in Love
- 1960 Watch Your Ass
- 1960 I'm not kidding
- 1961 A Weekend with Lulu
- 1961 Very important person
- 1961 Raising the Wind
- 1962 Anonymous Fraudsters
- 1962 In the doghouse
- 1962 longest day
- 1962 Fast Lady
- 1964 Your Father Came Too!
- 1965 You must be kidding!
- 1966 Clover Doctor
- 1967 Morocco 7
- 1970 Some Will Do
- 1970 Doctor in trouble
- 1971 The Great Seven Deadly Sins
- 1973 Not now darling
- 1974 Just Lying There
- 1975 Spanish Fly
- 1976 Not now, Comrade
- 1985 out of Africa sir
- 1987 empire of the sun
- 1989 Scandal
- 1990 Moon Mountains
- 1991 King Ralph
- Continue to 1992 Columbus
- 1996 August
- 1997 Caught red-handed
- 1997 Jackal
- 1998 Orgasm Raygun
- 2000 Saving Grace
- 2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
- 2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 2002 lightnings
- 2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- 2003 Collusion
- 2004 Millions
- 2004 Churchill: The Hollywood Years
- 2005 Color Me
- 2006 Venus
- 2008 Anyone out there?
- 2011 Late Bloomers Lion
- 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- 2012 Posthumous
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