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Leslie Phillips and May Ling Rahman in The Fast Lady (1962)

Stanley Baxter and Leslie Phillips in The Fast Lady (1962)

Dick Emery and Leslie Phillips in The Fast Lady (1962)

Kathleen Harrison and Leslie Phillips in The Fast Lady (1962)

Christian Bale and Leslie Phillips in Empire of the Sun (1987)

Alexander Gauge, Richard Greene, Bernadette O'Farrell, and Leslie Phillips in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955)

Warwick Davis, Maggie Smith, Leslie Phillips, and Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

Alan Rickman, Richard Harris, Ian Hart, Leslie Phillips, Daniel Radcliffe, and Zoë Wanamaker in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

Paul Douglas, Jocelyn Lane, and Leslie Phillips in The Gamma People (1956)

Peter O'Toole, Richard Griffiths, and Leslie Phillips in Venus (2006)

Gene Kelly, Jacques Bergerac, and Leslie Phillips in Les Girls (1957)

John Goodman, Camille Coduri, and Leslie Phillips in King Ralph (1991)

Peter O'Toole and Leslie Phillips in Venus (2006)

Shirley Anne Field and Leslie Phillips at an event for Carnaby, M.D. (1966)

Stanley Baxter, James Robertson Justice, and Leslie Phillips in A Coming-Out Party (1961)

Shirley Anne Field, James Robertson Justice, and Leslie Phillips in Carnaby, M.D. (1966)

Leslie Phillips and Joan Sims in Doctor in Trouble (1970)

Robert Mitchum and Leslie Phillips in The Angry Hills (1959)

Jimmy Thompson, Eric Barker, Liz Fraser, Sidney James, Jennifer Jayne, James Robertson Justice, Paul Massie, Leslie Phillips, and Kenneth Williams in Roommates (1961)

Leslie Phillips and Harry Secombe in Doctor in Trouble (1970)

Leslie Phillips and Terry-Thomas in Spanish Fly (1976)

Sylvana Henriques and Leslie Phillips in Doctor in Trouble (1970)

Clive Owen and Leslie Phillips in Chancer (1990)

A much-loved comic actor who has specialized in playing plummy, quintessentially English stereotypes, Leslie Phillips' heart was in acting from a very young age. He received elocution lessons as a child in order to lose his natural cockney accent (at that time a regional British accent was a major impediment to an aspiring actor) and he attended the Italia Conti School.

During the Second World War he served with the Durham Light Infantry (1942-45), but was invalided out, suffering from shell shock. He returned to acting and it was during the 1950s that he established himself as a notable player in British movies. His greatest claim to fame to this day is the "Doctor" series of movies, which he inherited from Dirk Bogarde. He also worked on radio, most notably 'The Navy Lark' for the BBC.

In later life he returned to playing supporting roles and even appeared in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987). He continued to make cameo appearances in films and television, and became a regular guest on British chat shows.

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