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General Spanky

as Marshall Valient

1936
The House of a Thousand Candles

as Tony Carleton

1936
Great Expectations

as Pip

1934
Penthouse

as Tom Siddall

1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche

as Leonard St. John

1933
Stage Mother

as Lord Reggie Aylesworth

1933
Men Must Fight

as Bob Seward

1933
Storm at Daybreak

as Csaholyi

1933
Night Court

as Mike Thomas

1932
An American Tragedy

as Clyde Griffiths

1931
Stolen Heaven

as Joe Bartlett

1931
The Criminal Code

as Robert Graham

1931
The Devil's Holiday

as David Stone

1930
Only the Brave

as Capt. Robert Darrington

1930
Grumpy

as Ernest Heron

1930
Pointed Heels

as Donald Ogden

1929
Phillips Holmes Phillips Holmes

Birthday

1907-07-22

Place of Birth

Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Biography

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.
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