Leslie Phillips

Born: 1924-04-20

Leslie Samuel Phillips CBE (20 April 1924 – 7 November 2022) was an English actor, director, producer and author. He achieved prominence in the 1950s, playing smooth, upper-class comic roles utilising his "Ding dong" and "Hello" catchphrases. He appeared 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 his later career, Phillips took on dramatic parts including a BAFTA-nominated role alongside Peter O'Toole in Venus (2006). He provided the voice of the Sorting Hat in several of the Harry Potter films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Phillips, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


See
Placeholder

as The Sorting Hat (voice)
Released: 2001-11-16

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his...

Movie page
See!
as The Sorting Hat (voice)
Released: 2002-11-13

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start...

Movie page
See!
as The Sorting Hat (voice)
Released: 2011-07-12

Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all....

Movie page
See!

The Jackal

as Woolburton
Released: 1997-11-14

Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother...

Movie page

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

as Wilson
Released: 2001-06-11

Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a...

Movie page

Out of Africa

as Sir Joseph
Released: 1985-12-20

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century...

Movie page

Empire of the Sun

as Maxton
Released: 1987-12-09

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force...

Movie page
as RAF Officer Mac
Released: 1962-09-25

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and...

Movie page
See!

King Ralph

as Gordon Halliwell
Released: 1991-02-15

As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must...

Movie page

Saving Grace

as Vicar Gerald Perey
Released: 2000-01-24

Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial...

Movie page

Les Girls

as Sir Gerald Wren
Released: 1957-10-03

After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls",...

Movie page

The Four Feathers

as Boy Doffing Cap at Parade
Released: 1939-04-20

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

Movie page

Scandal

as Lord Astor
Released: 1989-03-03

An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live...

Movie page

The Thief of Bagdad

as Urchin in Bagdad Market (uncredited)
Released: 1940-02-19

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces...

Movie page

Thunderpants

as Judge
Released: 2002-05-24

An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death...

Movie page

Venus

as Ian
Released: 2006-09-02

Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest...

Movie page

The Canterville Ghost

as George, Lord Canterville
Released: 1996-01-27

When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient...

Movie page

Anna Karenina

as uncredited
Released: 1948-01-22

Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to...

Movie page

Millions

as Himself
Released: 2004-04-29

Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of...

Movie page

Is Anybody There?

as Reg
Released: 2009-04-17

A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

Movie page

Colour Me Kubrick

as Freddie
Released: 2005-10-06

The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's...

Movie page

Mountains of the Moon

as Mr. Arundell
Released: 1990-02-16

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find...

Movie page

The Sound Barrier

as Controller
Released: 1952-10-10

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

Movie page

Carry On Columbus

as King Ferdinand
Released: 1992-10-02

Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the...

Movie page

Carry On Nurse

as Jack Bell
Released: 1959-01-30

In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital...

Movie page

Carry On Constable

as P.C. Tom Potter
Released: 1960-02-22

With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills...

Movie page

Ferdinand I King of Naples

as Giornalista inglese
Released: 1959-12-22

The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government...

Movie page

Carry On Teacher

as Alistair Grigg
Released: 1959-08-20

When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The...

Movie page

That's Carry On!

as Various Characters
Released: 1977-01-01

Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth...

Movie page

The Limping Man

as Detective Cameron
Released: 1953-12-11

An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become...

Movie page

The Smallest Show on Earth

as Robin Carter
Released: 1957-04-09

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a...

Movie page

Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime

as Prince Hugely Suave
Released: 2000-12-25

A televised pantomime of Aladdin with characters played by well-known celebrities.

Movie page

The Gamma People

as Howard Meade
Released: 1956-12-01

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the...

Movie page

Very Important Person

as Jimmy Cooper
Released: 1961-04-24

Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest...

Movie page

Pool of London

as Harry
Released: 1951-02-20

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Movie page

No Kidding

as David Robinson
Released: 1960-11-01

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a...

Movie page

Sword of Honour

as uncredited
Released: 2001-01-02

Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces...

Movie page

In the Doghouse

as Jimmy Fox-Upton
Released: 1962-05-17

After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.

Movie page

The Angry Hills

as Ray Taylor
Released: 1959-07-29

In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael...

Movie page

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

as Dickie (segment "Gluttony")
Released: 1971-11-01

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham...

Movie page

Please Turn Over

as Dr. Henry Manners
Released: 1959-12-17

The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged...

Movie page

Caught in the Act

as Sydney Fisher
Released: 1997-06-13

Lucinda goes on a trip away with her two friends Katherine and Amanda and convinces them to join...

Movie page

Not Now, Comrade

as Commander Rimmington
Released: 1976-01-01

Not Now, Comrade tells the story of Rudi, a Russian ballet star who defects to the West, and the...

Movie page

The Fast Lady

as Freddie
Released: 1962-12-14

A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon...

Movie page

The Citadel

as Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1938-10-29

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his...

Movie page

The Mikado

as Boy
Released: 1939-05-01

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing...

Movie page

I Was Monty's Double

as Major Tennant
Released: 1958-10-21

The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General...

Movie page

Spanish Fly

as Mike Scott
Released: 1976-02-01

British sex comedy. Sir Percy de Courcy accidentally turns some poor tasting wine into an...

Movie page

Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse

as Lincoln Bradley
Released: 1997-07-01

Writer Mark Easterbrook has a vested interest in solving the murder of a priest. That's because...

Movie page

Churchill: The Hollywood Years

as Lord W'ruff
Released: 2004-12-03

A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is...

Movie page

Cinderella

as Felim
Released: 2000-01-01

Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her...

Movie page

Late Bloomers

as Leo
Released: 2011-07-13

Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the...

Movie page

The Night We Dropped a Clanger

as Squadron Leader Thomas
Released: 1959-10-10

The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret...

Movie page

The Galloping Major

as Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1951-05-07

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake....

Movie page

Brothers in Law

as Shop Assistant
Released: 1957-03-04

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the...

Movie page

The Proud Valley

as Minor Role
Released: 1940-04-06

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make...

Movie page

Who Bombed Birmingham?

as Lord Chief Justice Lane
Released: 1990-04-22

Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris...

Movie page

Time Bomb

as uncredited
Released: 1953-02-05

When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call...

Movie page

Maroc 7

as Raymond Lowe
Released: 1967-03-22

The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan...

Movie page

Watch Your Stern

as Lt. Cmdr. Bill Fanshawe
Released: 1960-10-14

When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the...

Movie page

A Weekend with Lulu

as Timothy Gray
Released: 1961-04-10

Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances...

Movie page

Crooks Anonymous

as Dandy Forsdyke
Released: 1962-03-31

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods...

Movie page

Some Will, Some Won't

as Simon Russell
Released: 1970-04-01

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical...

Movie page

Inn for Trouble

as John Belcher
Released: 1960-01-31

Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the...

Movie page

Train of Events

as Stacey's Fireman
Released: 1949-01-18

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved,...

Movie page

The Big Money

as Receptionist
Released: 1958-06-09

Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have...

Movie page

Value for Money

as Robjohns
Released: 1955-08-09

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides...

Movie page

Thacker

as George Thacker
Released: 1992-04-20

A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret...

Movie page

Doctor in Clover

as Dr Gaston Grimsdyke
Released: 1966-03-08

Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in...

Movie page

Doctor in Love

as Dr Tony Burke
Released: 1960-07-12

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice,...

Movie page

Not Now Darling

as Gilbert Bodley
Released: 1973-03-01

A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.

Movie page

Der Blinde

as Sir John
Released: 1996-03-05

An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man...

Movie page

Just My Luck

as Hon. Richard Lumb
Released: 1957-11-14

Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window...

Movie page

As Long as They're Happy

as Box Office Manager
Released: 1955-03-15

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his...

Movie page

Die Katze von Kensington

as Sir John
Released: 1996-02-06

Whenever a criminal is killed in London, a black Jaguar is nearby, with a white cat always...

Movie page

Raising the Wind

as Mervyn Hughes
Released: 1961-09-06

'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James...

Movie page

The Fake

as Boy Student
Released: 1953-09-25

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them...

Movie page

What's a Carry On?

as uncredited
Released: 1998-12-29

Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive...

Movie page

Father Came Too!

as Roddy Chipfield
Released: 1964-02-11

When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling...

Movie page

High Flight

as Blake
Released: 1957-09-17

The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet...

Movie page

Two Golden Balls

as Viscount Osgood
Released: 1994-09-18

A repressed anti-porn campaigner meets a glamorous American porn actress who changes her outlook...

Movie page

Oxford

as Dean
Released: 1990-02-22

When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a...

Movie page

The Changeling

as Vermandero
Released: 1993-12-11

Just days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes...

Movie page

Royal Celebration

as Johnny
Released: 1993-09-26

A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal...

Movie page

Das Karussell des Todes

as Sir John
Released: 1996-02-27

Lady Osborne's gardener becomes the victim of a burglar when he catches him in the Lady's house....

Movie page

August

as Professor Alexander Blathwaite
Released: 1996-08-08

Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is...

Movie page

You Must Be Joking

as Young Husband
Released: 1965-08-03

A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a...

Movie page

The Navy Lark

as Lt. Pouter
Released: 1959-01-01

An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful...

Movie page

Doctor in Trouble

as Doctor Anthony Burke
Released: 1970-06-16

Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a...

Movie page

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

as Himself
Released: 2013-09-28

A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor,...

Movie page

Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!

as Minister
Released: 1973-10-17

Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the...

Movie page

After Death

as Jerimiah Jones
Released: 2012-10-05

Following the sudden death of their last surviving parent - their Dad, two brothers and two...

Movie page

The Trials of Oz

as Judge Michael Argyle
Released: 1991-11-09

Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine...

Movie page

The Comic Strip - A Retrospective

as Self
Released: 2005-07-04

A look back at the comedy series The Comic Strip Presents

Movie page

Bermuda Grace

as uncredited
Released: 1994-01-07

Movie page

Life After Life

as Wing Commander Boyle
Released: 1990-12-30

A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.

Movie page

This Other Eden

as Crispin Brown
Released: 1959-01-01

A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920s. The...

Movie page

The Man Who Liked Funerals

as Simon Hurd
Released: 1959-01-01

A man wants to help a youth club that is in danger of closure. He decides to resort to...

Movie page

Britain's Ugliest Models

as Himself (Narrator)
Released: 2009-10-29

This exclusive look into the leaders in alternative modeling allows you to explore the weird and...

Movie page

Midsomer Murders

as Godfrey Teal
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

TV Show page

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Sir Philip Starke
First aired: 2004-12-12

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St...

TV Show page

Rumpole of the Bailey

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-12-17

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer...

TV Show page

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Justin Whittaker
First aired: 1987-08-02

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television...

TV Show page

Heartbeat

as Denzil Witty
First aired: 1992-04-10

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...

TV Show page

Tales from the Crypt

as Mycroft Amberson
First aired: 1989-06-10

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and...

TV Show page

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Sir William
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

TV Show page

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Wat Longfellow
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

TV Show page

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Herbert
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

TV Show page

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Count de Waldern
First aired: 1955-09-26

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...

TV Show page

The Comic Strip Presents...

as Sir Horace Cutler
First aired: 1982-11-02

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are...

TV Show page

The Comic Strip Presents...

as Dean
First aired: 1982-11-02

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are...

TV Show page

The Bill

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-10-16

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...

TV Show page

Monarch of the Glen

as Louis Grimshaw
First aired: 2000-02-27

Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where...

TV Show page

Dalziel & Pascoe

as James Westropp
First aired: 1996-03-16

British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in...

TV Show page

Lovejoy

as Major Eddie Turpin
First aired: 1986-01-10

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...

TV Show page

Performance

as Judge Michael Argyle
First aired: 1991-02-22

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

TV Show page

Performance

as Vermandero
First aired: 1991-02-22

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

TV Show page

The Last Detective

as Alistair Robertson
First aired: 2003-02-07

"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he...

TV Show page

Super Gran

as P.O.W.
First aired: 1985-01-20

Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with...

TV Show page

The Invisible Man

as Sparrow
First aired: 1958-09-14

British scientist Peter Brady, while working on an invisibility formula, suffers a tragic...

TV Show page

Wire Service

as Keynes
First aired: 1956-10-04

Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.

TV Show page

The Errol Flynn Theatre

as Venning
First aired: 1956-09-15

The Errol Flynn Theatre is a short-lived anthology series presented by Errol Flynn, who would...

TV Show page

Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong

as Self - Voiceover
First aired: 2008-02-01

Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong was an entertainment show on Channel 4, presented by Alan Carr....

TV Show page

Summer's Lease

as William Fosdyke
First aired: 1989-11-01

Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull...

TV Show page

Take a Girl Like You

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-11-26

Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old Jenny Bunn, as she moves from her...

TV Show page

Sword of Honour

as Gervase Crouchback
First aired: 2001-01-02

Sword of Honour is a two-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s semi-autobiographical World War II...

TV Show page

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

as Mr. Greenfly (voice)
First aired: 1996-04-02

Dennis and Gnasher is an animated British TV series based on characters from The Beano comic, It...

TV Show page

Our Man At St Mark's

as uncredited
First aired: 1963-09-25

Trials and tribulations of the priest of Felgate village.

TV Show page

Casanova '73

as Henry Newhouse
First aired: 1973-09-13

Casanova '73 was a short-lived British sitcom broadcast on BBC1 in 1973. It was written by Ray...

TV Show page

Love on a Branch Line

as Lord Flamborough
First aired: 1994-06-12

Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line...

TV Show page

Armchair Theatre

as Charlton
First aired: 1956-07-08

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the...

TV Show page

Armchair Theatre

as Clive Breeze
First aired: 1956-07-08

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the...

TV Show page

The Week We Went To War

as uncredited
First aired: 2009-09-07

Katherine Jenkins and Michael Aspel celebrate the heroes of the Home Front.

TV Show page