Leslie Phillips

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

Known For: Acting

Born: Tottenham, London, England, UK, 1924-04-20

Died: 2022-11-07

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Woman with No Name	1st Sapper officer	60
2	1953	The Limping Man	Detective Cameron	52
3	1955	Value for Money	Robjohns	66
4	1956	The Gamma People	Howard Meade	51
5	1957	Brothers in Law	Shop Assistant	71
6	1957	The Smallest Show on Earth	Robin Carter	66
7	1957	Les Girls	Sir Gerald Wren	64
8	1957	Just My Luck	Hon. Richard Lumb	60
9	1958	The Big Money	Receptionist	64
10	1959	Carry On Teacher	Alistair Grigg	62
11	1959	The Night We Dropped a Clanger	Squadron Leader Thomas	59
12	1959	Please Turn Over	Dr. Henry Manners	58
13	1959	Ferdinand I King of Naples	Giornalista inglese	68
14	1960	Carry On Constable	P.C. Tom Potter	63
15	1960	Doctor in Love	Dr Tony Burke	55
16	1960	Watch Your Stern	Lt. Cmdr. Bill Fanshawe	57
17	1960	No Kidding	David Robinson	60
18	1961	A Weekend with Lulu	Timothy Gray	54
19	1961	Very Important Person	Jimmy Cooper	55
20	1961	Raising the Wind	Mervyn Hughes	66
21	1962	Crooks Anonymous	Dandy Forsdyke	63
22	1962	In the Doghouse	Jimmy Fox-Upton	69
23	1962	The Fast Lady	Freddie	56
24	1964	Father Came Too!	Roddy Chipfield	60
25	1966	Doctor in Clover	Dr Gaston Grimsdyke	60
26	1967	Maroc 7	Raymond Lowe	50
27	1970	Some Will, Some Won't	Simon Russell	60
28	1971	The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins	Dickie (segment "Gluttony")	51
29	1973	Not Now Darling	Gilbert Bodley	62
30	1976	Not Now, Comrade	Commander Rimmington	53
31	1976	Spanish Fly	Mike Scott	51
32	1977	That's Carry On!	Various Characters	58
33	1985	Out of Africa	Sir Joseph	72
34	1989	Scandal	Lord Astor	59
35	1990	Mountains of the Moon	Mr. Arundell	65
36	1991	King Ralph	Gordon Halliwell	54
37	1991	The Trials of Oz	Judge Michael Argyle	60
38	1992	Carry On Columbus	King Ferdinand	38
39	1993	Royal Celebration	Johnny	60
40	1994	Bermuda Grace		0
41	1996	Das Karussell des Todes	Sir John	50
42	1996	Der Blinde	Sir John	40
43	1996	August	Professor Alexander Blathwaite	40
44	1997	The Jackal	Woolburton	64
45	1998	What's a Carry On?		72
46	2000	Saving Grace	Vicar Gerald Perey	65
47	2001	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider	Wilson	59
48	2001	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	The Sorting Hat (voice)	79
49	2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	The Sorting Hat (voice)	77
50	2006	Venus	Ian	66
51	2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	The Sorting Hat (voice)	81
52		Hotel Caledonia	The Narrator	0
53	1938	Lassie from Lancashire	Bit Part	60
54	1938	The Citadel	Girl (uncredited)	63
55	1939	The Four Feathers	Boy Doffing Cap at Parade	70
56	1939	The Mikado	Boy	66
57	1940	The Thief of Bagdad	Urchin in Bagdad Market (uncredited)	71
58	1940	The Proud Valley	Minor Role	62
59	1948	Anna Karenina		60
60	1949	Train of Events	Stacey's Fireman	62
61	1951	Pool of London	Harry	64
62	1951	The Galloping Major	Reporter (uncredited)	60
63	1952	The Sound Barrier	Controller	65
64	1953	Time Bomb		52
65	1953	The Fake	Boy Student	55
66	1955	As Long as They're Happy	Box Office Manager	77
67	1957	High Flight	Blake	58
68	1958	I Was Monty's Double	Major Tennant	68
69	1959	The Navy Lark	Lt. Pouter	68
70	1959	The Man Who Liked Funerals	Simon Hurd	0
71	1959	This Other Eden	Crispin Brown	0
72	1959	Carry On Nurse	Jack Bell	62
73	1959	The Angry Hills	Ray Taylor	45
74	1960	Inn for Trouble	John Belcher	65
75	1962	The Longest Day	RAF Officer Mac	76
76	1965	You Must Be Joking	Young Husband	56
77	1965	The Gong Game	Clive Breeze	0
78	1970	Doctor in Trouble	Doctor Anthony Burke	51
79	1973	Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!	Minister	53
80	1987	Empire of the Sun	Maxton	75
81	1990	GLC: The Carnage Continues	Sir Horace Cutler	0
82	1990	Oxford	Dean	0
83	1990	Who Bombed Birmingham?	Lord Chief Justice Lane	70
84	1990	Life After Life	Wing Commander Boyle	0
85	1992	Thacker	George Thacker	0
86	1993	The Changeling	Vermandero	0
87	1994	Two Golden Balls	Viscount Osgood	30
88	1996	The Canterville Ghost	George, Lord Canterville	60
89	1996	Die Katze von Kensington	Sir John	40
90	1997	Caught in the Act	Sydney Fisher	0
91	1997	Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse	Lincoln Bradley	56
92	2000	Cinderella	Felim	61
93	2000	Aladdin: The ITV Pantomime	Prince Hugely Suave	90
94	2001	Sword of Honour		61
95	2002	Thunderpants	Judge	35
96	2003	Collusion	Herbert Ames	50
97	2004	Millions	Himself	64
98	2004	Churchill: The Hollywood Years	Lord W'ruff	53
99	2005	The Comic Strip - A Retrospective	Self	60
100	2005	Colour Me Kubrick	Freddie	57
101	2009	Is Anybody There?	Reg	62
102	2009	Britain's Ugliest Models	Himself (Narrator)	0
103	2011	Late Bloomers	Leo	52
104	2012	After Death	Jerimiah Jones	41
105	2013	Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips	Himself	83

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Sir William	64
2	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Wat Longfellow	64
3	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Count de Waldern	64
4	1955	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Herbert	64
5	1956	Armchair Theatre	Clive Breeze	58
6	1956	Armchair Theatre	Charlton	58
7	1956	The Errol Flynn Theatre	Venning	0
8	1956	Wire Service	Keynes	0
9	1958	The Invisible Man	Sparrow	72
10	1963	Our Man At St Mark's		0
11	1967	Blandings Castle		0
12	1973	Casanova '73	Henry Newhouse	60
13	1975	Rumpole of the Bailey		71
14	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Sir Horace Cutler	73
15	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Dean	73
16	1984	The Bill		67
17	1985	Super Gran	P.O.W.	65
18	1986	Lovejoy	Major Eddie Turpin	73
19	1987	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Justin Whittaker	62
20	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Mycroft Amberson	80
21	1989	Summer's Lease	William Fosdyke	75
22	1990	Plunder		0
23	1991	Performance	Judge Michael Argyle	60
24	1991	Performance	Vermandero	60
25	1992	Heartbeat	Denzil Witty	70
26	1994	Honey for Tea	Sir Dickie Hobhouse	50
27	1994	The House of Windsor	Lord Montague Bermondsey	0
28	1994	Love on a Branch Line	Lord Flamborough	50
29	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe	James Westropp	64
30	1996	Dennis the Menace and Gnasher	Mr. Greenfly (voice)	50
31	1997	Midsomer Murders	Godfrey Teal	75
32	1998	The Heaven and Earth Show		32
33	1999	It's Only TV But I Like It	Self	60
34	2000	Monarch of the Glen	Louis Grimshaw	75
35	2000	Take a Girl Like You		0
36	2001	Sword of Honour	Gervase Crouchback	73
37	2002	Outside the Rules		0
38	2003	The Last Detective	Alistair Robertson	75
39	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Sir Philip Starke	76
40	2008	Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong	Self - Voiceover	40
41	2009	The Week We Went To War		50
42	2010	Drama Trails		0