Betty Phillips

In her mid-teens she sang leading roles in musicals at Richmond High School and also sang in a girls' choir organized by Burton Kurth; in the early 1940s she studied voice with in turn Mignon Duke Gidy, Avis Phillips, and Phylis Inglis and piano with Phyllis Schuldt. She appeared at TUTS for the first time in a 1946 production of Robin Hood and subsequently played leads in more than 20 TUTS productions until 1960; she is best remembered for the role of Mrs. Anna in The King and I. Phillips' radio career began in 1948 with a CBC Vancouver light classical series and has included regular appearances 1953-65 on the CBC's 'Leicester Square to Broadway'; variety work in 1955 on the BBC; solo, recital, and folksong performances on the CBC; and many British Columbia school broadcasts 1970-2. On CBC TV she sang Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus in 1954, co-starred 1956-7 with Ernie Prentice on 'Lolly-too-dum,' and was hostess 1965-7 for 'Bazaar.' Phillips has performed at the Vancouver International Festival and with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and has appeared in Vancouver Opera productions (Flora in La Traviata, 1961; Nicklausse in Tales of Hoffmann, 1961; Clotilde in Norma, 1963; Vera Boronell in The Consul, 1964; Zulma in The Italian Girl in Algiers, 1965; and the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, 1966). She has performed in musical comedy throughout Canada - on tour (1967) with One Hundred Years of Musical Comedy, at the 1968 and 1969 Charlottetown Festival; in Anne of Green Gables and Johnny Belinda, and at Winnipeg's Rainbow Stage in Fiddler on the Roof (1971). She sang locally in Theatre-in-the-Park productions of The Sound of Music (1974) and Fiddler on the Roof (1975), while studying 1972-6 at the University of British Columbia. As an actress she has played many roles at Bastion Theatre, Victoria, and the Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, and has also appeared at Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon and at Citadel Theatre, Edmonton. In the first Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Co season (1963) she appeared as Madame Dubonnet in The Boy Friend and has continued to act for that company over the years. She has been in over 40 Canadian and US movies, some of them feature films and the others made for television. In 1962, Phillips married the actor, writer, and librettist Peter Haworth, who has collaborated with Leonard Wilson, Healey Willan, and the English composer Robert Simpson.

Known For: Acting

Born: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1917-06-12

Died: 2012-02-10

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	The Three Wishes of Billy Grier	Mary Whitelaw	50
2	1986	Nobody's Child	Mother Superior	74
3	1986	Hero in the Family	Chairwoman	61
4	1987	Housekeeping	Mrs. Jardine	66
5	1989	I Love You Perfect	Landlord	0
6	1990	Short Time	Clerk	64
7	1991	And the Sea Will Tell	Juror #1	64
8	1991	Showdown at Williams Creek		62
9	1992	Shame	Norma Curtis	65
10	1994	Intersection	Edwina	51
11	1995	Jack Reed: One of Our Own	Mary Quinn	49
12	1995	Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain	Mysterious Woman	62
13	2002	I Was a Teenage Faust	Grammy	55
14	2007	Bratz: Super Babyz	Gran (voice)	65
15	2008	The Secret Lives of Second Wives	Moira	30
16	2008	Bratz Babyz Save Christmas	Gran (voice)	70
17	2009	2012	Elderly Driver	59
18	2010	Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore	Cat Lady	52
19	2011	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules	Mrs. Evesham	67

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1985	MacGyver	Mrs. Delaney	77
2	1985	MacGyver	Bag Lady	77
3	1987	21 Jump Street	Gramma Bessie	72
4	1987	21 Jump Street	Ms. Clopshaw	72
5	1991	The Commish		71
6	1992	The Adventures of the Black Stallion		63
7	1992	The Odyssey	Sylvia Ziegler	73
8	1995	The Outer Limits	Sylvia Walker	77
9	1996	Millennium	Abby	77
10	1998	The New Addams Family	Granmama Addams	73
11	1999	So Weird	Astrid	61
12	2002	The Dead Zone	Mrs. Stratton	72
13	2004	The Collector		57

Betty Phillips

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