Leslie Phillips RIP

[dickythorpe]

Ding dong dead.

Good innings 98

 

[Darran]

He looked dead when I saw him at White Hart Lane when we played Spurs in 2012 so he’s done well to last another 10 years.

 

[Squarebear]

I can't remember the last time I saw him in anything but even the thought of seeing him on screen brings a broad grin to my face.

I dunno whether his acting range extended much beyond "Oh, I say!" and "Ding Dong!" but if it didn't, and he was simply a one trick pony, it was a bloody good trick and he played it very well.

RIP, old man. I thought you'd gone years ago.

 

[Glyn1]

A Ferdie with stevethejack's thread posted 3 minutes earlier.

 

[Glyn1]

I can't remember the last time I saw him in anything but even the thought of seeing him on screen brings a broad grin to my face.

I dunno whether his acting range extended much beyond "Oh, I say!" and "Ding Dong!" but if it didn't, and he was simply a one trick pony, it was a bloody good trick and he played it very well.

RIP, old man. I thought you'd gone years ago.

He seems to have had a more varied career after the Carry On films than the rest of the cast.

"Despite his louche and carefree acting persona, Phillips was an ambitious and hard-working artist who in the late 60s toured the world in his own West End hit, The Man Most Likely To... – he rewrote Joyce Rayburn’s play, took the lead, produced and directed it. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in his mid-70s and featured in several major films, including George Cukor’s Les Girls (1957), with Gene Kelly and Kay Kendall, Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa (1985), Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun (1987) and Roger Michell’s Venus (2007), playing an old thespian alongside Peter O’Toole and Richard Griffiths. In the new millennium he had good TV roles in Monarch of the Glen and Miss Marple. An excellent television version of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy, adapted by William Boyd (2002), had him in the role of Gervase Crouchback, father of Daniel Craig’s anti-heroic Guy, and he regained his dog collar in Nigel Cole’s charming movie Saving Grace (2000), starring Blenda Blethyn. For the Harry Potter films he voiced the Sorting Hat at Hogwarts."

In 1997 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Evening Standard, and 10 years later another from the Critics’ Circle. In 1998 he was appointed OBE, and in 2008 CBE.

 

[Best_loser]

The army sent him to officer college due to his posh voice , they thought it was genuine

RIP

 

[Pegojack]

He looked dead when I saw him at White Hart Lane when we played Spurs in 2012 so he’s done well to last another 10 years.

I was there, remember him being trotted out at half time and getting a good ovation from Spurs and Swans fans.