Line #8 Creator/LesliePhillips


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3	->''Ding dong!'' [[note]]He found it embarassing whenever he was asked to say it.[[/note]]
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5	Leslie Samuel Phillips [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever CBE]] (20 April 1924 - 7 November 2022) was an English actor, known for his appearances in the ''Film/DoctorSeries'', ''Film/CarryOn'', ''Film/HarryPotter'' and ''VideoGame/{{Gex}}''.
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7	He began his career in television and radio at the beginning of TheThirties as a young man with mostly uncredited roles in the early years, and then became well-known in his recurring appearances as Tom Bridger in ''My Wife Jacqueline'' from 1952. Later in the decade, he appeared as minor characters in three of the early ''Carry On'' films: ''Film/CarryOnNurse'', ''Film/CarryOnTeacher'' and ''Film/CarryOnConstable''. He then told producers that he wouldn't be returning for any future films after ''Constable'' (although he did appear later in the poorly received ''Film/CarryOnColumbus'' in 1992) and began appearing in the ''Film/{{Doctor}}'' films as well as becoming a frequent radio personality in the 1960s and '70s in the long-running ''Radio/TheNavyLark'' on Creator/{{BBC}} Radio 2. He also starred in sitcoms such as ''Series/ForeignAffairs1966'' and ''Series/TheCultureVultures''.
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9	After his marriage to ''Series/YouRangMLord'' actress Creator/AngelaScoular in 1982, Phillips turned away from comedic roles and appeared in ''Film/EmpireOfTheSun'' and ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'', and later received an OBE in 1998; he also provided the voice for the Gecko on the British release of ''[[VideoGame/{{Gex}} Gex: Enter the Gecko]]'' in the same year. In the 2000s, he provided the voice of the Sorting Hat for the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films, voice acting in ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher's Stone]]'', ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' and ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows (part 2)]]'', then he became nominated for a UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}} for the film ''Venus'' and received a CBE on top of his OBE in 2008. When Scoular died in 2011, he remarried to Zara Carr two years later.
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11	He passed away at the age of 98 in November 2022.
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13	!!Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:
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15	[[AC:Films]]
16	* ''Film/TheCitadel'' (1938) -- Young Man (UncreditedRole)
17	* ''{{Film/The Thief of Bagdad\|1940}}'' (1940) -- Urchin in Bagdad Market (UncreditedRole)
18	* ''Film/AnnaKarenina'' (1948) -- Young Man (UncreditedRole)
19	* ''{{Film/The Red Shoes\|1948}}'' (1948) -- Audience Member (UncreditedRole)
20	* ''Film/PoolOfLondon'' (1951) -- Harry
21	* ''Film/CarryOnNurse'' (1959) -- Jack Bell
22	* ''Film/CarryOnTeacher'' (1959) -- Mr. Alistair Grigg
23	* ''Film/PleaseTurnOver'' (1959) -- Dr. Henry Manners/Dr. Adam Gay
24	* ''Film/CarryOnConstable'' (1960) -- Constable Tom Potter
25	* ''Film/DoctorInLove'' (1960) -- Dr. Tony Burke
26	* ''Film/WatchYourStern'' (1960) -- First Lieutenant Commander Bill Fanshawe
27	* ''Film/NoKidding'' (1960) -- David Robinson
28	* ''Film/RaisingTheWind'' (1961) -- Mervyn Hughes
29	* ''Film/TheLongestDay'' (1962) -- RAF Officer Mac
30	* ''Film/DoctorInClover'' (1966) -- Dr. Gaston Grimsdyke
31	* ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'' (1970) -- Dr. Tony Burke
32	* ''Film/OutOfAfrica'' (1985) -- Sir Joseph
33	* ''Film/EmpireOfTheSun'' (1987) -- Maxton
34	* ''Film/KingRalph'' (1991) -- Gordon
35	* ''Film/CarryOnColumbus'' (1992) -- King Ferdinand
36	* ''Film/TheJackal'' (1997) -- Woolburton
37	* ''Film/SavingGrace'' (2000) -- Reverend Gerard Percy
38	* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' (2001) -- Wilson
39	* ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' (2001) -- Sorting Hat
40	* ''Film/{{Thunderpants}}'' (2002) -- Judge
41	* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' (2002) -- Sorting Hat
42	* ''Film/{{Millions}}'' (2004) -- AsHimself
43	* ''Film/ColourMeKubrick'' (2005) -- Freddie
44	* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallowsPart2'' (2011) -- Sorting Hat
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46	* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'', 4 episodes:
47	** "Friar Tuck" (1955) -- Sir William
48	** "Checkmate" (1955) -- Count de Waldern
49	** "A Village Wooing" (1956) -- Wat Longfellow
50	** "The Reluctant Rebel" (1960) -- Herbert
51	* ''{{Series/Foreign Affairs\|1966}}'', 6 episodes[[labelnote:show list]]"The Foreign Body", "Can We Have Our Ball Back?", "The Leak", "Learning to Compromise", "One of Our Islands is Missing", "The Exterminator"[[/labelnote]] (1966) -- Dennis Proudfoot
52	* ''Series/TheCultureVultures'', 5 episodes[[labelnote:show list]]"The Indiscreet Interview", "Rake's Progress", "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble", "Practical Demonstrations", "Spring Fever"[[/labelnote]] (1970) -- Dr. Michael Cunningham
53	* ''Series/SuperGran'', episode "Supergran and the Birthday Dambuster" (1987) -- POW
54	* ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'', episode "Rumpole and Portia" (1988) -- "Boxey" Horne
55	* ''Series/TheComicStripPresents'', 2 episodes:
56	** ''GLC: The Carnage Continues...'' (1990) -- Sir Horace Cutler
57	** ''Oxford'' (1990) -- Dean
58	* ''Series/{{Lovejoy}}'', episode "The Galloping Major" (1993) -- Major Eddie Turpin
59	* ''Series/ScreenOne'', 2 episodes:
60	** "Royal Celebration" (1993) -- Johnny
61	** "Two Golden Balls" (1994) -- Viscount Osgood
62	* ''Series/{{Woof}}'', episode "Dog Latin" (1995) -- Mr. Hawksmoor
63	* ''Series/TheBill'', episode "Cheating" (1996) -- Professor
64	* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', episode "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS7E1FatalCaper Fatal Caper]]" (1996) -- Mycroft Amberson
65	* ''{{ComicStrip/Dennis the Menace\|UK}}'', episode "Wanted!" (1996) -- Mr. Greenfly
66	* ''Series/DalzielAndPascoe'', episode "Recalled to Life" (1999) -- James Westropp
67	* ''Series/MonarchOfTheGlen'', 1 episode (2002) -- Louis Grimshaw
68	* ''Series/HolbyCity'', episode "Sins of the Father" (2002) -- Charles Campbell-Gore
69	* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'', episode "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS6E3 Painted in Blood]]" (2003) -- Godfrey Teal
70	* ''Series/{{Heartbeat}}'', episode "Risky Business" (2006) -- Denzil Witty
71	* ''Series/{{Marple}}'', episode "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" (2006) -- Sir Philip Starke
72	* ''Series/TheCatherineTateShow'', 1 episode (2006) -- Teddy Morris
73	* ''Series/TheLastDetective'', episode "The Dead Peasants Society" (2007) -- Alistair Robertson
74	[[AC:Video Games]]
75	* ''VideoGame/GexEnterTheGecko'' (1998) -- Gex

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