Phillips Holmes

Phillips Holmes

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phillips Raymond Holmes (July 22, 1907 – August 12, 1942) was an American actor. In 1928 Holmes was spotted in the undergraduate crowd at Princeton University during the filming of Frank Tuttle's Varsity and offered a screen test. In the early 1930s he became a popular leading man, playing leads in a few important productions, notably in Josef von Sternberg's An American Tragedy. At Paramount, Holmes starred in melodrama and comedy. In 1933 his Paramount contract ran out and he moved to MGM for one year. As the decade progressed, his career declined, and he appeared in a few box-office failures, including Sam Goldwyn's poorly received Nana (1934). His last American movie was General Spanky (1936). In 1938 Holmes appeared in two UK movies. Housemaster was his last film. Then he returned to acting on stage in the United States. At the start of World War II, Holmes joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was killed in a mid-air collision in northwest Ontario, Canada in 1942. For his contributions to the film industry, Phillips Holmes was posthumously given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

  • Title: Phillips Holmes
  • Popularity: 3.739
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1907-07-22
  • Place of Birth: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
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  • Also Known As: Phillips Raymond Holmes, Phillips R. Holmes
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Phillips Holmes Movies

  • 1933
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    Penthouse

    Penthouse

    6.7 1933 HD

    Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping...

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  • 1931
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    The Criminal Code

    The Criminal Code

    6.093 1931 HD

    After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10...

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  • 1929
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    The Wild Party

    The Wild Party

    6.7 1929 HD

    Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets...

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  • 1936
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    General Spanky

    General Spanky

    5.3 1936 HD

    Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After...

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  • 1931
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    An American Tragedy

    An American Tragedy

    6.1 1931 HD

    A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

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  • 1933
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    The Secret of Madame Blanche

    The Secret of Madame Blanche

    4 1933 HD

    A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

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  • 1972
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    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    6 1972 HD

    A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

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  • 1931
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    Confessions of a Co-Ed

    Confessions of a Co-Ed

    5.8 1931 HD

    A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love....

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  • 1934
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    Nana

    Nana

    5 1934 HD

    Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck...

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    Night Court

    Night Court

    6.3 1932 HD

    A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.

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  • 1930
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    Only the Brave

    Only the Brave

    1 1930 HD

    Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to...

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    Man to Man

    Man to Man

    5.7 1930 HD

    A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.

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    Men Must Fight

    Men Must Fight

    5.7 1933 HD

    Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

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    Stolen Heaven

    Stolen Heaven

    5 1931 HD

    A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work....

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  • 1934
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    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    6.2 1934 HD

    A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the convict is captured, Pip meets the reclusive Miss...

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  • 1933
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    Beauty for Sale

    Beauty for Sale

    7 1933 HD

    A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of...

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  • 1930
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    Grumpy

    Grumpy

    4 1930 HD

    An exhaustingly cantankerous old man solves a jewel robbery.

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  • 1933
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    Stage Mother

    Stage Mother

    5 1933 HD

    Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even...

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  • 1936
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    Chatterbox

    Chatterbox

    6 1936 HD

    Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the...

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  • 1929
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    Pointed Heels

    Pointed Heels

    7.2 1929 HD

    Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss...

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  • 1930
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    The Devil's Holiday

    The Devil's Holiday

    6.4 1930 HD

    Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men,...

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  • 1932
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    Broken Lullaby

    Broken Lullaby

    7.5 1932 HD

    A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each...

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  • 1928
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    Varsity

    Varsity

    1 1928 HD

    The story deals with college life at Princeton with a different angle of situations and romance than is usually served from the screen (Tampa Times,...

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  • 1933
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    Storm at Daybreak

    Storm at Daybreak

    5.8 1933 HD

    Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into...

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  • 1932
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    Two Kinds of Women

    Two Kinds of Women

    5 1932 HD

    The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds...

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  • 1961
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    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    Hollywood: The Selznick Years

    3.3 1961 HD

    Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

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  • 1933
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    Looking Forward

    Looking Forward

    6.2 1933 HD

    Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.

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  • 1933
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    Dinner at Eight

    Dinner at Eight

    6.701 1933 HD

    An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of...

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  • 1934
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    Million Dollar Ransom

    Million Dollar Ransom

    1 1934 HD

    To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.

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  • 1934
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    Caravan

    Caravan

    1 1934 HD

    A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.

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  • 1933
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    The Big Brain

    The Big Brain

    1 1933 HD

    A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish,...

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  • 1929
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    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    1 1929 HD

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.

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  • 1936
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    The House of a Thousand Candles

    The House of a Thousand Candles

    1 1936 HD

    The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to...

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  • 1934
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    No Ransom

    No Ransom

    1 1934 HD

    In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat...

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  • 1937
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    The Dominant Sex

    The Dominant Sex

    6 1937 HD

    A mature comedy based on the hit stage play in which a loving but strained marriage is put to the test!

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  • 1935
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    The Divine Spark

    The Divine Spark

    1 1935 HD

    British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.

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  • 1938
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    Housemaster

    Housemaster

    1 1938 HD

    Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.

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  • 1928
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    His Private Life

    His Private Life

    1 1928 HD

    Story of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American tourist. He does everything he can to seduce her,...

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  • 1930
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    Her Man

    Her Man

    5.3 1930 HD

    A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

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  • 1932
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    Make Me a Star

    Make Me a Star

    5.5 1932 HD

    A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.

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  • 1988
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    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    8 1988 HD

    This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

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  • 1932
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    70,000 Witnesses

    70,000 Witnesses

    4.8 1932 HD

    College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses...

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  • 1931
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    The House That Shadows Built

    The House That Shadows Built

    7 1931 HD

    The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...

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  • 1964
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    The Big Parade of Comedy

    The Big Parade of Comedy

    6.3 1964 HD

    Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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  • 1935
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    Ten Minute Alibi

    Ten Minute Alibi

    6 1935 HD

    Derwent dreams up an unbreakable alibi for a murder. Once the crime is attempted, it then falls to Pember and Brace of Scotland Yard to sort things...

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  • 1929
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    Stairs of Sand

    Stairs of Sand

    1 1929 HD

    An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.

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