- Born Name: Phillips Holmes
- Birthday: 1907-07-22 (Year-Month-Day)
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Phillips Holmes, Phillips Holmes (July 22, 1907 - August 12, 1942) was an American film actor who appeared in 44 films between 1928 and 1938. His credits included Grumpy, An American Tragedy, Broken Lullaby, Dinner at Eight, and Great Expectations.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of stage star Taylor Holmes, Holmes enjoyed a privileged childhood and received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, the University of Grenoble and a year at Princeton University where he was spotted in the undergraduate crowd during the filming of Frank Tuttles Varsity in 1928 and offered a screen test.At the start of World War II, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was killed in a mid-air collision near Ontario, Canada.Holmes has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[edit] References^ Phillips Holmes 30 - Going Hollywood and After, Princeton University Library Chronicle, Volume 31, Autumn 1969^ Actor Phillips Holmes Dies in Warplane Crash, Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1942[edit] External linksBiography portalPhillips Holmes at the Internet Movie DatabasePhotographs of Phillips HolmesPhillips Holmes at Find a GravePersondataNameHolmes, PhillipsAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birthJuly 22, 1907Place of birthGrand Rapids, MichiganDate of deathAugust 12, 1942Place of deathOntario, CanadaThis article about a United States film actor or actress born in the 1900s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · eRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_HolmesCategories: 1907 births | 1942 deaths | American film actors | Canadian military personnel of World War II | People from Grand Rapids, Michigan | Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Canada | American film actor, 1900s birth stubsHidden categories: Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutsch This page was last modified on 12 December 2010 at 08:55.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();