"Gutted he's passed away and rest in peace.
But honestly I thought he'd died years ago.
He played a great cad and bounder."
I also thought he had died a long time ago. There is no way someone could now make a career out of playing the cad like he did. I used to love watch the repeats of his films when I was a kid. Ding dong indeed! |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"I maybe getting him confused with someone else,but I'm sure I saw a news story a few years ago about him being completely bankrupt and penniless living in squalor?"
I used to confuse him with David Niven. Both were upper class cads, Niven had a more sinister twist to his character.
Phililps always has the eye for the ladies and an E-type jag or two.
Hope his funeral includes one: he'd like that.
The original smoothie.
Repeat after me, "air-hair-lair" and say "Oh, hello!" in his inimitable style.
"Ding dong", even the bells will speak his language. |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"I maybe getting him confused with someone else,but I'm sure I saw a news story a few years ago about him being completely bankrupt and penniless living in squalor?
I used to confuse him with David Niven. Both were upper class cads, Niven had a more sinister twist to his character.
Phililps always has the eye for the ladies and an E-type jag or two.
Hope his funeral includes one: he'd like that.
The original smoothie.
Repeat after me, "air-hair-lair" and say "Oh, hello!" in his inimitable style.
"Ding dong", even the bells will speak his language."
Niven was a gentleman but with a liking for a good story regardless at times of actual facts.
Niven was born into class but was probably the son of another guy, an MP.
I think Philips was more lowly born but worked on his caddish character. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I maybe getting him confused with someone else,but I'm sure I saw a news story a few years ago about him being completely bankrupt and penniless living in squalor?"
Think that was Terry Thomas, he had Motor Neurone Disease and spent all his money on treatments and he and his wife were living in a bedsit. I think the Variety Club made his last few months better.
Leslie Phillips wife committed suicide a few years ago, and he then married again aged 89. Ding Dong! |
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