He was nominated for a BAFTA and won a British Independent Film Award for his role in Hanif Kurieshi’s film. Venus in 2006, in which he starred opposite Peter O’Toole, and received the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film from the London Critics Circle in 2007.
Phillips also appeared with Angelina Jolie in the 2001 feature. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
Born in 1924, Phillips’ distinctive voice and roles as upper-class British characters would make him famous in the UK and the US, along with his racy catchphrases “Ding Dong,” “Heee-llo” and “I Say” from movies like like continue master, Columbus continues Y carry on nurse.
He made his film debut in 1938 in lassie from lancashire and went on to appear in hundreds of stage and television roles, before taking on his role in the Harry Potter films towards the end of his career.
Phillips became an OBE in 1998 and was promoted to CBE in 2008.
