Best Leslie Phillips movies

Leslie Phillips as: Lord Astor
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Release: 1989
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Oliver Ford Davies movies?

Leslie Phillips as: George, Lord Canterville
Genre: TV Movie, Fantasy, Drama, Family
Release: 1996
When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She campaigns to go back home, and her dad, believing the ghost's pranks are Ginny's, is ready to send her back. But then Ginny actually meets the elusive 17th-century Sir Simon de Canterville (not to mention the cute teenaged duke next door), and she sets her hand to the task of freeing Sir Simon from his curse.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Charles Laughton movies?

Leslie Phillips as: Alistair Grigg
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1959
Prepare for Six of the Best as the Carry On team cause chaos in the school yard. When a well-loved headmaster decides to retire, his scheming pupils have other ideas. The cunning boys unleash a campaign of practical jokes, armed with gin, itching power and bombs!

Leslie Phillips as: Reg
Genre: Drama
Release: 2009
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Elizabeth Spriggs movies?

Leslie Phillips as: Girl (uncredited)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1938
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

Leslie Phillips as: Sir Gerald Wren
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Release: 1957
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.

Leslie Phillips as: Himself
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Release: 2004
Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Richard Pryor movies?

Leslie Phillips as: Woolburton
Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Release: 1997
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Edward Fox movies?

Leslie Phillips as: Mr. Arundell
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Release: 1990
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Adrian Rawlins movies?

Leslie Phillips as: Jack Bell
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1959
Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!

Leslie Phillips as: P.C. Tom Potter
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1960
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sergeant Wilkins will be transferred. Sub-plots include romances between Wilkins and Moon, Constable and Passworthy.

Leslie Phillips as: Harry
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1951
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Leslie Phillips as: Controller
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Release: 1952
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

Leslie Phillips as: Vicar Gerald Perey
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Release: 2000
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Dean Lennox Kelly movies?

Leslie Phillips as: Ian
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2006
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Richard Griffiths movies?

Leslie Phillips as: Robin Carter
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1957
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.

Leslie Phillips as: Boy
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Music
Release: 1939
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko.

Leslie Phillips as: Boy Doffing Cap at Parade
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, History
Release: 1939
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Alex Jennings movies?

Leslie Phillips as: Urchin in Bagdad Market (uncredited)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Release: 1940
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.

Leslie Phillips as: Sir Joseph
Genre: History, Romance, Drama
Release: 1985
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Meryl Streep movies?

Leslie Phillips as: Maxton
Genre: Drama, History, War
Release: 1987
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Joe Pantoliano movies?

Leslie Phillips as: RAF Officer Mac
Genre: War, Action, Drama
Release: 1962
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Rod Steiger movies?

Leslie Phillips as: The Sorting Hat (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2002
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Chris Rankin movies?

Leslie Phillips as: The Sorting Hat (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2001
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.

Leslie Phillips as: The Sorting Hat (voice)
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Release: 2011
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.