Leslie Phillips dies aged 98

I saw this in our local Melbourne funeral announcements. He must have lived here. If it is the same person the funeral will be held on Monday 10.30 am at Springvale . Pretty sure it would be him because the person was 92, exactly the same name. I didn’t know he was an Aussie. Funny because I very rarely look at those announcements, maybe once every 3 or 4 months .

I looked again and I think it is a different person as this one was a Leslie Stewart Phillips. How strange, they both died on the same day.

nanna8 Lesley Phillips the recently deceased actor, was born, lived andd died in London.

What you have seen locally is a remarkable coincidence, but nothing else. Lesley was a popular boys name about the period they were both born and 'Phillips' is a not uncommon surname.

With Lord Luccan and now Lesley Phillips, Australia is becomong the doppelganger capital of the world.

He was once married to Angela Scoular, an actress quite a lot younger.

Not sure if they divorced or if she died.

Calendargirl Both hs first and second wife pre-deceased him. Angela Scoular was his second wife.

I was thinking Lord Lucan would be getting on a bit now. The other one that was supposed have come here was John Stonehouse. Not to mention Ronnie Biggs who actually did come here before leaving his wife and moving to South America.

Funnily enough, John Bingham (Lucan) disappeared 48 years ago yesterday.
There was a front page article in the Mail on Sunday about three cluedo cards which were found in his car (why it’s come out now, one no idea - I’m sorry I didn’t read it).
The cards were Colonel Mustard, the lead piping and the hall.
Lucan would be 88 next month.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lord-lucan-cluedo-cards-murder-b2218213.html?amp

The Daily Mail article I posted has everything you want to know about Leslie Phillips' life, and numerous wonderful photographs. He lost two wives tragically.

I always found him creepy, even back in the day, I think he probably contributed to the assumption in the 60/70s that men could make veiled comments to women and they would like them.

I was a teenager in the 1960s and never found him creepy at all, just very funny. I knew he was playing for laughs and didn't take it seriously. What men thought of him I have no idea, but I suppose anything you see could be taken one way or another. There are much worse things on the screen that could give people ideas.

He was playing up to a stereotype that paid. He really wanted to be a serious actor and in later life performed with the Royal Shakespeare company in Shakespeare and Chekov.

But an actor is like any other professional or skilled person, they follow the branch of their profession that pays and his brand of 'lechery' which was of the kind that went with men who were all talk and no action, obviously paid better than ny thing else. Had any woman taken it seriously your wouldn't have seen his character for dust and small stones.

M0nica I disagree.
Many men are talk AND action.

Yes, hollysteers many men, the majority, are talk and action, but some aren't and I made it clear that this was the group I was referring to, not all men.