Phillips Holmes
Actor

Phillips Holmes Net Worth

Phillips Holmes was 35 years old. Phillips Holmes was a talented actor born in 1907 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was the eldest of three children born to character actor Taylor Holmes and actress Edna Phillips. He attended many different schools growing up and graduated from Newman Prep School in New Jersey. He then traveled to Europe for his college education, attending Cambridge University in England and Grenoble University in France. His natural ability at athletics led to solid respect as a member of the rowing team during his college years. He eventually returned to the US and decided upon Princeton. His stage debut in the Princeton Triangle Show "Napoleon Passes" at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1927 led to his film debut with Varsity (1928). He starred in many films, including An American Tragedy (1931), Broken Lullaby (1932), Two Kinds of Women (1932), Night Court (1932), The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933), Men Must Fight (1933), Nana (1934), Caravan (1934), General Spanky (1936), The Dominant Sex (1937), and Housemaster (1938). He also participated in many plays, such as "The Petrified Forest", "Golden Boy", "The Male Animal" and "The Philadelphia Story". During WWII, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and attended the Air Ground School at Winnipeg. Unfortunately, he died in a mid-air plane collision at the age of 35 in 1942.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor
Birth Day July 22, 1907
Birth Place  Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Age 113 YEARS OLD
Died On August 12, 1942(1942-08-12) (aged 35)\nOntario, Canada
Birth Sign Leo
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge University of Grenoble Princeton University
Occupation Actor
Years active 1918-1938

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1928

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Edna Phillips and 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 Tuttle's Varsity in 1928 and offered a screen test. In the early 1930s he became a popular leading man, playing leads in a few important productions, notably in Josef von Sternberg's An American Tragedy (1931).

1933

In 1933, Holmes was driving with actor Mae Clarke when he crashed into a parked car. Clarke, who suffered a broken jaw and facial cuts, sued Holmes for US$21,500 (equivalent to $406,455 in 2017), claiming that he had been driving while drunk. Clarke dropped the suit when Holmes agreed to pay her medical expenses.

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