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5 unusual facts about Leslie Phillips


Andrea Allan

This included the Carry On films, Carry on Spying and Carry on Cowboy, as well as The Wrong Box with Dudley Moore, Spanish Fly with Leslie Phillips and Vampira with David Niven.

Caroline Mortimer

In the 1960s she had a relationship with the married actor Leslie Phillips.

Oozlum bird

Sub Lieutenant Phillips (Leslie Phillips) suggested that when young, oozlum birds fly straight, and it is only when they turn left that the trouble starts.

Peggy Cummins

Cummins's last film, in 1961, was Darcy Conyers's In the Doghouse alongside Leslie Phillips.

The Chap

The magazine regularly features an interview conducted by Michael Attree with previous interviewees such as Stephen Fry, Leslie Phillips, Sir Patrick Moore, Alan Moore and Joanna Lumley appearing.


British comedy

Other actors associated with British comedy films include Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Dame Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl and Leslie Phillips.

Inn for Trouble

Inn for Trouble is a 1960 British comedy film - a movie spin-off of the 1950s sitcom The Larkins - starring Peggy Mount, David Kossoff and Leslie Phillips.

The Man Who Liked Funerals

The Man Who Liked Funerals is a 1959 British comedy film starring Leslie Phillips, Susan Beaumont and Bill Fraser.

Three Men in a Boat

The BBC has broadcast on radio a number of dramatizations of the story, including a musical version in 1962 starring Kenneth Horne, Leslie Phillips and Hubert Gregg, a three-episode version in 2012 with Jeremy Nicholas playing all of the characters and a two-part adaptation for Classic Serial in 2013 with Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt and Julian Rhind-Tutt


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