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Robin Phillips is a Actor, Stage Director and Set Designer British born on 28 february 1942 at Haslemere (United-kingdom)
Robin Phillips (28 February 1940 – 25 July 2015) was an English actor and film director.
He was born in Haslemere, Surrey in 1940 to Ellen Anne (née Barfoot) and James William Phillips. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic, where a contemporary was Patrick Stewart, and worked as an actor and director for many years in the United Kingdom, finishing as artistic director at the Greenwich Theatre from 1973–75.
He was hired as artistic director at the Stratford Festival in Canada in 1975, where he spent six seasons directing many productions and cultivating new talent. Such actors as Maggie Smith, Richard Monette, Martha Henry, and Brian Bedford, among others, were prominently featured during his tenure, and many of his Shakespearean, classical, and contemporary productions won widespread acclaim. When he resigned from Stratford during the 1980 season, exhaustion was cited as the primary reason for his departure. He would later become artistic director at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario and return to Stratford to direct the Young Company in 1987–88. He was also director general at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton from 1990–95.
He directed a musical version of Jekyll & Hyde (1997) on Broadway (winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for his contribution to the scenic design); Long Day's Journey into Night in London's West End in 2000; and a stage version of Larry's Party at Canadian Stage and the National Arts Centre in 2001.
In 2010, Phillips received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.
Phillips died in his sleep on 25 July 2015 after a prolonged illness. He was survived by a younger sister, Hilary, and by his partner, Joe Mandel, who he first met in 1962 but who became his partner in 1971.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 28 february 1942 at Haslemere (United-kingdom)
Death 25 july 2015 (at 73 years)
Birth 28 february 1942 at Haslemere (United-kingdom)
Death 25 july 2015 (at 73 years)
He was born in Haslemere, Surrey in 1940 to Ellen Anne (née Barfoot) and James William Phillips. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic, where a contemporary was Patrick Stewart, and worked as an actor and director for many years in the United Kingdom, finishing as artistic director at the Greenwich Theatre from 1973–75.
He was hired as artistic director at the Stratford Festival in Canada in 1975, where he spent six seasons directing many productions and cultivating new talent. Such actors as Maggie Smith, Richard Monette, Martha Henry, and Brian Bedford, among others, were prominently featured during his tenure, and many of his Shakespearean, classical, and contemporary productions won widespread acclaim. When he resigned from Stratford during the 1980 season, exhaustion was cited as the primary reason for his departure. He would later become artistic director at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario and return to Stratford to direct the Young Company in 1987–88. He was also director general at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton from 1990–95.
He directed a musical version of Jekyll & Hyde (1997) on Broadway (winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for his contribution to the scenic design); Long Day's Journey into Night in London's West End in 2000; and a stage version of Larry's Party at Canadian Stage and the National Arts Centre in 2001.
In 2010, Phillips received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.
Phillips died in his sleep on 25 July 2015 after a prolonged illness. He was survived by a younger sister, Hilary, and by his partner, Joe Mandel, who he first met in 1962 but who became his partner in 1971.
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Tales from the Crypt (1972)
, 1h32Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Zombie films, Comedy horror films
Actors Ralph Richardson, Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice, Richard Greene, Ian Hendry
Roles James Elliot
Rating68%
Five strangers go with a tourist group to view old catacombs. They do not realise that they are all dead. Separated from the main group, they find themselves in a room with the mysterious Crypt Keeper (Ralph Richardson), who details how each of the strangers have died.
David Copperfield (1969)
, 1h58Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Robin Phillips, Richard Attenborough, Ralph Richardson, Ron Moody, Cyril Cusack, Laurence Olivier
Roles David Copperfield
Rating58%
Charles Dickens' Immortal Story of a Young Man's Journey to Maturity. This version finds David Copperfield (Robin Phillips) as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach. In flashback, David remembers his life in 19th century England, as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school. He relives his struggle to overcome the loss of his idyllic childhood and the torment inflicted by his hated step-father after his mother’s death. Then virtually abandoned on the streets of Victorian London, David Copperfield is flung into manhood and contends bravely with the perils of big-city corruption and vice; hardships which ultimately fuel his triumph as a talented and successful writer.
Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969)
, 1h45Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robin Phillips, Judy Geeson, Rachel Kempson, Hilary Dwyer, Esther Anderson, Norman Rossington
Roles Roddy Pater
Rating65%
, 1h53Directed by John Krish
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Robin Phillips, Colin Blakely, Michael Elwyn, Kenneth Griffith, Donald Wolfit, Leo McKern
Roles Paul Pennyfeather
Rating56%
Paul Pennyfeather is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself expelled after a gang of drunken freshmen remove his pants and he is accused of exposing himself to a girl. Looking for work, he retains the services of an unsavory employment agency that secures a position for him at a sleazy Welsh boarding school for boys, presided over by the colorful Dr. Fagan. On staff at the school are an assortment of distasteful screwballs; Mr. Prendergast (Robert Harris) is a withdrawn former clergyman; Captain Grimes is a one-legged two-timer with his eye on Fagan's daughter, Flossie; and Soloman Philbrick is an undercover criminal posing as Fagan's butler.
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Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical (2001)
, 2h15Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors David Hasselhoff, Barrie Ingham, George Merritt, John Treacy Egan, Brandi Chavonne Massey, Kelli O'Hara
Roles Stage Director
Rating63%
Version musicale de l'histoire de Robert Louis Stevenson au sujet d'un médecin, le Dr. Henry Jekyll, qui effectue une expérience sur lui-même qui a pour conséquence l'émergence du côté sombre, meurtrier de son moi intérieur, «Mr. Hyde».
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Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical (2001)
, 2h15Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors David Hasselhoff, Barrie Ingham, George Merritt, John Treacy Egan, Brandi Chavonne Massey, Kelli O'Hara
Roles Set Designer
Rating63%
Version musicale de l'histoire de Robert Louis Stevenson au sujet d'un médecin, le Dr. Henry Jekyll, qui effectue une expérience sur lui-même qui a pour conséquence l'émergence du côté sombre, meurtrier de son moi intérieur, «Mr. Hyde».