ACTOR

Leslie Phillips

1924 - 2022

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Leslie Samuel Phillips (20 April 1924 – 7 November 2022) was an English actor. He achieved prominence in the 1950s, playing smooth, upper-class comic roles utilising his "Ding dong" and "Hello" catchphrases. He appeared in the Carry On and Doctor in the House film series as well as the long-running BBC radio comedy series The Navy Lark. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leslie Phillips has received more than 3,019,983 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Leslie Phillips is the 2,761st most popular actor (up from 4,736th in 2019), the 2,423rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,685th in 2019) and the 335th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Leslie Phillips ranks 2,761 out of 13,578Before him are Siegfried Rauch, Lesley Ann Warren, Tony Todd, Celeste Holm, Tomas Arana, and Victor Wong. After him are Gila Almagor, Delroy Lindo, Paulette Dubost, Kristanna Loken, Leila Abashidze, and Marga López.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Leslie Phillips ranks 217Before him are Juan Carlos González, Basil Bernstein, Anne Vernon, J. J. Johnson, Vilgot Sjöman, and Viktor Astafyev. After him are Marga López, Olivier Gendebien, Klaus Huber, Mike Bongiorno, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, and Martha Hyer. Among people deceased in 2022, Leslie Phillips ranks 225Before him are Sven-Bertil Taube, Jüri Tarmak, Nino Cerruti, Zofia Posmysz, Francisco Álvarez Martínez, and Mustafa Dağıstanlı. After him are Arno, Kazuki Takahashi, Chaim Kanievsky, Fatma Girik, Susana Dosamantes, and Manny Charlton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leslie Phillips ranks 2,423 out of 8,785Before him are Ian Richardson (1934), Vera Brittain (1893), Nobby Stiles (1942), Cædwalla of Wessex (659), Terry-Thomas (1911), and Alfred Fowler (1868). After him are Delroy Lindo (1952), Edwin Lutyens (1869), Richard Cobden (1804), William Hope Hodgson (1877), Pete Burns (1959), and Charles Lamb (1775).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Leslie Phillips ranks 335Before him are Tania Mallet (1941), Damian Lewis (1971), Nicholas Clay (1946), Luke Evans (1979), Ian Richardson (1934), and Terry-Thomas (1911). After him are Delroy Lindo (1952), Richard Bremmer (1953), John Shrapnel (1942), John Callen (1946), Sally Hawkins (1976), and Eric Porter (1928).

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