Phillips Holmes: Phillips Holmes. Actor: Men Must Fight. A future in movies for this fair-haired, fresh-faced young adult of the 1930s was by no means certain at the time of his untimely death in a mid-air plane collision. Hints of the All-American leading man promise Phillips Holmes managed to convey during the early to mid decade, particularly in the film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser 's novel An American Tragedy (1931), had faded...
Known For: Men Must Fight (Bob Seward), Night Court (Mike Thomas), Great Expectations (Pip), Man to Man (Michael Bolton(as Phillip Holmes))