Phillips Holmes

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Phillips Raymond Holmes July 22 1907 August 12 1942 was an American actor In 1928 Holmes was spotted in the undergraduate crowd at Princeton University during the filming of Frank Tuttles Varsity 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 Sternbergs An American Tragedy At Paramount Holmes starred in melodrama and comedy In 1933 his Paramount contract ran out and he moved to MGM for one year As the decade progressed his career declined and he appeared in a few boxoffice failures including Sam Goldwyns poorly received Nana 1934 His last American movie was General Spanky 1936 In 1938 Holmes appeared in two UK movies Housemaster was his last film Then he returned to acting on stage in the United States At the start of World War II Holmes joined the Royal Canadian Air Force He was killed in a midair collision in northwest Ontario Canada in 1942 For his contributions to the film industry Phillips Holmes was posthumously given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960