Phillips Holmes

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Phillips Holmes (1907-1942)

Son of actors Taylor Holmes and Edna Phillips, Phillips Holmes—his unusual first name was his mother's surname—was born in Grand Rapids, MI. A well-educated young man who made a couple of bit appearances in films featuring his father, and then director Frank Tuttle found Holmes at Princeton and cast him in Varsity (1928), earning the young actor a contract with Paramount. His first couple of yea...