Popular Picture Personalities — Joseph Phillips (1917) 🇺🇸

Who’s Who in the Moving Picture World — Compiled by the Statistical Department

Phillips, Joseph H. Born in Providence, R. I. Portuguese-Irish parentage. Five feet seven inches tall, and weighs 180 pounds. Dark complexion, black hair, with gray temples and dark complexion.

Mr. Phillips made his stage debut in 1884, and for twenty-two years did speaking parts, fifteen of those years being spent in the support of Mattie Keene, in vaudeville, playing sketches written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. They presented her first stage offering.

In 1912 he turned to photoplay, but does not remember the title of his first picture. He has appeared with the Thanhouser, Metro, Fox and Peerless companies, and was in the cast of The Million Dollar Mystery, The Vicar of Wakefield, The Pretty Fugitive and other well known productions.

He plays general characters, and like Edward Harrigan he spends his leisure time adding to his character wardrobe. To him an old hat is more precious than an Old Master.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1917

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