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Phil Morris (actor)

Phil Morris (born 1959, Iowa City, Iowa) is an American actor, son of Greg Morris; known as Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld, Grant Collier in the 1988-90 Mission: Impossible revival, and the voice of Vandal Savage and Doc Saturday.

Phil of the Future

Phil of the Future is a Disney Channel sitcom (2004–2006, 43 episodes, created by Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber) about the Diffy family from 2121 stranded in 2004 after a time machine malfunction, starring Ricky Ullman, Alyson Michalka, Amy Bruckner, Craig Anton, and Lise Simms.

Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers (Philip Silver, 1911–1985), American comedian nicknamed the King of Chutzpah, starred as con-man Master Sergeant Ernie Bilko on CBS's The Phil Silvers Show (1955–1959), winning two Emmys and two Tonys.

Phil Tippett

Phil Tippett (born 1951, Berkeley) is an Oscar-winning visual effects artist and stop-motion animator, co-developer of go motion at ILM for Star Wars, founder of Tippett Studio (Jurassic Park dinosaurs), and director of Mad God; his Berkeley studio closed in 2026 after bankruptcy.

Phil Wang

Phil Wang (Philip Nathaniel Sin Goi Wang, born 1990) is a British-Malaysian stand-up comedian, Cambridge Footlights president, Taskmaster series 7 contestant, and author of Sidesplitter, with Netflix specials Philly Philly Wang Wang and Wang in There, Baby!.

Philadelphia (film)

Philadelphia (1993), Jonathan Demme's legal drama written by Ron Nyswaner, stars Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett, a lawyer with AIDS suing his firm, with Denzel Washington; first major Hollywood AIDS film, two Oscars, National Film Registry 2025.

Philip Baker Hall

Philip Baker Hall (1931-2022), American character actor born in Toledo, Ohio; played Lt. Bookman on Seinfeld, Richard Nixon in Secret Honor, and leads in Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia.

Philip Berk

Philip W. Berk, born 1933 in Cape Town, South African-born American entertainment journalist, longest-serving Hollywood Foreign Press Association president, Golden Globes figure, expelled from the HFPA in April 2021 over a Black Lives Matter email.

Philip Bosco

Philip Bosco, full name Philip Michael Bosco, was an American stage actor who appeared in about 50 Broadway productions and won the 1989 Tony Award for Lend Me a Tenor.

Philip Bretherton

Philip Bretherton (born 1955, Lancashire), English actor best known as Alistair Deacon in As Time Goes By with Judi Dench; extensive British TV credits, stage work including Tony Benn in Tony's Last Tape, and voiceover work.

Philip Carey

Philip Carey (Eugene Joseph Carey, 1925-2009), American actor of westerns and war films, star of TV's Laredo and Philip Marlowe, best known as Asa Buchanan on One Life to Live from 1979.

Philip Glenister

Philip Glenister (born 1963, Harrow, London) is an English actor famous as DCI Gene Hunt in BBC's Life on Mars (2006–07) and Ashes to Ashes (2008–10); also known for Cranford, Mad Dogs, Outcast, Belgravia, and the 2025 Bergerac reboot.

Philip J. Fry

Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of Futurama, Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's animated sci-fi sitcom: a pizza delivery boy frozen December 31, 1999, who wakes 1,000 years later at Planet Express, voiced by Billy West.

Philip Jackson (actor)

Philip Jackson (born 1948, Retford, England) is an English actor best known as Chief Inspector Japp in Agatha Christie's Poirot and Abbot Hugo in Robin of Sherwood, with films including Brassed Off and Scum.

Philip Kaufman

Philip Kaufman (born 1936, Chicago) is an American film director and screenwriter of The Right Stuff, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Henry & June, and co-creator of the Raiders of the Lost Ark story; distinct from Charlie, Phil, and Moisés Kaufman.

Philip McKeon

Philip McKeon (Philip Anthony McKeon), American actor and radio personality, played Tommy Hyatt on the CBS sitcom Alice (1976–1985, 108 episodes); older brother of Nancy McKeon; later KFWB radio news and KWVH Texas host; died 2019, age 55.

Philip Michael Thomas

Philip Michael Thomas (born 1949, Columbus, Ohio) is an American actor and musician, best known as Detective Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs on NBC's Miami Vice (1984–1989, 111 episodes). Distinguishing facts: Broadway debut in No Place to Be Somebody (1971), starred in Sparkle (1976), pursued an EGOT, voiced Lance Vance in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Philip Mosley

Philip Mosley is an English ballet dancer and administrator for The Royal Ballet. He is known for his character roles and his inspiration for the 2000 film Billy Elliot.

Philip Ng (伍允龙)

Philip Ng (伍允龍, born 1977) is a Hong Kong-born American actor, martial artist, and action choreographer; an Ip Man-lineage Wing Chun practitioner known for Once Upon a Time in Shanghai, Birth of the Dragon, and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.

Philip Rosenthal

Philip Rosenthal, also called Phil Rosenthal, born 1960 in Queens, New York, is the American creator and showrunner of the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond and host of Netflix's food-travel series Somebody Feed Phil.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014), American film and stage actor and director; Oscar winner for Capote, three more nominations, three Tony nominations, co-founder of LAByrinth Theater Company; died February 2, 2014.

Philip Seymour Hoffman on screen and stage

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014), American actor and theater director; Oscar winner for Capote with three supporting-actor nominations, three Tony nominations, and co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company.

Philip Stone

Philip Stone (Philip Stones, 1924-2003), English character actor from Leeds; the only actor in three consecutive Stanley Kubrick films (A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining), also in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Flash Gordon.

Philip Winchester

Philip Winchester (born 1981, Belgrade, Montana) is an American actor known as Sgt. Michael Stonebridge in Strike Back and prosecutor Peter Stone in the Dick Wolf universe, trained at LAMDA.

Philippa Georgiou

Philippa Georgiou, also Emperor Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centaurius, is a Star Trek character played by Michelle Yeoh: Prime Universe USS Shenzhou captain, Mirror Universe Terran Emperor, and Section 31 operative.

Philippa Lowthorpe

Philippa Lowthorpe, British director of fact-based drama (Three Girls, Call the Midwife, Misbehaviour, H Is for Hawk); first woman to win the BAFTA TV Craft Award for Best Director: Fiction.

Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit (born 1949) is a French high-wire artist who made eight crossings on an illegally rigged cable between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers on 7 August 1974, 1,350 feet up, for about 45 minutes without a net; subject of Man on Wire and The Walk.

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (born 1963) is a French actress, star of Emily in Paris as Sylvie Grateau, Call My Agent!, and Trois hommes et un couffin, which earned her a César nomination.

Phill Jupitus

Phill Jupitus (born 1962, Newport, Isle of Wight), also Porky the Poet, English comedian, poet, broadcaster and actor; Never Mind the Buzzcocks team captain 1996, BBC 6 Music breakfast host, musicals including Hairspray.

Phill Lewis

Phill Lewis (Phillip David Lewis, born 1968, Uganda) is an American actor and TV director, best known as Mr. Moseby on Disney Channel's Suite Life series and later a prolific sitcom director.