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| Philip
Stone was born at Kirkstall, Leeds on April 14 1924, his family name was Stones,
but he later dropped the 's' when he entered the acting profession, Philip
was the youngest of four sons. Philip Stone made his theatre debut in The Sleeping
Clergyman in London's West End |
Philip
Stone was born at Kirkstall, Leeds on April 14 1924, his family name was Stones,
but he later dropped the 's' when he
entered the acting profession, Philip was the youngest of four sons. Philip's
father, together with other members of the Stones family formed an amateur concert
party called The Musical Stones, with whom Philip performed as a young
boy. Philip left school
at the age of 14, he took a job at Jonas Woodhead & Sons, a local engineering
company, and went on
to serve in the R.A.F. in the latter part of the 1939 - 1945 world war.
Philip
Stone made his theatre debut in The Sleeping Clergyman in London's West
End, at the Criterion Theatre in 1947. Unfortunately Philip contracted T.B. later
in that year, and after several years of treatment he quit acting and returned
to work at Jonas Woodhead. It was in 1953 that Philip was asked to direct an amateur
production at the Leeds Arts Centre and in the cast he met his future wife Margaret
Pickard.
Margaret
persuaded Philip to resume his professional acting career and his appearance in
the series Top Secret with William
Franklyn in 1962 marked Philip's return to the acting profession. In
the episode of Top Secret entitled The Second Man, Philip
plays a doctor, and he recalls it took about a week to film his role. Philip and
William Franklyn were friends and played cricket together. Philip recalls "I
worked for A.R. (Associated-Rediffusion) quite a lot at the time - the odd episode
of 'No Hiding Place' - a chief of police I think!" He continues "My
main job with A.R. was to feature regularly from Oct ' 65 to Jan ' 67 in 'The
Rat Catchers' with Gerald Flood & Glynn Owen, I played the Brigadier - the
head of the operation - of course! a very nice job - we filmed in Europe."
Philip
Stone also appears in episodes of other top British television shows, including:
The Saint, The Avengers, Z Cars, Armchair Theatre,
Coronation Street and Softly, Softly. Also a prolific actor
in the theatre, Philip has performed in numerous productions in his career, these
include: Loot, Troilus and Cressida, The Man with a Flower in
His Mouth (which he also directed) and The Royal Baccarat Scandal. Philip
Stone also formed his own production Company - Philip Stone Productions.
Philip
Stone's first film for Stanley Kubrick
Philip's
film career includes: Carry on Loving (1975), It Shouldn't Happen to
a Vet (1975) and The Medusa Touch (1978), but the work of which he
was most proud are the three consecutive films he made for director Stanley Kubrick:
A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975) and The Shining
(1980).
We
were saddened to hear that Philip passed-away shortly after helping us with the
above information in a lovely letter and the image for this page.
