Philip Stone, the youngest of four sons was born in
Kirkstall, Leeds on April 14 1924, his family name was Stones, but
decided to shorten it to Stone on entering the
acting profession. 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 and took a job at Jonas
Woodhead
& Sons, an engineering company based in Leeds. Philip
later 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 & Sons. 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'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).
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 some of the above information in a lovely letter
and the image for this page.
