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    Lumme!

    Leslie Phillips is 95 today.

    Happy birthday, sir.

    #2
    Ding Dong!

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      #3
      I always find it quite amusing that, given his accent, he was born in Tottenham to a working class family.

      Someone else was born today, though in Braunau am Inn, but he wasn't anything like as charming as Les.

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        #4
        His first film was in 1938,his last (to date) in 2012,even if he is retired that's still a 74 year career.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post
          I always find it quite amusing that, given his accent, he was born in Tottenham to a working class family.
          The amusement value is somewhat undermined by the contraction in social mobility in recent years; I've seen Charles Dance, another patrician sounding actor from a not terribly privileged background, express strong doubts about whether he would be able to pursue the same career today.

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            #6
            Really. There seem to be plenty of working class actors on the screen. What's less likely these days is that good-looking working class men and woman would take elocution lessons and forge a career playing upper-middle class roles, though Keeley Hawes is bucking the trend.

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              #7
              Mention of Keeley Hawes reminded me that Line of Duty seems to be one of the last great bastions of working class actors: Hawes, Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure, Lennie James, Martin Compston, Stephen Graham - not a public schooler amongst 'em.

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                #8
                Happy Birthday Leslie. Probably for several years already, the only actor still alive who performed at Pinewood Studios in its first week of opening in 1936.

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                  #9
                  Excellent. He can also inherit Brucie's role in the "born before Anne Frank" reality jolt.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Benjm View Post
                    I've seen Charles Dance, another patrician sounding actor from a not terribly privileged background, express strong doubts about whether he would be able to pursue the same career today.
                    I was at art college with Charlie Dance, he sounded then just the same as he does now.

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                      #11
                      That sounds wanky. What I meant was that accent = class can be a very deceptive binary.

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