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Last missing Navy Lark episode recovered
The last completely missing episode of long-running radio sitcom The Navy Lark has been recovered. However, other editions still only survive in inferior and cut forms.
British Comedy Guide, 18th January 2023Leslie Phillips obituary
Revered actor and a master of comedy.
Robert Sellers, The Independent, 13th November 2022Leslie Phillips dies aged 98
Comic actor and screen icon Leslie Phillips has died at the age of 98.
British Comedy Guide, 8th November 2022Leslie Phillips obituary: The comedy Casanova who made it to Hogwarts
Leslie Phillips, who has died aged 98, will forever be remembered for playing a lecherous old rake.
BBC, 8th November 2022Leslie Phillips: master of raffish comedy and immortal catchphrases
He punched Gene Kelly in Hollywood and played Falstaff at the RSC, but he will be best remembered as a posh, blazer-wearing cad in films and on TV - and for an innuendo-laden greeting.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 8th November 2022Leslie Phillips: a life in pictures
The much loved comedy actor has died at the age of 98. Best known for playing suave upper-class cads, his exaggerated "Hello" and "Ding Dong" entered the lexicon. Here we look back at his life.
Greg Whitmore, The Guardian, 8th November 2022Leslie Phillips obituary
Veteran stage and screen actor known for his roles in the Carry On films, the Doctor series and voicing the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter.
Michael Coveney, The Guardian, 8th November 2022Leslie Phillips, as sexually threatening as a pot of tepid tea, made the common man feel better
The Carry On star's charming on-screen persona as a hopeless and harmless lothario cheered men up about about their own sexual shortcomings.
Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 8th November 2022Leslie Phillips was fruity... but so are cherries soaked in brandy
Leslie Phillips spoke almost exclusively in wolf whistles. With just a long-drawled 'Hel-lo', he could convey surprise, appreciation, flirtation and a hint of sexual menace.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 8th November 2022Carry On Columbus: failed attempt to revive the series
Carry On Columbus started filming less than six months before it was released - and it'd be the movie that brought down the curtain on the series.
Simon Brew, Film Stories, 8th July 2021