Although he was to reach the age of 98, he already felt very senior when I met him at his home in his mid-70s. He was very keen to stress that his abilities stretched beyond delivering a famous catchphrase and luring girls into an open-top sports car.Those famous roles came out in his middle years. Before that he had been a very busy child actor. Then in his 50s Phillips took the courageous decision to do no more broad comedy. There was a stomach-churning period of inactivity when he was widely presumed to have died, but the roles for nabobs, mandarins and stuffed shirts started to roll in.

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