Robert Phillips obit

Actor Robert Phillips Has Died 

He was not on the list.

Phillips was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was a self-defense instructor while serving in the United States Marine Corps, during World War II and later played football for the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins. Phillips was also a police officer in the Los Angeles Police Department and Illinois State Police. He was a personal bodyguard for the 31st Governor of Illinois, Adlai Stevenson II. Phillips began his film and television career in the 1950s, in which a film producer told him to become an actor.

Phillips attended an acting school. He retired from being a police officer in 1963. In his film and television career, Phillips was preferred as a "tough guy", for which he was frequently hired by studios to appear in Lee Marvin's films in Hollywood, California, including The Killers (1964) and Cat Ballou (1965). He also appeared in two films with actor Richard Jaeckel: The Gun Runners (1958) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). His other film roles included appearances in Dimension 5 (1966), Hour of the Gun (1967), Mackenna's Gold (1969), Slaughter (1972), The Slams (1973), I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973), The Dion Brothers (1974), Capone (1975, as Bugs Moran), Mitchell (1975), Mean Johnny Barrows (1975), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Walking Tall: Final Chapter (1977). Phillips also guest-starred in numerous television programs including Star Trek: The Original Series (in the episode "The Cage"), Gunsmoke, The Rockford Files, Bonanza, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Wild Wild West, Rawhide, Mission: Impossible, The High Chaparral, Mannix, The Fall Guy and Planet of the Apes.[ His last credit was for the western television series Bordertown.

 

Filmography

 

Year     Title            Role            Notes

1953    Code Two            Henchman            Uncredited

1958    The Gun Runners            Outlaw            Uncredited

1962    Hell Is for Heroes            Jeep driver  

1964    The Killers  George Fleming           

1965    Cat Ballou   Klem            Uncredited

1966    The Silencers            1st Armed Man     

1966            Dimension 5     George

1967    The Dirty Dozen            Corporal Morgan        

1967    Hour of the Gun            Frank Stilwell

1969            Mackenna's Gold            Monkey         

1970    Darker than Amber            Griff    

1972            Slaughter         Frank  

1973    The Student Teachers                     

1973    Detroit 9000    Captain Chalmers         

1973    The Slams   Cohalt 

1973    I Escaped from Devil's Island            Blassier           

1974    The Dion Brothers            Gino    

1975    Capone            Bugs Moran 

1975    Mitchell            Chief Albert Pallin     

1975    Mean Johnny Barrows            Ben     

1975    Adios Amigo  Notary

1976    The Killing of a Chinese Bookie            Phil      

1977    The Car      Metcalf

1977            Walking Tall: Final Chapter            Johnny 

1977    Telefon            Highway Patrolman #1

1984    Delta Pi            Pud     

1987    Cry Freedom            Speaker at Funeral      

1997    A Time to Revenge            Billy Two Feathers            (final film role)