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{{short description|American actor}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = William Phipps
| image = William Phipps in Rage at Dawn.jpg
| caption = Phipps in ''[[Rage at Dawn]]'' (1955)
| birth_name = William Edward Phipps
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|2|4}}
| birth_place = [[Vincennes, Indiana]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|6|1|1922|2|4}}
| death_place = [[Santa Monica, California]], U.S.
| resting_place = [[Valley Oaks Memorial Park]]
| occupation = Actor, film producer
| years active = 1947–2000
| alma_mater = [[Eastern Illinois University]]
}}

'''William Edward Phipps''' (February 4, 1922 – June 1, 2018) was an American actor and producer, sometimes credited simply as '''William Phipps''', known for his roles in films and on television.

==Early years==

===Hometown===
Phipps grew up in [[St. Francisville, Illinois]]. His parents divorced when he was six years old. By the time he was in high school, he was using his stepfather's last name of Couch. He developed a love of acting at a young age and performed in several plays in grade school and high school. One of the plays in which he performed, during his junior year of high school in 1937, was ''Before Morning'', a 1933 play made into a film that same year.<ref name="Play">{{cite web|url=https://m.facebook.com/album.php?aid=105505&id=94888871978|title=Before Morning|publisher=William Phipps' Facebook page|date=May 6, 2009|access-date=October 7, 2014}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=March 2020}}

===College===
After graduating from high school in 1939, he attended [[Eastern Illinois University]] in [[Charleston, Illinois]], where he majored in accounting, was elected freshman class president and served as head cheerleader. After two years of college, he moved to Hollywood, to pursue a career in acting and resumed his original last name of Phipps.<ref name="Phipps">{{cite web|url=http://www.robdailynews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&ArticleID=9630|title=Area man has led a 'charmed' Hollywood life|work=Daily News|date=January 27, 2012|access-date=October 7, 2014}}</ref>

===World War II===
{{Unreferenced section|date=June 2023}}
During that same year, the United States entered into [[World War II]], and Phipps enlisted in the [[United States Navy]], serving as a radio operator on several ships all across the [[Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II|Pacific]]. He served three years, then settled in Los Angeles to begin his career. He enrolled in the [[Actors' Lab]] in Hollywood, alongside fellow actor [[Russell Johnson]].

===Hollywood===
Phipps' big break came when he and Johnson were double-cast in a play at the Actors Lab. They drew straws to see which actor would perform in the [[wikt:matinée|matinée]], and which would take the evening show. Phipps drew the evening show, which was attended that same evening by actor [[Charles Laughton]]. Laughton was impressed by Phipps' performance, and came backstage afterwards to ask Phipps to perform in Laughton's own play. Phipps' career took off, and he was soon in his first feature film, ''[[Crossfire (film)|Crossfire]]'' (1947).{{Citation needed |date=June 2023}} In 1949, Phipps auditioned for the speaking voice of Prince Charming in the upcoming [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] film ''[[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]]''. The studio was pleased with his performance and Phipps was offered the part by Walt Disney himself.

In 1959 he guest starred as "Ken Wills" a cheated card player in ''[[Bat Masterson (TV series)|Bat Masterson]]'', teaming up with the star to clean out a town of crooked poker dealers in the episode "License To Cheat" (S1E17).

In 1962 he guest starred on the TV Western ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' as weak husband “Ham” in S7E33's “The Prisoner”.

==Hawaii==
After nearly thirty years in the business, performing in film and television in a wide variety of roles, Phipps took a break from Hollywood and moved to [[Hawaii]].<ref name="Bill">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esCnTSqGtUYC&q=tom+weaver+bill+phipps&pg=PA249 |title=Double Feature Creature Attack| publisher=McFarland|date=February 19, 2003|isbn=9780786482153|access-date=October 7, 2014}}</ref> While there, he hosted a movie presentation program called "Hollywood Oldies", on Maui's Cable 7.<ref name="Maui">{{cite web|url=https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=426134216978&set=a.94891741978.105274.94888871978&type=3&permPage=1 |title=Hollywood Oldies|publisher=William Phipps' Facebook page|date=May 29, 2010|access-date=October 7, 2014}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=March 2020}}
After a little more than five years in Hawaii, he returned to Hollywood to portray President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] in the 1976 television movie ''[[Eleanor and Franklin (miniseries)|Eleanor and Franklin]]''.

==Retirement and post-career==
Phipps' last movie role was in the 2000 independent film ''[[Sordid Lives]]'', in which he also served as one of the film's producers. In 2005, several of Phipps' films were the subject of an EIU (Eastern Illinois University) film festival in his honor. He received an [[honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] from the university the following year.<ref name="Honourary">{{cite web|url=http://castle.eiu.edu/evff/phipps.html|title=William Phipps|publisher=Embarras Valley Film Festival, 2005|access-date=October 7, 2014}}</ref>

== Death ==
Phipps died on June 1, 2018, in [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]], [[California]], at the age of 96 from lung cancer. He is buried in [[Valley Oaks Memorial Park]].<ref name="obit">{{cite web|url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/westlake-village-ca/william-phipps-7871335|title=OBITUARY - William Edward Phipps FEBRUARY 4, 1922 – JUNE 1, 2018|access-date=2019-05-08}}</ref><ref>[https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/westlake-village-ca/william-phipps-7871335 William Edward Phipps]</ref>

==Filmography==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Year
!style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Title
!style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Role
!style="background:#B0C4DE;"|Notes
|-
|rowspan=1|1947
|''[[Crossfire (film)|Crossfire]]''
|Leroy
|
|-
|rowspan=6|1948
|''[[The Arizona Ranger]]''
|Ranger Mac
|
|-
|''[[Train to Alcatraz]]''
|Tommy Callahan
|
|-
|''[[They Live by Night]]''
|Young Farmer
|
|-
|''[[Station West]]''
|Sergeant
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Desperadoes of Dodge City]]''
|Ted Loring
|
|-
|''[[Belle Starr's Daughter]]''
|Yuma Talbott
|
|-
|rowspan=1|1949
|''[[Scene of the Crime (1949 film)|Scene of the Crime]]''
|Young Gun Owner
|Uncredited
|-
|rowspan=6|1950
|''[[The Man on the Eiffel Tower]]''
|Janvier
|
|-
|''[[Key to the City (film)|Key to the City]]''
|Reporter
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Cinderella (1950 film)|Cinderella]]''
|Prince Charming
|Voice
|-
|''[[The Outriders]]''
|Young Union Guard
|
|-
|''[[Rider from Tucson]]''
|Bud Thurber
|
|-
|''[[Rider from Tucson]]''
|Tug Bailey
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1951
|''[[Five (1951 film)|Five]]''
|Michael
|
|-
|''[[No Questions Asked (film)|No Questions Asked]]''
|Roger
|
|-
|''[[The Red Badge of Courage (1951 film)|The Red Badge of Courage]]''
|Officer
|Uncredited
|-
|rowspan=4|1952
|''[[Rose of Cimarron (film)|Rose of Cimarron]]''
|Jeb Dawley
|
|-
|''[[Fort Osage (film)|Fort Osage]]''
|Nathan Goodspeed
|
|-
|''[[Loan Shark (film)|Loan Shark]]''
|Ed Haines
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Flat Top (film)|Flat Top]]''
|Red Kelley
|
|-
|rowspan=10|1953
|''[[The Blue Gardenia]]''
|Lt. George Foster
|Voice, Uncredited
|-
|''[[The War of the Worlds (1953 film)|The War of the Worlds]]''
|Wash Perry
|
|-
|''[[Invaders from Mars (1953 film)|Invaders from Mars]]''
|Sgt. Baker
|
|-
|''[[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|Julius Caesar]]''
|Servant to Antony
|
|-
|''[[Savage Frontier (film)|Savage Frontier]]''
|Johnny Webb
|
|-
|''[[The Twonky]]''
|Student
|
|-
|''[[Northern Patrol (film)|Northern Patrol]]''
|Frank Stevens
|
|-
|''[[Fort Algiers]]''
|Lt. Gerrier
|
|-
|''[[Cat-Women of the Moon]]''
|Douglas 'Doug' Smith
|
|-
|''[[Red River Shore]]''
|Ned Barlow
|
|-
|rowspan=7|1954
|''[[Riot in Cell Block 11]]''
|Mickey
|
|-
|''[[Executive Suite]]''
|Bill Lundeen
|
|-
|''[[Jesse James vs. the Daltons]]''
|Bill Dalton
|
|-
|''[[Francis Joins the WACS]]''
|Jeep driver
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Two Guns and a Badge]]''
|Dick Grant - Rancher
|
|-
|''[[The Snow Creature]]''
|Lieutenant Dunbar
|
|-
|''[[The Violent Men]]''
|Bud Hinkleman
|Uncredited
|-
|rowspan=6|1955
|''[[Rage at Dawn]]''
|Bill Peterson Jr.
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Smoke Signal (film)|Smoke Signal]]''
|Pvt. Porter
|
|-
|''[[The Eternal Sea]]''
|Legless Sailor
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[The Far Horizons]]''
|Oarsman / Camp Sentry
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Lord of the Jungle (film)|Lord of the Jungle]]''
|Kenny Balou
|
|-
|''[[The Indian Fighter]]''
|Lt. Blake
|
|-
|rowspan=8|1956
|''[[The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit]]''
|Army Sergeant
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Great Day in the Morning]]''
|Ralston
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[The First Texan]]''
|Lt. Jack LeBlanc
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Away All Boats]]''
|Ship Machinist
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[The Boss (1956 film)|The Boss]]''
|Stitch
|
|-
|''[[Lust for Life (1956 film)|Lust for Life]]''
|Emile Bernard
|
|-
|''[[The Desperados Are in Town]]''
|Bit Man at Cotton Gin
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[The Wild Party (1956 film)|The Wild Party]]''
|Wino
|
|-
|rowspan=4|1957
|''[[Badlands of Montana]]''
|Walt Branton
|
|-
|''[[The Brothers Rico]]''
|Joe Wesson
|
|-
|''[[Kiss Them for Me (film)|Kiss Them for Me]]''
|Lt. Al Hendricks
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Escape from Red Rock]]''
|Arky Shanks
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1958
|''[[The Day of the Trumpet]]''
|Pvt. Steve Haines
|
|-
|''[[The Walter Winchell File]]''
|Stony Jones
|Episode: "David & Goliath"
|-
|''Man on the Run''
|Jay
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1959
|''[[The FBI Story]]''
|Baby Face Nelson
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Gunsmoke]]''
|Lou
|Episode: "The Coward"
|-
|''[[The Rifleman]]''
|Asa Manning
|Episode: "The Money Gun"
|-
| rowspan="3" |1962
|''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]''
|Jack Wheeler
|Episode: "Impasse"
|-
|''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour''
|The bartender
|Episode: "Hangover"
|-
|''[[Black Gold (1962 film)|Black Gold]]''
|Albert Mailer
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1963
|''[[Showdown (1963 film)|Showdown]]''
|Deputy
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Gunsmoke]]''
|Joe Stark
|Episode: "Carter Caper"
|-
|rowspan=1|1964
|''[[The Evil of Frankenstein]]''
|Rena's Father
|additional sequence: US, Uncredited
|-
|rowspan=2|1965
|''[[Harlow (Paramount film)|Harlow]]''
|Reporter
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Combat!]]''
|Pvt. Barnhill
|Episode: "The Old Men"
|-
|rowspan=4|1966
|''[[Incident at Phantom Hill]]''
|Trader
|
|-
|''[[The Green Hornet (TV Series)|The Green Hornet]]''
|Jack Starkey
|Episode: "May the Best Man Lose"
|-
|''[[Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round]]''
|Kleiner
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Not with My Wife, You Don't!]]''
|Sergeant
|Uncredited
|-
|rowspan=1|1967
|''[[Gunfight in Abilene]]''
|Frank Norton
|
|-
|rowspan=1|1978
|''[[Space Force (TV pilot)|Space Force]]''
|Commander Irving Hinkley
|
|-
|rowspan=1|1983
|''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]''
|Barney Benson
|Episode: "Big Brothers Duke"
|-
|rowspan=1|1984
|''[[Dune (1984 film)|Dune]]''
|Narrator
|TV version, Uncredited
|-
|rowspan=1|1988
|''[[Messenger of Death]]''
|Doc Turner
|
|-
|rowspan=1|1993
|''[[Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey]]''
|Quentin
|
|-
|rowspan=1|2000
|''[[Sordid Lives]]''
|Rev Barnes
|(final film role)
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{IMDb name}}
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* {{TCMDb name|152007}}
* {{Find a Grave}}
*[https://www.facebook.com/billphippsfanpage William Edward "Bill" Phipps fan page at Facebook]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=esCnTSqGtUYC&dq=tom+weaver+bill+phipps&pg=PA249 Interview with William Phipps in Tom Weaver's book "Double Feature Creature Attack", at Google Books]

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