Talk:Bertram Phillips

Biographical Details

There are very few biographical details online for Bertram Phillips. He's listed in the 1921 Census as being 48 years 1 month old (so born circa May 1873) with an occupation of "Director Of Cinematograph Film Production". He recorded his place of birth as "Regents Park, London" but crossed that out and wrote Marylebone instead. He's listed as "married" but the only other person in the house was a housekeeper.

It may be that he is listed in the 1939 Register with a date of birth of 1 June 1872. If so, he was a widower and no longer working in the film industry. Instead, he was working as a "librarian" and living in the house of William Edmund Simkin in the Willesden area of London.

He died aged 69 with the death registered Q1 1942 Paddington, London. Kinematograph Weekly (2 April 1942) contained a couple of paragraphs reporting his death:

Many old players and studio workers were sad to hear last week of the passing of Bertram Phillips, a member of the staff of Butcher's, who 25 years ago established a reputation by directing for the Holmfirth Company a series of sporting features based upon Nat Gould stories.

In 1923 he produced for B. P. Pictures, a company which he had formed, "The School for Scandal," which Butchers released. Later he directed some of the early de Forest sound films, and proceeded to New York to the American studios of the de Forest organisation. Failing health, however, frustrated his plans and restricted his activities.

~2025-40868-81 (talk) 13:43, 15 December 2025 (UTC)