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Betty Phillips
Acting

Betty Phillips
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1917-06-12,Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Gender
Female
Biography
In her mid-teens she sang leading roles in musicals at Richmond High School and also sang in a girls' choir organized by Burton Kurth; in the early 1940s she studied voice with in turn Mignon Duke Gidy, Avis Phillips, and Phylis Inglis and piano with Phyllis Schuldt. She appeared at TUTS for the first time in a 1946 production of Robin Hood and subsequently played leads in more than 20 TUTS productions until 1960; she is best remembered for the role of Mrs. Anna in The King and I. Phillips' radio career began in 1948 with a CBC Vancouver light classical series and has included regular appearances 1953-65 on the CBC's 'Leicester Square to Broadway'; variety work in 1955 on the BBC; solo, recital, and folksong performances on the CBC; and many British Columbia school broadcasts 1970-2. On CBC TV she sang Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus in 1954, co-starred 1956-7 with Ernie Prentice on 'Lolly-too-dum,' and was hostess 1965-7 for 'Bazaar.' Phillips has performed at the Vancouver International Festival and with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and has appeared in Vancouver Opera productions (Flora in La Traviata, 1961; Nicklausse in Tales of Hoffmann, 1961; Clotilde in Norma, 1963; Vera Boronell in The Consul, 1964; Zulma in The Italian Girl in Algiers, 1965; and the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, 1966). She has performed in musical comedy throughout Canada - on tour (1967) with One Hundred Years of Musical Comedy, at the 1968 and 1969 Charlottetown Festival; in Anne of Green Gables and Johnny Belinda, and at Winnipeg's Rainbow Stage in Fiddler on the Roof (1971). She sang locally in Theatre-in-the-Park productions of The Sound of Music (1974) and Fiddler on the Roof (1975), while studying 1972-6 at the University of British Columbia. As an actress she has played many roles at Bastion Theatre, Victoria, and the Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, and has also appeared at Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon and at Citadel Theatre, Edmonton. In the first Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Co season (1963) she appeared as Madame Dubonnet in The Boy Friend and has continued to act for that company over the years. She has been in over 40 Canadian and US movies, some of them feature films and the others made for television. In 1962, Phillips married the actor, writer, and librettist Peter Haworth, who has collaborated with Leonard Wilson, Healey Willan, and the English composer Robert Simpson.

Filmography

5.8

2012
2009-10-10

7.4

Nobody's Child
1986-04-05

Showdown at Williams Creek

6.2

Showdown at Williams Creek
1991-10-31

I Love You Perfect

0

I Love You Perfect
1989-10-08

6.4

Short Time
1990-05-04

And the Sea Will Tell

6.438

And the Sea Will Tell
1991-02-24

The Three Wishes of Billy Grier

5

The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
1984-10-31

Bratz: Super Babyz

6.3

Bratz: Super Babyz
2007-10-09

Bratz Babyz Save Christmas

7

Bratz Babyz Save Christmas
2008-11-05

I Was a Teenage Faust

5.5

I Was a Teenage Faust
2002-06-01

6.6

Housekeeping
1987-11-25

5.1

Intersection
1994-01-21

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

5.199

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010-07-29

The Secret Lives of Second Wives

3

The Secret Lives of Second Wives
2008-06-28

Jack Reed: One of Our Own

4.9

Jack Reed: One of Our Own
1995-04-25

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

6.645

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2011-03-25

6.5

Shame
1992-08-18

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

6.2

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
1995-11-03

7.2

The Dead Zone
2002-06-16

7.109

21 Jump Street
1987-04-12

The Adventures of the Black Stallion

6.3

The Adventures of the Black Stallion
1992-01-05

5.7

The Collector
2004-06-02

6

So Weird
1999-01-18

7.125

The Commish
1991-09-28

7.7

MacGyver
1985-09-29

7.7

Millennium
1996-10-25

The New Addams Family

7.2

The New Addams Family
1998-10-19

The Outer Limits

7.7

The Outer Limits
1995-03-26

7.109

21 Jump Street
1987-04-12

7.2

The Odyssey
1992-03-09

7.7

MacGyver
1985-09-29