William Phipps' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Probe Miles Smano… Temple Houston Sandy Dale Cimarron City Rand Scoville Rescue 8 Jim Mike Sugarfoot Bob Hoyt Tombstone Territory Neal Weaton Broken Arrow Summerfield City Detective Robert Five Fingers Trumbull Sara (1976) Claude Bars… Boone Uncle Link Decision Leslie Hend… Dundee and the Culhane Turpin Johnny Ringo Paul Connell Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Tony Kermit Suspicion Vavick The DuPont Show of the Week William 'Wh… The Lone Wolf Steve deLacey The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse Rick Cleary

Main Movie Roles 1988 - Messenger Of Death 1964 - The Evil of Frankenstein 1957 - The Brothers Rico 1956 - Lust for Life 1956 - The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 1955 - Rage at Dawn 1954 - Riot in Cell Block 11 1954 - Executive Suite 1953 - The Twonky 1953 - The War of the Worlds 1953 - The Blue Gardenia 1953 - Cat-Women of the Moon 1953 - Julius Caesar 1953 - Invaders from Mars 1951 - Five 1950 - Cinderella 1949 - The Man on the Eiffel Tower 1949 - Scene of the Crime 1949 - They Live By Night 1948 - Station West 1947 - Crossfire

BIOGRAPHY:

In the early days of 1950s science-fiction, one of the first people to become identified with the genre was actor William Phipps. Aside from furnishing the voice of Prince Charming in Disney's cartoon classic Cinderella (1950), Phipps also hid his boyish face beneath a beard as the star of Arch Oboler's end-of-the-world melodrama Five (1951); made a token appearance in Oboler's The Twonky (1953); encountered Martians in both Invaders from Mars (1953) and The War of the Worlds (1953); and took on the Abominable Snowman as one of the leads in The Snow Creature (1954). Most notoriously, he even grappled with Moon maidens set on world conquest in the almost indescribable Cat-Women of the Moon (1953). Phipps was born in Vincennes, Indiana, and grew up in St. Francisville, Illinois; he knew from boyhood that he was destined to be an actor and appeared in several plays in grade school and at Eastern Illinois University. Hitchhiking to Hollywood in 1941, he worked on the stage and later in films, beginning with RKO's Crossfire (1947). Over the next 60 years he amassed a long list of film and TV credits; he also did commercials and voiceover work, including the narration for the special 190-minute TV version of David Lynch (I)'s Dune (1984).


TRIVIA:

• Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Attack of the Monster Movie Makers" (McFarland & Co., 1994).
• Served in the Navy for three years during World War II.