A future in movies for this fair-haired, fresh-faced young adult of the 1930s was by no means certain at the time of his untimely death in a mid-air plane collision. Hints of the All-American leading man promise Phillips Holmes managed to convey during the early to mid decade, particularly in the film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser 's novel An ...
In December 1941 was inducted into the RCAF in Toronto. In 1942 was assigned to the Initial Training School in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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His funeral mass was held on Tuesday August 18, 1942 at St Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
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Brother of actress Madeleine Taylor Holmes.
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Appeared on stage once with his father Taylor Holmes as a boy in the play "The Great Necker".
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Has a Hollywood Star on the Walk of Fame.
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He was a leading aircraftman with the Royal Canadian Air Force at the time of his death. He was buried at Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York.
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