BrucePhillips
- Actor
- Writer
Bruce Phillips’ long stage career encompasses six acting awards, directing, and a “brilliantly funny” starring role as Uncle Vanya. On-screen, his CV runs to more than 30 roles, including playing fighter pilot Richard Dalgleish on TV series Country GP, a womanising dentist on Roger Hall comedy Neighbourhood Watch, and Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer in 1994 miniseries Fallout.
Screenography
Biography
Bruce Phillips is a veteran of stage, radio and screen. His theatre work spans five decades and over 100 plays, including starring roles in Hamlet, M. Butterfly and Uncle Vanya. His run of awards includes a Chapman Tripp award for playing English mathematician Alan Turing in Breaking the Code (1990). Starting from his time at Wellington's Downstage Theatre, Phillips has also written a number of scripts — including for 60s era TV series Peppermint Twist, hit soap Gloss and for radio.
“At primary school he appeared as a variety of characters — frogs, carol boys, chickens, couriers — probably conjured to life from the pages of the school journals.”