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![]() ![]() Above left: Lee Philips on the set of "A Girl named Daisy" (03/27/1959) episode of TV series The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen. Above right: Candid photo of Lee Philips showing his daughter Julie (ca.1960) On Aug 14. 1960 another daughter Julie Amanda was born just as his career shifted towards directing, with credits ranging from the television series of Peyton Place to The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961). Occasionally he still did some acting, in 1963 he appeared in "Never Wave Goodbye", a two-part episode of The Fugitive. Also in 1963, he played a lead role in "Passage on the Lady Anne", an hour-long episode of The Twilight Zone; he returned to the show the following year in the episode "Queen of the Nile", where he plays a reporter named Jordan 'Jordy' Herrick. ![]() ![]() Above left: Lee Philips as Dr. Ray Brooks in The Fugitive episode "Never Wave Goodbye" airdate, Oct 8. 1963. Above right: In the Twilight Zone episode "Queen of the Nile" we see Lee opposite Ann Blyth (1964). He appeared in Flipper in 1964 and also made two guest appearances on Perry Mason in 1965: as Kevin Lawrence in "The Case of the Golden Venom," and murderer Gordon Evans in "The Case of the Fatal Fortune." Also guest starred on the Combat!: episode: "A Walk with an Eagle". Let's not forget The Andy Griffith Show for which he directed a whopping 60 episodes (1965-1968). Philips joined the durable M*A*S*H (1972) where he remained for several years and again directed Farrell, who played one of the series' irreverent Army surgeons on the front lines in the Korean War. In 1973 he directed The Girl Most Likely to... starring Stockard Channing. Other series of which Philips directed episodes included The Waltons, The Practice, The American Girls, Salvage 1, Lottery!. For the 1972-73 Emmy for Director of a Drama Series for a Single Program he was nominated the The Waltons episode "The Love Story". ![]() ![]() Above left: Lee Philips as George in "Double Trouble" (1969) an episode from The Ghost & Mrs. Muir. Above right: Whilst directing it Lee Philips did a cameo as Minister on "Shivaree", an episode from the Waltons (1975). On Dec 31. 1980, Lee and Barbara were divorced ending a 24 year long marriage. Philips also directed dozens of television movies and such miniseries as Sidney Sheldon's Windmills of the Gods in 1988 and James A. Michener's Space in 1985. Among his made-for-TV movies were Silent Movie, Barnum, American Geisha, Samson and Delilah, Mae West, Wanted: The Sundance Woman and Louis Armstrong--Chicago Style. More recently he directed Dick Van Dyke on several episodes of Diagnosis: Murder (1995). Philips died in his Brentwood home from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) just past his 72nd birthday on March 3. 1999. |
![]() (1) Wikipedia (2) IMDb (3) IBDB (4) Radiogoldindex (5) IOBDB Additional video & audio sources (1) The Twilight Zone: “Queen of the Nile” (2) 12 Angry Men - Original Live TV Version 1954 (Full version) (3) The Ghost & Mrs Muir - Season2_04 - Double Trouble |
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