Phil Tead
Bio: Alternately billed as Phil Tead and Philips Tead, this slight, jug-eared character actor could easily have been taken for a young Walter Brennan (indeed, he has been in some film histories). After playing newspaperman Wilson in the 1931 version of The Front Page, he was thereafter typecast as a nosy reporter. He also portrayed several fast-talking radio… More Bio: Alternately billed as Phil Tead and Philips Tead, this slight, jug-eared character actor could easily have been taken for a young Walter Brennan (indeed, he has been in some film histories). After playing newspaperman Wilson in the 1931 version of The Front Page, he was thereafter typecast as a nosy reporter. He also portrayed several fast-talking radio commentators, most memorably in the Marx Brothers' Horse Feathers (1932) and Harold Lloyd's The Milky Way (1936). Adopting a doddering comic quaintness in the 1950s, Phil Tead was occasionally seen as the absent-minded Professor Pepperwinkle on TV's Superman series. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Phil Tead Videos
The Thin Man
Goodbye, My Fancy
Susan And God
The Great Ziegfeld
Filmography
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Fangs of the Wild (1954)
- Mac
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Kansas City Confidential (The Secret Four) (1952)
- Collins
- 80%
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The Unknown Man (1951)
- Attendant
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Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)
- Reporter
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Act of Violence (1949)
- Clerk
- 90%
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