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William Phillips is a Actor, Director, Writer and Post Production Supervisor born on 1 june 1908
William Phillips is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a bachelor of science, Phillips studied film at Ryerson University. Phillips then ran a film production company entitled Grandview Products and worked on the second-unit of the film Cube. After directing two short films, Milkman and Deep Cut, Phillips wrote and directed his first feature film in 2001, Treed Murray. The film earned five Genie Awards nominations including Best Motion Picture. Williams has since directed two more major Canadian films, Foolproof and Gunless.
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William Phillips
Birth 1 june 1908
Death 27 june 1957 (at 49 years)
Death 27 june 1957 (at 49 years)
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Filmography of William Phillips (5 films)
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Stagecoach To Fury (1956)
, 1h15Directed by William F. Claxton
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Forrest Tucker, Mari Blanchard, Wallace Ford, Paul Fix, Leslie Banning, Wright King
Roles Harold
Rating59%
A stagecoach with a mixed group of passenger en route to the town of Fury makes a stop at a layover. Upon arrival the passengers are held up by Lorenzo Garcia and his gang of bandidos capture and disarm the passengers, shooting one when he stops to raise his fallen trousers when he puts his hands up. The two staff of the coaching stop are missing presumed murdered. Garcia questions former Army captain Frank Townsend, now riding shotgun on the stagecoach on the location of the Federal Government gold shipment they expected to be carried by the stagecoach. After Garcia shoots and wounds Tim O'Connor the driver to encourage information, Townsend reveals that the stagecoach was to remain at the layover until a wagon containing the gold shipment would arrive and transfer the cargo to the stage.
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Gunless (2010)
, 1h29Directed by William Phillips
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory, Dustin Milligan, Callum Keith Rennie, Graham Greene, Tyler Mane
Rating63%
In 1878 a hardened American gunfighter arrives in a small town in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, a place that doesn't understand or appreciate the brutal code of the American Wild West.
Foolproof (2003)
, 1h34Directed by William Phillips
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Ryan Reynolds, David Suchet, Kristin Booth, Joris Jarsky, James Allodi, Anthony J. Mifsud
Rating63%
The movie starts with Kevin (played by Reynolds), Sam (Booth) and Rob (Jarsky) playing a game, known as "Foolproof", in which they create working plans to infiltrate and burgle various targets. They do not actually execute these heists, preferring to simply simulate them. The rules of the game include the three of them to have the necessary technical and physical abilities to carry out the tasks required for the heist, and they cannot use a loaded gun.
Treed Murray (2001)
, 1h30Directed by William Phillips
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors David Hewlett, Aaron Ashmore, Kevin Duhaney, Carter Hayden, Julian Richings
Rating71%
During a routine walk home, advertising executive Murray (David Hewlett) runs into Carter (Kevin Duhaney), a would-be mugger. After a struggle, Murray strikes Carter in the face with his briefcase and proceeds to walk away. Murray notices that the mugger is part of a small gang, which begins to chase him. Fearing for his life, he climbs a tree to evade capture, but finds himself unable to leave when the gang decides to wait for him to come down.
Scriptwriter
Gunless (2010)
, 1h29Directed by William Phillips
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory, Dustin Milligan, Callum Keith Rennie, Graham Greene, Tyler Mane
Roles Writer
Rating63%
In 1878 a hardened American gunfighter arrives in a small town in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, a place that doesn't understand or appreciate the brutal code of the American Wild West.
Foolproof (2003)
, 1h34Directed by William Phillips
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Ryan Reynolds, David Suchet, Kristin Booth, Joris Jarsky, James Allodi, Anthony J. Mifsud
Roles Writer
Rating63%
The movie starts with Kevin (played by Reynolds), Sam (Booth) and Rob (Jarsky) playing a game, known as "Foolproof", in which they create working plans to infiltrate and burgle various targets. They do not actually execute these heists, preferring to simply simulate them. The rules of the game include the three of them to have the necessary technical and physical abilities to carry out the tasks required for the heist, and they cannot use a loaded gun.
Treed Murray (2001)
, 1h30Directed by William Phillips
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors David Hewlett, Aaron Ashmore, Kevin Duhaney, Carter Hayden, Julian Richings
Roles Writer
Rating71%
During a routine walk home, advertising executive Murray (David Hewlett) runs into Carter (Kevin Duhaney), a would-be mugger. After a struggle, Murray strikes Carter in the face with his briefcase and proceeds to walk away. Murray notices that the mugger is part of a small gang, which begins to chase him. Fearing for his life, he climbs a tree to evade capture, but finds himself unable to leave when the gang decides to wait for him to come down.
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Cube (1998)
, 1h30Directed by Vincenzo Natali
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about mathematics, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Nicole de Boer, David Hewlett, Nicky Guadagni, Andrew Miller, Julian Richings, Wayne Robson
Roles Post Production Supervisor
Rating70%
A man named Alderson awakens in a cube-shaped room with a hatch in each wall, the ceiling and the floor, each of which leads to other cube-shaped rooms, identical except for their color. He enters an orange room and, without warning, is killed by a trap. In another such room, five people – Quentin, Worth, Holloway, Rennes, and Leaven – meet. None of them knows where they are or how they got there. Quentin informs the others that some rooms contain traps, which he learned by nearly being killed by one. Rennes assumes each trap is triggered by a motion detector and tests each room by throwing one of his boots in first. Leaven notices numbers inscribed in the passageways between rooms. Quentin, a policeman, recognizes Rennes as "the Wren", an escape artist renowned for getting out of jails. After declaring one room trap-free, Rennes enters and is killed when he is sprayed with acid. The others realize that there are different kinds of detectors, and Quentin deduces that this trap was triggered by heat.