Phil Rose is an English

England

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 actor born in Manchester

Manchester

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, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 on 2 May 1952.

Early Days

In 1975 Phil set off upon an acting career and trained at the Birmingham Theatre School with the famous Mary Richards and Eileen Knight.
Phil's fellow students in 1975 and 1976 included Toyah Willcox

Toyah Willcox

Toyah Ann Willcox is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years Toyah has had 13 top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, as well as voicing and presenting numerous television shows...

, Kenneth Hadley, Dona Croll

Doña Croll

Doña Croll is a Jamaican-born British actress. She is best known for her British soap opera roles as Pearl McHugh in Family Affairs and more recently as Vera Corrigan in the BBC soap, Doctors....

, Ian Clarke, Gill Coleman, Peter O'Dwyer, Nigel Harris, Christopher Cookson, Carl Haughland.

Theatre

He quickly established himself as solid theatre actor playing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and The Gangster in Kiss Me Kate at Bristol Old Vic. Numerous touring appearances followed including the Ludlow Festival, Dundee Repertory Theatre and Colwyn Bay.
In the West End Phil appeared as Durdles in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Through the 1980's and 90's Rose devoted his time mainly to touring theatre productions.
In 1996, in a company that he co founded with Ian Dickens

Ian Dickens

Ian Dickens is a former actor and is currently a theatrical producer and director, the founder of Ian Dickens Productions....

, Phil appeared in a touring production of There's a Girl in my soup

There's a Girl in My Soup

‎ There's a Girl in My Soup is a 1970 British comedy film, directed by Roy Boulting and starring Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn. Sellers appears as Robert Danvers, a vain, womanizing and wealthy host of a high-profile cooking show...

 with Jack Smethurst

Jack Smethurst

Jack Smethurst is an English TV and film comic actor whose career dates back to the 1950s.-Career:Smethurst made his film debut in 1958's Carry On Sergeant...

, Deborah McAndrew and Tony Scannel

Tony Scannell

Tony Scannell is an actor whose best-known role is probably DS Ted Roach in ITV’s The Bill. His debut in the show was on 23 October 1984, in an episode called A Friend in Need....

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Pantomime

Every year Phil is well known for appearing in pantomime as the Dame and has more than 20 years experience of this.

Television

Phil is perhaps best known for his role as Friar Tuck

Friar Tuck

Friar Tuck is a companion to Robin Hood in the legends about that character. He is a common character in modern Robin Hood stories, which depict him as a jovial friar and one of Robin's Merry Men. The figure of Tuck was common in the May Games festivals of England and Scotland during the 15th...

 in the 1980s TV series Robin of Sherwood

Robin of Sherwood

Robin of Sherwood , was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel...

. He also played the part of a doctor from the regional health authority the 1984 BBC nuclear-war drama Threads

Threads

Threads is a British television drama produced by the BBC in 1984. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, it is a documentary-style account of a nuclear war and its effects on the city of Sheffield in northern England....

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In 2007, Rose played science-fiction writer A.K. 'Bunny' Cheesewight in the second story in BBC7's Scarifyers

The Scarifyers

The Scarifyers is an audio adventure series produced by Cosmic Hobo Productions and based on stories written by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris. Set in 1936 and 1937, it follows the exploits of DI Lionheart and ghost-story writer Professor Dunning, as played by Nicholas Courtney and Terry Molloy.Each...

 series, The Devil of Denge Marsh. He reprised the role in 2010's The Secret Weapon of Doom.
Over the years Phil has appeared in Minder, Gaskin, Jemima Shore Investigates and well as a spell in Eastenders.

Film

In 1984, Phil appeared with Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter...

playing his nephew in the movie Memed my Hawk.

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