Voice of the Sorting Hat from “Harry Potter” Forever Silenced: Leslie Phillips Is Dead US Midterms Have Started – Democrats Fear Majority

British “Harry Potter” fans mourn the loss of actor Leslie Phillips. The London native, who was already making films in the 1930s and 1940s, was 98 years old. He died on November 7 after being ill for a long time, the BBC and the PA news agency reported. Phillips’ agent confirmed his death to the media.

Phillips lent his voice to the Hogwarts Sorting Hat in movies about the magician and his friends – at least in the English version. He is known to an older generation in Britain for his appearances in the comedy series “Carry On”.

He played alongside Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis

The Brit played alongside many international stars. Among them, for example, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and Klaus Maria Brandauer, who starred in “Out of Africa” ​​in the mid-1980s. Phillips also starred in The Jackal alongside Bruce Willis and Richard Gere, and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider alongside Angelina Jolie. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” was one of his last film projects in 2011.

Phillip’s wife Zara Carr has spoken out about her husband’s death. “I’ve lost a great husband and the public has lost a really great showman,” she said, according to British tabloid The Sun. Carr said fans loved him dearly and surrounded him wherever he went. She had been married to Phillips since 2013. For him it was the third marriage. In addition to his wife, he has four children with his first wife, actress Penelope Bartley.

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