Phil Tead

• Born: 1894 in Somerville, Massachusetts
• Died: Jun 09, 1974
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '30s-'50s
• Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
• Career Highlights: Fangs of the Wild, Arctic Flight, Kiki
• First Major Screen Credit: Kiki (1931)

Biography

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, All Movie Guide

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