William Edward Phipps as Reporter Carl Phillips - Ray Harryhausen's The War of the Worlds (1954) Fan Cast | myCast.io
William Edward Phipps
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William Edward Phipps (February 4, 1922 – June 1, 2018) was an American actor and producer, sometimes credited simply as William Phipps, perhaps best known for his roles in dozens of classic sci-fi and westerns, both in films and on television.
This is my poster for the unmade Ray Harryhausen movie of H.G. Wells' the War of the Worlds. He'd planed to make this movie in the 1950s at Paramount Pictures, who owned the film rights to Wells' novel, but couldn't raise enughe money to finase the film. Harryhausen would go on to do special effect for the 1956 alien invasion movie Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and would later go on to adapt another H.G. Wells story, First Men in the Moon in 1964. But he never gave up on his dream of making War of the Worlds some day.
