Philip Hewland
actor
- Born:
- 1876-12-12, Gravesend, Kent, England, UK
- Died:
- 1953, Ealing, London, England, UK
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
December 12, 1876: the docks of Gravesend, Kent, welcomed a restless boy who would trade the Thames fog for London limelight. By 1915, Philip Hewland had stepped before the cameras as the tormented hero of “The Christian,” proving he could carry silence as eloquently as speech. Sixteen years later he slipped into 221B Baker Street, matching wits with cinema’s most cerebral detective in “Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour,” and returned to the role almost immediately for “Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Rembrandt.” Between those two outings he aged into a face audiences trusted for a moment of danger or a flicker of mischief. When the curtain finally fell in 1953, it descended in the quiet London suburb of Ealing, closing the career of a performer who had helped turn British pages into flickering shadows on screens around the world.
