![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/harry-potter-icon-who-voiced-sorting-hat-passes-away-after-long-illness/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/newspress-collage-20359203-1667907628984.jpg&description=VETERAN actor Leslie Phillips, best known for his "Ding Dong", "Well, Hello" and "I Say" catchphrases in the saucy 'Carry On' movies, has died aged 98. His death on Monday after a long illness brought down the curtain on eight decades in show business. Leslie Phillips has died aged 98Credit: PA:Press Association Leslie Phillips first appeared on the West End stage age 14 and his career closed by wooing a new generation of fans as the voice of The Sorting Hat in Harry Potter films. He starred in over 200 movies, TV and radio series over his glittering career. For 17 years he starred alongside Ronnie Barker and Jon Pertwee on hit BBC radio show 'The Navy Lark'. An accomplished Shakespearian actor, Leslie also trod the boards in stage shows around the world. But he was best known for his roles as the smooth-talking rogue with an eye for the ladies in the 'Carry On' and 'Doctor' comedy films in the 1950s and 60s. Because of those films, he became famous for his trademark caddish phrases, "LUMME', "WELL, HELLO,' "I SAY' and "DING DONG' - directed at sexy women on camera. He often joked that the chat-up lines - delivered in rich dulcet tones - would follow him to the grave and that one of those lines will probably be inscribed on his headstone. Remarkably he starred in only four of the 31 'Carry On' movies and confessed that those lecherous catchphrases had been 'a millstone around his neck'. Even his own pals christened him King Leer, after playing King Lear in a performance for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His death – nearly two years after Barbara Windsor passed away – leaves Jim Dale, 86, as the last surviving regular from the Carry On films. Leslie joined the Carry On cast after giving up a Hollywood career to be with wife, Penny Bartley and their four children who were back in England. He later revealed he loved being "idolised" by the public, he wished people would "look beyond the lecherous twit I played". Although he spoke with a plum in his mouth, Leslie Samue){kind=link}
VETERAN actor Leslie Phillips, best known for his “Ding Dong”, “Well, Hello” and “I Say” catchphrases in the saucy ‘Carry On’ movies, has died aged 98.
His death on Monday after a long illness brought down the curtain on eight decades in show business.
As well as the Carry On films, Leslie Phillips wooed a new generation of fans as the voice of The Sorting Hat in Harry Potter films.
Paying tribute, his wife Zara, 63, said: “I’ve lost a wonderful husband and the public has lost a truly great showman.
“He was quite simply a national treasure. People loved him. He was mobbed everywhere he went.