Leslie Phillips, who voiced the Sorting Hat in the HarryPotter franchise, has died at age 98.
Over the course of his lengthy career, Phillips starred in over 200 films and television shows. He got his big break in the 1957, and rose to fame in the U.K.
two years later thanks to a starring role on the long-running radio seriesfilms, and helped establish the tone of the over-the-top, goofy film franchise.and decided to move onto more serious roles. “I felt I was in a bit of a rut,” he recalled, per the BBC. “It wasn’t necessarily a bad rut, and some people might actually want to be in that particular rut, but I wanted to get out.”
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