Editing Leslie Phillips (section)

==Personal life, illness and death==
Phillips married his first wife, actress Penelope Bartley (1925–1981), on 30 May 1948.<ref name="autogenerated2006">{{cite book|last = Phillips|first=Lesley|title = ''"Hello", The Autobiography''|publisher =Orion Books Ltd|year=2006|isbn=978-0-7528-8178-2}}</ref> The couple had four children.<ref name="CBE"/> In 1962, Phillips began a relationship with actress [[Caroline Mortimer]], daughter of writer [[Penelope Mortimer]] and stepdaughter of [[John Mortimer]], who was an understudy in a stage play in which Phillips starred. Phillips and Bartley separated at that point and were divorced in 1965.<ref name="autogenerated2006"/>

After his relationship with Mortimer ended, Phillips embarked on a relationship with Australian actress Vicki Luke,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://imdb.com/name/nm0525626/bio|title=Vicki Luke|publisher=IMDb}}</ref> with whom he lived for approximately three years.

Phillips moved in with actress [[Angela Scoular]] in 1977, at which time she was pregnant by another actor. He raised her son as his own.<ref name="Scoular"/> While on tour in Australia in 1981, he was notified that Bartley had died in a fire. Phillips chose to continue in the production and did not attend her funeral. He later acknowledged that his family had never forgiven him for this decision.<ref name="autogenerated2006"/>

Phillips married Scoular in 1982. In 1992 Scoular, who suffered from [[bipolar disorder]], [[Suicide attempt|attempted suicide]] but was not [[Involuntary commitment|sectioned]].<ref name="Scoular">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8448951/Angela-Scoular.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8448951/Angela-Scoular.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Angela Scoular obituary|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=22 April 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Scoular died on 11 April 2011 after drinking a [[Acid|corrosive]] [[chemical drain cleaner|drain cleaner]] and suffering unsurvivable 40% burns to her throat, body and dietary tract. She had suffered from [[bowel cancer]] and although was later declared cancer-free, she became anxious that the cancer had returned.<ref name="Inquest"/> Phillips was too ill to attend the inquest into Scoular's death three months later. The [[coroner]] ruled that Scoular's death was not suicide, but rather that she had "killed herself while the balance of her mind was disturbed".<ref name="Inquest">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14218733 |title=Bond actress Angela Scoular died drinking acid cleaner |publisher=BBC News |date=20 July 2011 |access-date=9 June 2012}}</ref>

Phillips received the [[Freedom of the City of London]] on 16 November 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=Veteran Actor Leslie Phillips {{as written|Rec|ives [sic]}} The Freedom of the City of London |url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/veteran-actor-leslie-phillips-receives-the-freedom-of-the-news-photo/106906165 |website=Getty Images |date=16 November 2010 |access-date=9 November 2022}}</ref> Phillips was a supporter of [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]], and made an appearance as part of the half-time entertainment during the team's home match against [[Swansea City A.F.C.|Swansea City]] on 1 April 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/9173901/Tottenham-Hotspur-3-Swansea-City-1-match-report.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/9173901/Tottenham-Hotspur-3-Swansea-City-1-match-report.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Tottenham Hotspur 3 Swansea City 1: Match Report|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=22 April 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

On 20 December 2013, at the age of 89, Phillips married his third wife, Zara Carr.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10533373/Leslie-Phillips-marries-third-wife-at-89.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10533373/Leslie-Phillips-marries-third-wife-at-89.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Leslie Phillips marries third wife at 89 |work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London |date=22 December 2013 |access-date=11 April 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Phillips suffered two [[stroke]]s six months apart at the age of 90.<ref>{{cite news|title=Leslie Phillips: Carry On and Harry Potter star dies aged 98 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63557414|publisher=BBC News|date=8 November 2022}}</ref> After a long illness, he died in his sleep at home in London on 7 November 2022, aged 98.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Leslie Phillips, star of the Carry On films, dies 'peacefully in his sleep' aged 98 |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/2022/11/08/leslie-phillips-star-of-the-carry-on-films-dies-peacefully-in-his-sleep-aged-98/ |access-date=2022-11-19 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref><ref name="RTÉ">{{Cite web |date=8 November 2022 |title=Harry Potter and Carry On star Leslie Phillips dies aged 98 |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2022/1108/1333876-harry-potter-and-carry-on-star-leslie-phillips-dies/ |access-date=8 November 2022 |website=[[RTÉ]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/movies/leslie-phillips-dead.html|title = Leslie Phillips, 98, British Comic Actor And Sagacious Object in 'Harry Potter'|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|last = Genzlinger|first = Neil|date = 10 November 2022|access-date = 10 November 2022|page = B12|url-access = limited}}</ref>