Philip Bartlett

Philip Bartlett grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, and began his acting career while he was still in high school at various community playhouses in the area. At age 20, when he heard the movie, Brubaker, was being filmed in a small Ohio town, he camped out in the hotel lobby where the film people were staying and talked the producers into a part as an extra. They reportedly liked that Philip looked like "a starving prisoner". He eventually was given a line in the movie as the Young Reporter at the end of the film. He followed the film crew to Chicago to work on Blues Brothers, where he was an extra and the lighting stand-in for Dan Akroyd. When the Blues Brothers crew went to Hollywood to finish the filming, Philip went with them. While in Los Angeles, Philip worked as an extra in both television and film. Philip eventually moved to New York City, taking classes at NYU and continuing to work in the industry. An opportunity with a film company in Paris presented itself, and Philip moved to France. It was there that he was discovered behind the camera of the casting director of Sam Suffit. After a day of filming auditions for the part of Peter, the casting director finally asked Philip to audition, and he got the lead male role in the movie. Promotional work for Sam Suffit took Philip to Tokyo, where he lived for more than a year doing modeling and commercial work. In 1998, Philip retired from acting and moved back to his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.