R.I.P. Former WMA Agent Phil Kellogg

COMMENTS (9)

• He was a true gentleman. A star in his day in show business, but a star every day to his family and friends….

  Comment by H. G. Sloan — Wednesday February 8, 2012 @ 5:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• Phil was a great guy and a class act. I loved hearing his stories. He will be truly missed by his friends and family.

  Comment by Russ — Wednesday February 8, 2012 @ 8:23pm PST  Reply to this post

• Phil Kellogg was a dear, dear friend and a great guy.

  I spent a great many hours discussing the industry and getting wonderful insight from him. He introduced me to some remarkable individuals in the business, including Alan Ladd, Jr., with whom he worked late in his career. And I mean very late in his career… he was pushing ninety when we met one beastly hot day on the Paramount lot.

  They called him “Gentleman Phil” when he ran the picture dept. at William Morris for a reason. I never heard him badmouth anyone. That’s an amazing accomplishment for anyone out here.

  Comment by chris darling — Thursday February 9, 2012 @ 1:19am PST  Reply to this post

• He outlived my Mother by fifteen years. She was his assistant for nearly a decade in the ’50s at William Morris. An agent living longer than their assistant…it would be funny if that were a precedent…likely, it isn’t…

  Comment by Ken Newman — Saturday February 11, 2012 @ 4:55pm PST  Reply to this post

• My father’s college roomate. My son’s godfather. My husband’s close friend. A true family friend for a very long time. Phil was always the gentleman agent – loved by all -

  Comment by Carol Dudley Katzka — Tuesday February 14, 2012 @ 6:51am PST  Reply to this post

• I met Phil and his wonderful wife Anna almost 4 years ago when I was lucky enough to move next door to them on Benedict Canyon. We became fast friends and shared wine and stories weekly. Phil had such presence and in my mind is the best story teller of all time! Some of my personal favorites were the time they went of vacation with the Gregory Peck family, when Audrey Hepburn thew them an engagement party in Switzerland and that Zsa Zsa Gabor had given them their favorite dogs. Of all the stories the thing Phil liked to talk about most was his beautiful wife Anna and how he couldn’t of accomplished most of the wonderful things in his life without her. They have been a huge inspiration in my life and became my “grandparents” in LA. Someday I look forward to sharing a love as strong as theirs. Phil was such a gentleman and loved easily by all.

  Comment by Anonymous — Thursday March 1, 2012 @ 4:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• We became fast friends and shared wine and stories weekly.

  Comment by young — Wednesday March 28, 2012 @ 11:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Phil and Anna hosted my wife and I for thanksgiving some 20 years ago. They didnt know us, but we’re friends of my father in law. We were alone in California and missing home. They treated us like family, and I will never forget their kindness.

  Comment by Marcus underwood — Monday May 14, 2012 @ 8:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I just heard the news. My deepest condolences to Anna, and his children.

  Phil was my partner on Year of the Comet, Sea Kings, and Beach Music. I was blessed to have worked with him and the world was blessed by his presence, wit, intelligence, and love. I still laugh at some of the humorous antidotes from his days at William Morris.

  I have never seen a greater love than Phil had for Anna and his family?

  Sidney Pollack told me he jogged past their house when he heard David Lean was staying with Phil and Anna, and quietly, and oh, by accident, asked if he could join them. So many of his stories, I hold close to my heart.

  Goodbye Phil. The world has lost a great person.

  Comment by Alan Brown — Friday July 6, 2012 @ 6:50am PDT  Reply to this post