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name: "Philip Wood"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/philip-wood"
roles: []
born: "21 July 1895"
died: "3 March 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T00:25:34.781760+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Philip Wood

Actor. Born 21 July 1895 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Died 3 March 1940.

## Details

- **Born:** 21 July 1895, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- **Died:** 3 March 1940
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939937/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1175861

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Our Town*](https://film.one/film/our-town.md) (72)

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## Biography

Philip Wood was an American actor. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he began his career on the stage and appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including *Room Service* (1937) as Simon Jenkins and *The Primrose Path* (1939).

Wood made two feature films. He played Simon Jenkins in the 1938 screen adaptation of *Room Service* and Simon Stimson in the 1940 film version of *Our Town*. He died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California, on 3 March 1940, a few months before the release of the latter.

*Sources: imdb.com, nytimes.com, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Our Town* (1940), Fi1m 72, as Simon Stimson — [page](https://film.one/film/our-town.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Our Town* (1940), as Simon Stimson — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/our-town.md)
- *Room Service* (1938), as Simon Jenkins

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