Antony and Cleopatra

Reach for the Sky

Moby Dick

Who Done It?

The Ladykillers

Cast a Dark Shadow

John and Julie

Isn't Life Wonderful!

Forbidden Cargo

Hobson's Choice

Mogambo

Innocents in Paris

Monsoon

Mandy

Angels One Five

Appointment with Venus

The Elusive Pimpernel

Boys in Brown

The Spider and the Fly

Passport to Pimlico

Trottie True

Don't Ever Leave Me

The Blue Lagoon

Scott of the Antarctic

Nightbeat

Philip Stainton (9 April 1908 – 1 August 1961) was an English actor. Stainton appeared in several Ealing comedies and major international movies. He specialized in playing friendly or exasperated uniformed policemen, but also appeared  in other comic and straight roles in British and Australian productions.
After beginning in repertory, in the postwar years he worked steadily in bit and featured parts in theatrical films; twice being directed by John Ford and once by John Huston when they shot on European or overseas locations. He first visited Australia as part of a touring company presenting Agatha Christie’s play  Witness for the Prosecution.

Stainton and his actress wife immigrated to Australia in the late 1950s to appear in a series of live television plays as the medium was beginning in that country. From 1957 to 1959 he had the distinction to headline the first Australian sitcom Take That which was broadcast in Melbourne by HSV-7.
He also adapted and produced a version of the gaslight melodrama East Lynne which became a hit around the circuit of surviving music hall venues in the early 1960s and was subsequently revived. During a centenary performance at impresario George Miller's Bowl Music Hall (basement of The Capitol, Melbourne), he succumbed to a heart attack on 1 August 1961.

Philip Stainton