He won the Theatre World Award for the Off Broadway musical "The Amorous Flea", was cited as best actor by the LA Free Press in John Guare's "Museeka" at the Mark Taper Forum, and received dual Grammy nominations as a member of the Firesign Theatre, who were also honored by a seminar at the Beverly Hill Museum of Television and Radio and listed as one of the "Thirty Greatest Acts of all Time" by Entertainment magazine.

On screen, he's appeared with Robert De Niro, Orson Welles, Tuesday Weld, Jack Nicholson, Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis and John Astin and on television has guest-starred on "Jag", "Men Behaving Badly", Dave's World", Nightcourt", "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", and General Hospital" to name a few, in "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle", and in the cable movies "Menno's Mind" and "Running Mates", starring Tom Selleck and Fay Dunaway.

He's voiced "Howard", the father of Phil and Lil, for eight seasons on Nickelodeon's Emmy-award winning "Rugrats", and reprised his role in "Rugrats in Paris" (a theatrical release). He's also the villainous son of the Red Skull on "Spiderman", the chief bushrat in "Taz-Mania", King Gerard on H-B's "Smurfs", and did four seasons on Fox-TV's "The TICK" and "Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego". He can be heard as the Drunken circus monkey in Eddie Murphy's "Dr. Dolittle", the scared elephant in Disney's "Tarzan", Snowball the cat in "Hercules", and as various creatures in "Toy Story 1 and 2", "A Bug's Life", "The Iron Giant", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Aladdin", "The Lion King", and "Beauty and the Beast".

He's also re-voice leads in two French films, "Little Indian, Big City" (in Russian and English) and "The Visitors", the latter directed by Mel Brooks. As a singer, he's rap master Vinnie Goomba on the Laurie Records novelty single "Rappidis", and a soloist on Disney's "Pocahontas II", and knowlegeopolis' CD "Here Come the Alpha Bets!".

Phil directed Marivaux's "Robon, Polished by Love" at the Noho Theatre Festival and Tulis Mccall in here one-woman play "Truth Be Told" at the Court in West Hollywood. He and his wife, Melinda Peterson, are both members of the Antaeus Company, and have appeared together in Gilbert and Sullivan's "Trial by Jury", "Patience" and the Dramalogue-award-winning production "New England" at the South Coast Rep.

On Radio, they have performed in Norman Corwin's NPR specials, Yuri Rassovsky's "Y2K Science-Fiction Series" and in the L.A. Theatreworkds update of "State of the Union" starring Linday Crouse.

Phil was Guest of Honor at the 33rd Annual Minicon Science Fiction Convention, Emceed the Invision Awards in San Francisco and hosted in French the prestigious Milia Interactive Awards on the stage of the Film Festival Palace in Cannes before 10,000 international participants.

With the Firesign Theatre he starred in "God's Clowns", a short film for Wieden & Kennedy Entertainment, appeared at the prestigious Ted Conference in Monterey, the Ginsberg Memorial at the Wadworth Theatre in L.A., hosted the 10th Annual Pollstar Awards and toured the West Coast with a two-act play based on the Firesign's album (since their last 17 years earlier) "Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death" (Rhino Records) which was nominated for a Grammy in 1998. Their next record "Boom Dot Bust", was released as the world's first spoken arts DVD-A.

After appearing as the Comic Servant, Tristan in Alercon's "The Liar at the Secret Rose", Phil went on to play the father in the nationally acclaimed revival of Arthur Miller's first Broadway play (1940) "The Man Who Had All The Luck" at the Ivy Sub Station in Culver City.

He is also the voice of "Toto" in Otherworld Media's star studded double-CD audio version of "The Wonderful Wizard of OZ" adapted by David Ossman for the L.A Children's Museum. Phil also writes a monthly cybercolumn at www.planetproctor.com.