Linas Phillips

Linas Phillips

A graduate of New York University's Experimental Theater Wing, Linas Phillips started out as a live performer of experimental theater and alternative comedy while living in New York City. Linas' day job for over 5 years was babysitting special needs kids, with whom he started making short videos.

After many years of performing comedy and experimental theater work in New York City Linas switched to making films in 2006. His first film, "Walking To Werner", documenting his 1,200 mile walk from Seattle to LA to meet Werner Herzog, earned him a spot in Filmmaker Magazine's list of 25 New Faces in Independent Film. His third feature "Bass Ackwards", which he wrote, acted in and directed, premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Recently he guest starred in an episode of Eastbound and Down (Season 4) and is set to act opposite Jay Duplass in writer/director J. Davis' "Manson Family Vacation".

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Movies for Linas Phillips...

Strawberry Mansion
Title: Strawberry Mansion
Character: Buddy
Released: July 22, 2021
Type: Movie
In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote farmhouse to audit the dreams of Arabella “Bella” Isadora, an eccentric, aging artist. Entering Bella’s vast VHS archive, which contains a lifetime of dreams, Preble stumbles upon a secret that offers him a chance at love—and hope for escape.
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Spree
Title: Spree
Character: Frederick
Released: August 14, 2020
Type: Movie
Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.
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The Ride
Title: The Ride
Character: Wayne
Released: January 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Wayne, a 40-year-old rideshare driver and spiritual coach, recently moved back in with his mom. He discovers that the key to giving his life meaning is to help his unsuspecting passengers let go of their negative thoughts—whether they want his help or not.
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Balk
Title: Balk
Character: Pat
Released: January 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Rob and Pat, middle-aged best buddies and local irritants, scheme to influence the outcome of a Little League game by kidnapping the star player.
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Living Room Coffin
Title: Living Room Coffin
Character: Jake
Released: December 12, 2018
Type: Movie
In this dark comedy, a young woman has her quiet life turned upside down when she receives an empty coffin in the mail. She then sets off on a twisting journey to find out who sent it and why.
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The Great Pretender
Title: The Great Pretender
Character: Nick
Released: April 21, 2018
Type: Movie
The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect dramatically.
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Lane 1974
Title: Lane 1974
Character: Claude
Released: March 11, 2017
Type: Movie
At 13 years old and the eldest of three kids, Lane struggles to keep her family together as her iconoclast mother moves without warning through the communes and dusty back woods of Northern California.
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Title: Search Party
Character: Farley
Released: November 21, 2016
Type: TV
A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.
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Uncle Kent 2
Title: Uncle Kent 2
Character: Arthur Fonzarelli
Released: August 26, 2016
Type: Movie
In a desperate search to create a follow-up to Joe Swanberg's 2011 film Uncle Kent, Kent Osborne travels to a comic book convention in San Diego where he loses his mind and confronts the end of the world.
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Brides to Be
Title: Brides to Be
Character: Bob
Released: July 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Brides to Be is an existential supernatural drama about love and the struggle to conquer hate.
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Rainbow Time
Title: Rainbow Time
Character: Shonzi
Released: March 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Todd grew up under the strange shadow of his older mentally challenged brother Shonzi. As kids, Shonzi forced Todd to make action movies. As adults he pressures him to share love life details, even showing Shonzi a sex tape he made with an old girlfriend to help him cope when family tragedy hits. When their dad suffers a heart attack, Shonzi (now 40, and still a virgin) moves in with Todd and his new girlfriend Lindsay. Shonzi wants desperately to be included in their relationship like old times. When Shonzi’s begging become threats to reveal secrets from their past, Todd must find the courage to be honest with Lindsay, even if it means the end of their relationship.
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The Bulb
Title: The Bulb
Released: January 31, 2016
Type: Movie
Two strangers experience an alien phenomenon through the public access broadcast in a motel room.
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Manson Family Vacation
Title: Manson Family Vacation
Character: Conrad
Released: October 6, 2015
Type: Movie
The story of two brothers: one who’s devoted to his family, the other who’s obsessed with the Manson Family.
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Title: Togetherness
Character: Scott
Released: January 11, 2015
Type: TV
Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
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Lucky Them
Title: Lucky Them
Character: Anglar
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
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Bass Ackwards
Title: Bass Ackwards
Character: Linas
Released: January 23, 2010
Type: Movie
A man coming off a disastrous affair with a married woman has a lyrical, strange and comedic cross-country journey in a modified VW bus.
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William Never Married
Title: William Never Married
Character: Julie's Boyfriend
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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True Adolescents
Title: True Adolescents
Character: Slater
Released: March 14, 2009
Type: Movie
At 34, struggling Seattle musician Sam finds himself broke, jobless and losing touch with the person he wants to become. When his girlfriend kicks him out, he's forced to crash with his aunt Sharon and is reluctantly enlisted to take her teenage son and his friend camping.
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Walking to Werner
Title: Walking to Werner
Character: Self
Released: April 24, 2006
Type: Movie
Linas Phillips pays tribute to Werner Herzog in his pledge to walk from Seattle, Washington to Herzog's Los Angeles home.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Russ
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Bronzed
Title: Bronzed
Character: Martin
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Neo-sun worshiper Martin prepares to appease the solar Gods with ritual human sacrifice. But first he needs a spray tan.