Philippe Delambre | |
Continuity: | The Fly |
Notability: | Main character |
Occupation: | Scientist |
Gender: | Male |
Race: | Altered human |
Location: | Montreal, Québec, Canada |
Relatives: | André Delambre Hélène Delambre François Delambre |
Status: | Alive |
First: | The Fly |
Final: | Return of the Fly |
Actor: | Charles Herbert Brett Halsey |
Philippe Delambre is a fictional scientist and a central character featured in the The Fly film series. He first appeared in the 1958 sci-fi classic The Fly as a child character played by actor Charles Herbert. The character appeared again in the 1959 sequel film Return of the Fly, now an adult. The adult Philippe was played by actor Brett Halsey.
Biography[]

Philippe as a young boy.
Philippe Delambre was a French-Canadian scientist who grew up in Montreal, Québec in the early 1950s. He was the son of scientist André Delambre and his wife Hélène. He had an uncle named François. When Philippe was a child, he lost his father to a scientific accident in a laboratory that merged his biology with that of a housefly. Despite this, young Philippe expressed a desire to become just like his father.
This attitude never wavered even into adulthood. Philippe wanted to duplicate his father's experiments with teleportation despite the protestations of his uncle, François. An industrial spy named Ronald Holmes, seeking to acquire the Delambre technology, attacked Philippe and deliberately placed him inside the teleporter with a fly. When the machine was activated, Philippe's human body developed an over-sized insectoid head, while his human head was transposed onto the body of the fly. As the Fly, Philippe succeeded in killing Holmes, and was eventually restored to normal.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Philippe Delambre was created by director Kurt Neumann and screenplay writer James Clavell based on a story written by George Langelaan.
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