Biography
Phillips worked as an adjunct director & teacher at a University of Texas, where he as well exposed Drama & Film System, between 1983-1986.

He is an graduate of University of Texas at Arlington. He attended Flour Bluff High School in Corpus Christi, TX.

Phillips' large break go with a prima role within 1987's La Bamba as doomed early rocker Ritchie Valens. Though the role garnered him laud from either critics, he has since noticed it hard to call for an additional leading role inside a heavy-budget Hollywood film.

A 1st moo budget film where he starred within was known as Trespasses. In a period of the making of this film, he met Julie Cypher, an assistant director world health organization would late be his married woman. She would late divorce him & last in to exist as a sapphic lover of Melissa Etheridge.

Selected Filmography
24 (2002) TV series - cameo as a warden at a government top secret underground prison, alongside Kiefer Sutherland. Wolf Lake (2001) TV Series Brokedown Palace (1999) The Big Hit (1998) Courage Under Fire (1996) The First Power (1990) Young Guns II (1990) Young Guns (1988) Stand and Deliver (1988) La Bamba (1987) Disorganized Crime (1989)