赛德勒出生于纽约州的水牛城，很小的时候就在观众前表演弦乐。在Orchard Park读高中时取得了成功，他扮演了一个叫做班卓·比尔·赛德勒的角色，一个演奏班卓琴的歌手，他还能在演奏的过程里说些笑话，学生和教师都非常喜欢他的表演，于是在英文老师Dan Larkin的劝说下，赛德勒参加了高年级...
A much-loved comic actor who has specialized in playing plummy, quintessentially English stereotypes, Leslie Phillips' heart was in acting from a very young age. He received elocution lessons as a child in order to lose his natural cockney accent (at that time a regional British accent was a major impediment to an aspiring actor) and he attended the Italia Conti School.
