 After a little more than five years in Hawaii, he returned to Hollywood to portray President Theodore Roosevelt in the 1976 television movie "Eleanor and Franklin".Phipps' last movie role was in the 2000 independent film "Sordid Lives", in which he also served as one of the film's producers.In 2005, several of Phipps' films were the subject of an EIU (Eastern Illinois University) film festival in his honor.