- According to a quote from Lucille Ball in Boze Hadleigh's "Hollywood Babble-On", Ober physically abused Vivian Vance, and one time when Vance came to the set with a "shiner", Ball told her that if she [Vance] wouldn't divorce [Ober], then she [Ball] would.
- Philip appeared in a couple of the I Love Lucy (1951) shows with then-wife Vivian Vance. His best remembered role was as Ricky Ricardo's producer Dore Schary in one of Lucy's "Hollywood" episodes.
- Gave up his acting career in the late 1960s to join the U.S. Consular Service in Mexico.
- Many sources state that Ober died of a heart attack in Mexico City. However, Associated Press stories at the time of his death, as well as the California Death Index and the Social Security Death Index indicate that Ober died of lung cancer at Santa Monica Hospital in Santa Monica, California.
- Studied at Princeton University and worked as an advertiser for such publications as Colliers and Liberty.
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