Phil Brown
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 30, 1916
- Died
- February 9, 2006 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
Philip Mortimer Brown was an American actor and director. After majoring in dramatics at Stanford University where he was a Brother of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, Brown played some of his earliest stage roles as part of New York's Group Theater. When it folded, he and other Group Theatre veterans headed to Hollywood, where Brown worked in motion pictures and helped found the fabled Actors' Laboratory. In 1946, he played Ernest Hemingway's famous protagonist Nick Adams in Robert Siodmak's version of The Killers, alongside William Conrad and Charles McGraw as the titular "killers". His association with the Lab came back to haunt him later in the decade, when its members fell under the scrutiny of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Although he was not a communist, Brown was blacklisted in 1952, and was eventually compelled to relocate with his family to England between 1953 and 1993. Overseas he was able to resume acting on stage, TV and films; he also directed for the stage and TV. He was best known for his role as Luke Skywalker's uncle, Owen Lars, in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977). He returned to the United States in the 1990s and in later years made the rounds of autograph shows. Phil Brown died of pneumonia on February 9, 2006 at the age of 89.
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Filmography
Starwoids
Movie · as Self
Chaplin
Movie · as Projectionist
Bomber Harris
Movie · as Lord Beaverbrook
The Fortunate Pilgrim
TV · as O · 2 eps
American Playhouse
TV · as Lewis Strauss, Frank Karelsen · 2 eps
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
TV · 2 eps
The Martian Chronicles
TV · as Narrator · 3 eps
Oppenheimer
TV · as Lewis Strauss · 2 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
TV · as F. Milton Willis · 1 ep
Maneaters Are Loose!
Movie · as Kevin Pennington
Superman
Movie · as State Senator
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
TV · as Jeremiah Cobb · 4 eps
Star Wars
Movie · as Uncle Owen
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Movie · as Rev. Cartwright
The Professionals
TV · as Callahan · 1 ep
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Movie · as Virginia Senator
The Romantic Englishwoman
Movie · as Mr. Wilson
Scalawag
Movie · as Sandy
Ooh...You Are Awful
Movie · as American Man
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
Movie
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Movie · as Clark
The Protectors
TV · as Adam Markos · 1 ep
Valdez Is Coming
Movie · as Malson
Togetherness
Movie · as Everett
Tropic of Cancer
Movie · as Van Norden
Land Raiders
Movie · as Sheriff John Mayfield
The Adding Machine
Movie · as Don
Operation Cross Eagles
Movie · as Sgt. Turley
Journey to the Unknown
TV · as Dr. Charles Wilson · 1 ep
Bomb at 10:10
Movie · as Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
The Bedford Incident
Movie · as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
The Troubleshooters
TV · as Harry Tobin · 1 ep
The Counterfeit Traitor
Movie · as Harold Murray (uncredited)
John Paul Jones
Movie · as Sentry
Interpol Calling
TV · as Brownley · 1 ep
The Camp on Blood Island
Movie · as Lt. Peter Bellamy
Dial 999
TV · 1 ep
A King in New York
Movie · as Headmaster
White Hunter
TV · 1 ep
Theatre Night
TV · as Sam Grassman · 1 ep
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
TV · as Dr. Bryan Hayes, Gordon · 1 ep
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
TV · as Frank Rawlinson · 1 ep
Obsession
Movie · as Bill Kronin
The Luck of the Irish
Movie · as Tom Higginbotham
Moonrise
Movie · as Elmer - Soda Jerk
If You Knew Susie
Movie · as Joe Collins
Johnny O'Clock
Movie · as Phil, Hotel Clerk
The Killers
Movie · as Nick Adams (uncredited)
State Fair
Movie · as Harry Ware
Over 21
Movie · as Frank MacDougal
The Jungle Captive
Movie · as Don Young
Weird Woman
Movie · as David Jennings
The Impatient Years
Movie · as Henry Fairchild
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Movie · as Roy Todwell
Pierre of the Plains
Movie · as Val Denton
Hello, Annapolis
Movie · as Kansas City
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Movie · as Joe Bingham
I Wanted Wings
Movie · as Jimmy Masters