Phil Brown
Philip Brown was an American actor. Brown was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2001 · Starwoids as Self
- 1999 · Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming as Council Elder
- 1992 · Chaplin as Projectionist
- 1989 · Bomber Harris as Lord Beaverbrook
- 1988 · The Fortunate Pilgrim as O
- 1981 · Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years as
- 1980 · Oppenheimer as Lewis Strauss
- 1980 · The Martian Chronicles as Narrator
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as F. Milton Willis
- 1978 · Superman as State Senator
- 1978 · Maneaters Are Loose! as Kevin Pennington
- 1977 · The Professionals as Callahan
- 1977 · Star Wars as Uncle Owen
- 1977 · Twilight's Last Gleaming as Rev. Cartwright
- 1976 · The Pink Panther Strikes Again as Virginia Senator
- 1975 · The Romantic Englishwoman as Mr. Wilson
- 1973 · Scalawag as Sandy
- 1972 · Ooh... You Are Awful as American Man
- 1972 · The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui as Clark
- 1972 · The Protectors as Adam Markos
- 1972 · The Curse of a Faithful Wife as
- 1971 · Valdez Is Coming as Malson
- 1970 · Togetherness as Everett
- 1970 · Tropic of Cancer as Van Norden
- 1969 · The Adding Machine as Don
- 1969 · Land Raiders as Sheriff John Mayfield
- 1968 · Journey to the Unknown as
- 1968 · Operation Cross Eagles as Sgt. Turley
- 1967 · Bomb at 10:10 as Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
- 1965 · The Bedford Incident as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
- 1965 · Out of the Unknown as
- 1962 · The Counterfeit Traitor as Harold Murray
- 1961 · Ben Casey as
- 1959 · Interpol Calling as Brownley
- 1959 · John Paul Jones as Sentry
- 1958 · Dial 999 as
- 1958 · The Camp on Blood Island as Lt. Peter Bellamy
- 1957 · White Hunter as
- 1957 · A King in New York as Headmaster
- 1956 · Colonel March of Scotland Yard as Dr. Bryan Hayes
- 1956 · Colonel March of Scotland Yard as Gordon
- 1955 · The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel as Frank Rawlinson
- 1949 · Obsession as Bill Kronin
- 1948 · Moonrise as Elmer - Soda Jerk
- 1948 · The Luck of the Irish as Tom Higginbotham
- 1948 · If You Knew Susie as Joe Collins
- 1947 · Johnny O'Clock as Phil, Hotel Clerk
- 1946 · The Killers as Nick Adams (uncredited)
- 1945 · State Fair as Harry Ware
- 1945 · Over 21 as Frank MacDougal
- 1945 · The Jungle Captive as Don Young
- 1944 · The Impatient Years as Henry Fairchild
- 1944 · Weird Woman as David Jennings
- 1942 · Calling Dr. Gillespie as Roy Todwell
- 1942 · Pierre of the Plains as Val Denton
- 1942 · Hello, Annapolis as Kansas City
- 1941 · H.M. Pulham, Esq. as Joe Bingham
- 1941 · I Wanted Wings as Jimmy Masters