1916-04-30 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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Starwoids | Self | 2001-01-01 |
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Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming | Council Elder | 1999-01-01 |
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Chaplin | Projectionist | 1992-12-17 |
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Bomber Harris | Lord Beaverbrook | 1989-09-03 |
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Superman | State Senator | 1978-12-14 |
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Maneaters Are Loose! | Kevin Pennington | 1978-05-03 |
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Twilight's Last Gleaming | Rev. Cartwright | 1977-02-09 |
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Star Wars | Uncle Owen | 1977-05-25 |
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Virginia Senator | 1976-12-15 |
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The Romantic Englishwoman | Mr. Wilson | 1975-06-11 |
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Scalawag | Sandy | 1973-04-22 |
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The Curse of a Faithful Wife | 1972-06-25 | |
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The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Clark | 1972-11-07 |
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Ooh... You Are Awful | American Man | 1972-12-01 |
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Valdez Is Coming | Malson | 1971-04-09 |
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Togetherness | Everett | 1970-09-13 |
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Tropic of Cancer | Van Norden | 1970-02-27 |
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The Adding Machine | Don | 1969-09-23 |
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Land Raiders | Sheriff John Mayfield | 1969-07-27 |
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Operation Cross Eagles | Sgt. Turley | 1968-01-01 |
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Bomba u 10 i 10 | Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić | 1967-07-12 |
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The Bedford Incident | Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay | 1965-10-11 |
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The Counterfeit Traitor | Harold Murray | 1962-04-17 |
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John Paul Jones | Sentry | 1959-06-16 |
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The Camp on Blood Island | Lt. Peter Bellamy | 1958-04-15 |
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A King in New York | Headmaster | 1957-09-12 |
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Obsession | Bill Kronin | 1949-08-03 |
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If You Knew Susie | Joe Collins | 1948-02-07 |
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The Luck of the Irish | Tom Higginbotham | 1948-09-15 |
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Moonrise | Elmer - Soda Jerk | 1948-10-01 |
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Johnny O'Clock | Phil, Hotel Clerk | 1947-01-07 |
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The Killers | Nick Adams (uncredited) | 1946-08-30 |
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Over 21 | Frank MacDougal | 1945-08-08 |
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State Fair | Harry Ware | 1945-08-29 |
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The Jungle Captive | Don Young | 1945-06-25 |
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The Impatient Years | Henry Fairchild | 1944-09-10 |
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Weird Woman | David Jennings | 1944-03-01 |
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Hello, Annapolis | Kansas City | 1942-04-23 |
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Calling Dr. Gillespie | Roy Todwell | 1942-08-01 |
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Pierre of the Plains | Val Denton | 1942-07-29 |
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I Wanted Wings | Jimmy Masters | 1941-03-26 |
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H.M. Pulham, Esq. | Joe Bingham | 1941-12-04 |
