Phil Brown
Age: 89 | From: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Person Details
Birthday: 1916-04-30 18:21:48
Death: 2006-02-09 18:21:48
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 29
TV Involvements: 12
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
The Professionals
(1977) Callahan
Interpol Calling
(1959) Brownley
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
(1955) Frank Rawlinson
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979) F. Milton Willis
The Protectors
(1972) Adam Markos
Star Wars
(1977) Uncle Owen
Oppenheimer
(1980) Lewis Strauss
Superman
(1978) State Senator (uncredited)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Self | |
| 1999 | Council Elder | |
| 1992 | Projectionist | |
| 1989 | Lord Beaverbrook | |
| 1981 | N/A | |
| 1980 | Lewis Strauss | |
| Narrator | ||
| 1979 | F. Milton Willis | |
| 1978 | State Senator (uncredited) | |
| Kevin Pennington | ||
| 1977 | Callahan | |
| Uncle Owen | ||
| Rev. Cartwright | ||
| 1976 | Virginia Senator | |
| 1975 | Mr. Wilson | |
| 1973 | Sandy | |
| 1972 | American Man | |
| Adam Markos | ||
| 1971 | Malson | |
| 1970 | Everett | |
| Van Norden | ||
| 1969 | Don | |
| Sheriff John Mayfield | ||
| 1968 | N/A | |
| Sgt. Turley | ||
| 1967 | Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić | |
| 1965 | Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay | |
| N/A | ||
| 1962 | Harold Murray | |
| 1961 | N/A | |
| 1959 | Brownley | |
| Sentry | ||
| 1958 | N/A | |
| Lt. Peter Bellamy | ||
| 1957 | N/A | |
| Headmaster | ||
| 1956 | Dr. Bryan Hayes | |
| Gordon | ||
| 1955 | Frank Rawlinson | |
| 1949 | Bill Kronin | |
| 1948 | Elmer - Soda Jerk | |
| Tom Higginbotham | ||
| Joe Collins | ||
| 1947 | Phil, Hotel Clerk | |
| 1946 | Nick Adams (uncredited) | |
| 1945 | Harry Ware | |
| Frank MacDougal | ||
| Don Young | ||
| 1944 | Henry Fairchild | |
| David Jennings | ||
| 1942 | Roy Todwell | |
| Val Denton | ||
| Kansas City | ||
| 1941 | Joe Bingham | |
| Jimmy Masters | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Director | |
| 1956 | Director | |
| 1951 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Dialogue Coach | |
| 1945 | Dialogue Coach | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |