Phil Brown
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 30, 1916
- Died
- February 9, 2006
- Birthplace
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Filmography
Starwoids 2001
as Self
Chaplin 1992
as Projectionist
Bomber Harris 1989
as Lord Beaverbrook
Superman 1978
as State Senator
Maneaters Are Loose! 1978
as Kevin Pennington
Star Wars 1977
as Uncle Owen
Twilight's Last Gleaming 1977
as Rev. Cartwright
The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976
as Virginia Senator
The Romantic Englishwoman 1975
as Mr. Wilson
Scalawag 1973
as Sandy
Ooh...You Are Awful 1972
as American Man
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui 1972
as Clark
- The Curse of a Faithful Wife
The Curse of a Faithful Wife 1972
Actor
Valdez Is Coming 1971
as Malson
Togetherness 1970
as Everett
Tropic of Cancer 1970
as Van Norden
The Adding Machine 1969
as Don
Land Raiders 1969
as Sheriff John Mayfield
Operation Cross Eagles 1968
as Sgt. Turley
Bomb at 10:10 1967
as Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
The Bedford Incident 1965
as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
The Counterfeit Traitor 1962
as Harold Murray (uncredited)
John Paul Jones 1959
as Sentry
The Camp on Blood Island 1958
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
A King in New York 1957
as Headmaster
Obsession 1949
as Bill Kronin, Dialogue Coach
Moonrise 1948
as Elmer - Soda Jerk
The Luck of the Irish 1948
as Tom Higginbotham
If You Knew Susie 1948
as Joe Collins
Johnny O'Clock 1947
as Phil, Hotel Clerk
The Killers 1946
as Nick Adams (uncredited)
State Fair 1945
as Harry Ware
Over 21 1945
as Frank MacDougal
The Jungle Captive 1945
as Don Young, Dialogue Coach
The Impatient Years 1944
as Henry Fairchild
Weird Woman 1944
as David Jennings
Calling Dr. Gillespie 1942
as Roy Todwell
Pierre of the Plains 1942
as Val Denton
Hello, Annapolis 1942
as Kansas City
H.M. Pulham, Esq. 1941
as Joe Bingham
I Wanted Wings 1941
as Jimmy Masters
Credits from TMDB.