Phil Brown
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 30, 1916
- Died
- Feb 9, 2006 (aged 89)
- Place of birth
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Credits
- 57
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.
Known for
Star Wars
1977Movie
Uncle Owen
Superman
1978Movie
State Senator
Chaplin
1992Movie
Projectionist
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976Movie
Virginia Senator
The Killers
1946Movie
Nick Adams (uncredited)
A King in New York
1957Movie
Headmaster
Filmography
Starwoids
2001Movie
Self
Chaplin
1992Movie
Projectionist
Bomber Harris
1989Movie
Lord Beaverbrook
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988TV
O
American Playhouse
1982TV
Lewis Strauss, Frank Karelsen
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981TV
Oppenheimer
1980TV
Lewis Strauss
The Martian Chronicles
1980TV
Narrator
Tales of the Unexpected
1979TV
F. Milton Willis
Superman
1978Movie
State Senator
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978Movie
Kevin Pennington
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1978TV
Jeremiah Cobb
The Professionals
1977TV
Callahan
Star Wars
1977Movie
Uncle Owen
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977Movie
Rev. Cartwright
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976Movie
Virginia Senator
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975Movie
Mr. Wilson
Scalawag
1973Movie
Sandy
Ooh...You Are Awful
1972Movie
American Man
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1972Movie
Clark
The Protectors
1972TV
Adam Markos
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
1972Movie
Valdez Is Coming
1971Movie
Malson
Togetherness
1970Movie
Everett
Tropic of Cancer
1970Movie
Van Norden
The Adding Machine
1969Movie
Don
Land Raiders
1969Movie
Sheriff John Mayfield
Journey to the Unknown
1968TV
Dr. Charles Wilson
Operation Cross Eagles
1968Movie
Sgt. Turley
Bomb at 10:10
1967Movie
Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
The Bedford Incident
1965Movie
Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
The Counterfeit Traitor
1962Movie
Harold Murray (uncredited)
Interpol Calling
1959TV
Brownley
John Paul Jones
1959Movie
Sentry
Dial 999
1958TV
The Camp on Blood Island
1958Movie
Lt. Peter Bellamy
White Hunter
1957TV
A King in New York
1957Movie
Headmaster
Theatre Night
1957TV
Sam Grassman
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956TV
Dr. Bryan Hayes, Gordon
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955TV
Frank Rawlinson
Obsession
1949Movie
Bill Kronin
Moonrise
1948Movie
Elmer - Soda Jerk
The Luck of the Irish
1948Movie
Tom Higginbotham
If You Knew Susie
1948Movie
Joe Collins
Johnny O'Clock
1947Movie
Phil, Hotel Clerk
The Killers
1946Movie
Nick Adams (uncredited)
State Fair
1945Movie
Harry Ware
Over 21
1945Movie
Frank MacDougal
The Jungle Captive
1945Movie
Don Young
The Impatient Years
1944Movie
Henry Fairchild
Weird Woman
1944Movie
David Jennings
Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942Movie
Roy Todwell
Pierre of the Plains
1942Movie
Val Denton
Hello, Annapolis
1942Movie
Kansas City
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941Movie
Joe Bingham
I Wanted Wings
1941Movie
Jimmy Masters