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: Acting

Born: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1916-04-30

Died: 2006-02-09

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1941	I Wanted Wings	Jimmy Masters	54
2	1941	H.M. Pulham, Esq.	Joe Bingham	69
3	1942	Hello, Annapolis	Kansas City	100
4	1942	Pierre of the Plains	Val Denton	42
5	1942	Calling Dr. Gillespie	Roy Todwell	65
6	1944	Weird Woman	David Jennings	60
7	1944	The Impatient Years	Henry Fairchild	63
8	1945	The Jungle Captive	Don Young	56
9	1945	Over 21	Frank MacDougal	53
10	1945	State Fair	Harry Ware	66
11	1946	The Killers	Nick Adams (uncredited)	74
12	1947	Johnny O'Clock	Phil, Hotel Clerk	62
13	1948	If You Knew Susie	Joe Collins	75
14	1948	The Luck of the Irish	Tom Higginbotham	57
15	1948	Moonrise	Elmer - Soda Jerk	63
16	1949	Obsession	Bill Kronin	68
17	1957	A King in New York	Headmaster	68
18	1958	The Camp on Blood Island	Lt. Peter Bellamy	66
19	1959	John Paul Jones	Sentry	61
20	1962	The Counterfeit Traitor	Harold Murray	65
21	1965	The Bedford Incident	Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay	69
22	1967	Bomb at 10:10	Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić	48
23	1968	Operation Cross Eagles	Sgt. Turley	52
24	1969	Land Raiders	Sheriff John Mayfield	51
25	1969	The Adding Machine	Don	55
26	1970	Tropic of Cancer	Van Norden	47
27	1970	Togetherness	Everett	30
28	1971	Valdez Is Coming	Malson	63
29	1972	The Curse of a Faithful Wife		0
30	1972	The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui	Clark	0
31	1972	Ooh...You Are Awful	American Man	46
32	1973	Scalawag	Sandy	55
33	1975	The Romantic Englishwoman	Mr. Wilson	55
34	1976	The Pink Panther Strikes Again	Virginia Senator	69
35	1977	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Rev. Cartwright	64
36	1977	Star Wars	Uncle Owen	82
37	1978	Maneaters Are Loose!	Kevin Pennington	0
38	1978	Superman	State Senator	71
39	1989	Bomber Harris	Lord Beaverbrook	68
40	1992	Chaplin	Projectionist	74
41	1999	Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming	Council Elder	78
42	2001	Starwoids	Self	55

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel	Frank Rawlinson	76
2	1956	Colonel March of Scotland Yard	Dr. Bryan Hayes	73
3	1956	Colonel March of Scotland Yard	Gordon	73
4	1957	White Hunter		0
5	1958	Dial 999		0
6	1959	Interpol Calling	Brownley	67
7	1961	Ben Casey		56
8	1965	Out of the Unknown		70
9	1968	Journey to the Unknown		63
10	1972	The Protectors	Adam Markos	56
11	1977	The Professionals	Callahan	74
12	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	F. Milton Willis	67
13	1980	The Martian Chronicles	Narrator	69
14	1980	Oppenheimer	Lewis Strauss	67
15	1981	Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years		50
16	1988	The Fortunate Pilgrim	O	50
17	2012	Honest Trailers	Owen Lars (archive footage)	65

Phil Brown

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