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.
Acted in
Starwoids
2001
as Self
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
1999
as Council Elder
Chaplin
1992
as Projectionist
Bomber Harris
1989
as Lord Beaverbrook
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988
as O
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
Oppenheimer
1980
as Lewis Strauss
The Martian Chronicles
1980
as Narrator
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as F. Milton Willis
Superman
1978
as State Senator
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978
as Kevin Pennington
The Professionals
1977
as Callahan
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 Protectors
1972
as Adam Markos
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
1972
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
Journey to the Unknown
1968
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
Out of the Unknown
1965
The Counterfeit Traitor
1962
as Harold Murray
Ben Casey
1961
Interpol Calling
1959
as Brownley
John Paul Jones
1959
as Sentry
Dial 999
1958
The Camp on Blood Island
1958
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
White Hunter
1957
A King in New York
1957
as Headmaster
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956
as Dr. Bryan Hayes
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956
as Gordon
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955
as Frank Rawlinson
Obsession
1949
as Bill Kronin
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
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