Cast
Phil Brown
Acting
Cast
Phil Brown
Known for
Acting
Born
1916-04-30
From
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Died
2006-02-09
Also known as Phillip Walp Brown, Philip Mortimer Brown
Biography
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.
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MOVIE1977
Star Wars
as Uncle Owen
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MOVIE1978
Superman
as State Senator
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7.4
MOVIE1992
Chaplin
as Projectionist
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MOVIE1942
Hello, Annapolis
as Kansas City
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6.9
MOVIE1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Virginia Senator
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6.5
MOVIE1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Rev. Cartwright
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7.4
MOVIE1946
The Killers
as Nick Adams (uncredited)
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6.7
MOVIE1957
A King in New York
as Headmaster
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MOVIE1965
The Bedford Incident
as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
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6.4
MOVIE1971
Valdez Is Coming
as Malson
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5.4
MOVIE1975
The Romantic Englishwoman
as Mr. Wilson
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MOVIE1959
John Paul Jones
as Sentry
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MOVIE1970
Tropic of Cancer
as Van Norden
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MOVIE1948
The Luck of the Irish
as Tom Higginbotham
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5.6
MOVIE1941
I Wanted Wings
as Jimmy Masters
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6.8
MOVIE1949
Obsession
as Bill Kronin
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5.6
MOVIE1945
The Jungle Captive
as Don Young
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6.5
MOVIE1962
The Counterfeit Traitor
as Harold Murray (uncredited)
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MOVIE1958
The Camp on Blood Island
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
MOVIE1972
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
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6.3
MOVIE1947
Johnny O'Clock
as Phil, Hotel Clerk
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MOVIE1945
State Fair
as Harry Ware
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MOVIE1942
Pierre of the Plains
as Val Denton
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4.8
MOVIE1972
Ooh...You Are Awful
as American Man
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5.6
MOVIE1969
Land Raiders
as Sheriff John Mayfield
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7.0
MOVIE1942
Calling Dr. Gillespie
as Roy Todwell
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MOVIE1941
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Joe Bingham
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6.3
MOVIE2001
Starwoids
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE1999
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
as Council Elder
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6.3
MOVIE1944
The Impatient Years
as Henry Fairchild
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6.7
MOVIE1945
Over 21
as Frank MacDougal
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5.6
MOVIE1967
Bomb at 10:10
as Professor Pilich / Profesor PiliΔ
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7.8
MOVIE1989
Bomber Harris
as Lord Beaverbrook
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6.3
MOVIE1948
Moonrise
as Elmer - Soda Jerk
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10.0
MOVIE1978
Maneaters Are Loose!
as Kevin Pennington
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5.6
MOVIE1968
Operation Cross Eagles
as Sgt. Turley
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7.3
MOVIE1948
If You Knew Susie
as Joe Collins
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6.7
MOVIE1969
The Adding Machine
as Don
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6.0
MOVIE1944
Weird Woman
as David Jennings
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5.7
MOVIE1973
Scalawag
as Sandy
MOVIE1972
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
as Clark
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3.8
MOVIE1970
Togetherness
as Everett