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
Biography
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.
Star Wars
as Uncle Owen
Superman
as State Senator
Chaplin
as Projectionist
Hello, Annapolis
as Kansas City
Moonrise
as Elmer - Soda Jerk
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Virginia Senator
The Killers
as Nick Adams (uncredited)
Land Raiders
as Sheriff John Mayfield
Valdez Is Coming
as Malson
Obsession
as Bill Kronin
The Counterfeit Traitor
as Harold Murray (uncredited)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Rev. Cartwright
Maneaters Are Loose!
as Kevin Pennington
The Romantic Englishwoman
as Mr. Wilson
A King in New York
as Headmaster
Scalawag
as Sandy
The Bedford Incident
as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
The Luck of the Irish
as Tom Higginbotham
Over 21
as Frank MacDougal
John Paul Jones
as Sentry
State Fair
as Harry Ware
The Camp on Blood Island
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
The Jungle Captive
as Don Young
Starwoids
as Self
I Wanted Wings
as Jimmy Masters
Weird Woman
as David Jennings
Tropic of Cancer
as Van Norden
Calling Dr. Gillespie
as Roy Todwell
Operation Cross Eagles
as Sgt. Turley
Johnny O'Clock
as Phil, Hotel Clerk
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Joe Bingham
If You Knew Susie
as Joe Collins
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
as Clark
Ooh...You Are Awful
as American Man
The Adding Machine
as Don
Togetherness
as Everett
Bomb at 10:10
as Professor Pilich / Profesor PiliΔ
The Impatient Years
as Henry Fairchild
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
as Council Elder
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
Bomber Harris
as Lord Beaverbrook
Pierre of the Plains
as Val Denton