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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 30, 1916
Died
February 9, 2006
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
- Phillip Walp Brown
Phil Brown
0.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.5
Self
Starwoids
2001
8.0
Council Elder
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
1999
7.4
Projectionist
Chaplin
1992
6.8
Lord Beaverbrook
Bomber Harris
1989
5.0
O
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988
5.0
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
6.5
Lewis Strauss
Oppenheimer
1980
0.0
Narrator
The Martian Chronicles
1980
6.9
Narrator
The Martian Chronicles
1980
6.7
F. Milton Willis
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Credits
Starwoids
as Self
2001
5.5
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
as Council Elder
1999
8.0
Chaplin
as Projectionist
1992
7.4
Bomber Harris
as Lord Beaverbrook
1989
6.8
The Fortunate Pilgrim
as O
1988
5.0
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
5.0
Oppenheimer
as Lewis Strauss
1980
6.5
The Martian Chronicles
as Narrator
1980
0.0
The Martian Chronicles
as Narrator
1980
6.9
Tales of the Unexpected
as F. Milton Willis
1979
6.7
Superman
as State Senator
1978
7.2
Maneaters Are Loose!
as Kevin Pennington
1978
0.0
The Professionals
as Callahan
1977
7.5
Star Wars
as Uncle Owen
1977
8.2
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Rev. Cartwright
1977
6.4
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Virginia Senator
1976
6.9
The Romantic Englishwoman
as Mr. Wilson
1975
5.4
Scalawag
as Sandy
1973
5.5
Ooh...You Are Awful
as American Man
1972
4.5
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
as Clark
1972
0.0
The Protectors
as Adam Markos
1972
5.8
🎬
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
1972
0.0
Valdez Is Coming
as Malson
1971
6.2
Togetherness
as Everett
1970
2.3
Tropic of Cancer
as Van Norden
1970
4.5
The Adding Machine
as Don
1969
5.5
Land Raiders
as Sheriff John Mayfield
1969
5.4
Journey to the Unknown
1968
6.3
Operation Cross Eagles
as Sgt. Turley
1968
5.2
Bomb at 10:10
as Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
1967
4.8
The Bedford Incident
as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
1965
7.0
Out of the Unknown
1965
7.0
The Counterfeit Traitor
as Harold Murray (uncredited)
1962
6.4
Interpol Calling
as Brownley
1959
6.7
John Paul Jones
as Sentry
1959
5.9
Dial 999
1958
0.0
The Camp on Blood Island
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
1958
6.6
🎬
White Hunter
1957
0.0
A King in New York
as Headmaster
1957
6.8
Theatre Night
as Sam Grassman
1957
0.0
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
as Dr. Bryan Hayes
1956
7.3
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
as Gordon
1956
7.3
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
as Frank Rawlinson
1955
7.6
Obsession
as Bill Kronin
1949
6.8
Moonrise
as Elmer - Soda Jerk
1948
6.2
The Luck of the Irish
as Tom Higginbotham
1948
5.8
If You Knew Susie
as Joe Collins
1948
7.5
Johnny O'Clock
as Phil, Hotel Clerk
1947
6.2
The Killers
as Nick Adams (uncredited)
1946
7.3
State Fair
as Harry Ware
1945
6.6
Over 21
as Frank MacDougal
1945
5.2
The Jungle Captive
as Don Young
1945
5.5
The Impatient Years
as Henry Fairchild
1944
6.3
Weird Woman
as David Jennings
1944
6.0
Calling Dr. Gillespie
as Roy Todwell
1942
6.5
Pierre of the Plains
as Val Denton
1942
4.0
Hello, Annapolis
as Kansas City
1942
10.0
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Joe Bingham
1941
7.1
I Wanted Wings
as Jimmy Masters
1941
5.4