Phil Brown
Acting
1916-04-30 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Filmography
Starwoids
2001 · Movie
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
1999 · Movie
Chaplin
1992 · Movie
Bomber Harris
1989 · Movie
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988 · Series
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981 · Series
Oppenheimer
1980 · Series
The Martian Chronicles
1980 · Series
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Series
Superman
1978 · Movie
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978 · Movie
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1978 · Series
The Professionals
1977 · Series
Star Wars
1977 · Movie
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977 · Movie
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976 · Movie
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975 · Movie
Scalawag
1973 · Movie
Ooh...You Are Awful
1972 · Movie
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1972 · Movie
The Protectors
1972 · Series
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
1972 · Movie
Valdez Is Coming
1971 · Movie
Togetherness
1970 · Movie
Tropic of Cancer
1970 · Movie
The Adding Machine
1969 · Movie
Land Raiders
1969 · Movie
Journey to the Unknown
1968 · Series
Operation Cross Eagles
1968 · Movie
Bomb at 10:10
1967 · Movie
The Bedford Incident
1965 · Movie
The Counterfeit Traitor
1962 · Movie
Ghost Squad
1961 · Series
Theatre '70
1960 · Series
Interpol Calling
1959 · Series
John Paul Jones
1959 · Movie
Dial 999
1958 · Series
The Camp on Blood Island
1958 · Movie
White Hunter
1957 · Series
A King in New York
1957 · Movie
Theatre Night
1957 · Series
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956 · Series
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955 · Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Series
Obsession
1949 · Movie
Moonrise
1948 · Movie
The Luck of the Irish
1948 · Movie
If You Knew Susie
1948 · Movie
Johnny O'Clock
1947 · Movie
The Killers
1946 · Movie
State Fair
1945 · Movie
Over 21
1945 · Movie
The Jungle Captive
1945 · Movie
The Impatient Years
1944 · Movie
Weird Woman
1944 · Movie
Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942 · Movie
Pierre of the Plains
1942 · Movie
Hello, Annapolis
1942 · Movie
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · Movie
I Wanted Wings
1941 · Movie