Phil Brown
Born
April 30, 1916
Died
February 9, 2006 (89 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Honest Trailers
Owen Lars (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2012
Starwoids
Self
2001
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
Council Elder
1999
Chaplin
Projectionist
1992
Bomber Harris
Lord Beaverbrook
1989
The Fortunate Pilgrim
O · (2 episodes)
1988
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
(2 episodes)
1981
Oppenheimer
Lewis Strauss · (7 episodes)
1980
The Martian Chronicles
Narrator · (3 episodes)
1980
Tales of the Unexpected
F. Milton Willis · (1 episode)
1979
Superman
State Senator
1978
Maneaters Are Loose!
Kevin Pennington
1978
The Professionals
Callahan · (1 episode)
1977
Star Wars
Uncle Owen
1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Rev. Cartwright
1977
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Virginia Senator
1976
The Romantic Englishwoman
Mr. Wilson
1975
Scalawag
Sandy
1973
Ooh...You Are Awful
American Man
1972
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Clark
1972
The Protectors
Adam Markos · (1 episode)
1972
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
1972
Valdez Is Coming
Malson
1971
Togetherness
Everett
1970
Tropic of Cancer
Van Norden
1970
The Adding Machine
Don
1969
Land Raiders
Sheriff John Mayfield
1969
Journey to the Unknown
(1 episode)
1968
Operation Cross Eagles
Sgt. Turley
1968
Bomb at 10:10
Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
1967
The Bedford Incident
Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
1965
Out of the Unknown
(1 episode)
1965
The Counterfeit Traitor
Harold Murray
1962
Ben Casey
(1 episode)
1961
Interpol Calling
Brownley · (1 episode)
1959
John Paul Jones
Sentry
1959
Dial 999
(1 episode)
1958
The Camp on Blood Island
Lt. Peter Bellamy
1958
White Hunter
(1 episode)
1957
A King in New York
Headmaster
1957
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Dr. Bryan Hayes · (1 episode)
1956
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Gordon · (1 episode)
1956
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Frank Rawlinson · (1 episode)
1955
Obsession
Bill Kronin
1949
Moonrise
Elmer - Soda Jerk
1948
The Luck of the Irish
Tom Higginbotham
1948
If You Knew Susie
Joe Collins
1948
Johnny O'Clock
Phil, Hotel Clerk
1947
The Killers
Nick Adams (uncredited)
1946
State Fair
Harry Ware
1945
Over 21
Frank MacDougal
1945
The Jungle Captive
Don Young
1945
The Impatient Years
Henry Fairchild
1944
Weird Woman
David Jennings
1944
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Roy Todwell
1942
Pierre of the Plains
Val Denton
1942
Hello, Annapolis
Kansas City
1942
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Joe Bingham
1941
I Wanted Wings
Jimmy Masters
1941