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Phil Brown
Born · April 30, 1916
Died · February 9, 2006 (89 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Bio
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.
Starwoids
Self
5.5
2001
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
Council Elder
7.6
1999
Chaplin
Projectionist
7.4
1992
Bomber Harris
Lord Beaverbrook
6.8
1989
The Fortunate Pilgrim
O · (2 episodes)
5.0
1988
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
(2 episodes)
5.0
1981
Oppenheimer
Lewis Strauss · (7 episodes)
6.7
1980
The Martian Chronicles
Narrator · (3 episodes)
6.9
1980
Tales of the Unexpected
F. Milton Willis · (1 episode)
6.7
1979
Superman
State Senator
7.1
1978
Maneaters Are Loose!
Kevin Pennington
0.0
1978
The Professionals
Callahan · (1 episode)
7.4
1977
Star Wars
Uncle Owen
8.2
1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Rev. Cartwright
6.4
1977
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Virginia Senator
6.8
1976
The Romantic Englishwoman
Mr. Wilson
5.5
1975
Scalawag
Sandy
5.5
1973
Ooh... You Are Awful
American Man
4.8
1972
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Clark
0.0
1972
The Protectors
Adam Markos · (1 episode)
5.6
1972
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
0.0
1972
Valdez Is Coming
Malson
6.2
1971
Togetherness
Everett
3.0
1970
Tropic of Cancer
Van Norden
4.6
1970
The Adding Machine
Don
5.5
1969
Land Raiders
Sheriff John Mayfield
5.1
1969
Journey to the Unknown
(1 episode)
6.3
1968
Operation Cross Eagles
Sgt. Turley
5.2
1968
Bomb at 10:10
Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
4.8
1967
The Bedford Incident
Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
6.9
1965
Out of the Unknown
(1 episode)
6.8
1965
The Counterfeit Traitor
Harold Murray
6.4
1962
Ben Casey
(1 episode)
5.6
1961
Interpol Calling
Brownley · (1 episode)
6.7
1959
John Paul Jones
Sentry
6.1
1959
Dial 999
(1 episode)
0.0
1958
The Camp on Blood Island
Lt. Peter Bellamy
6.6
1958
White Hunter
(1 episode)
0.0
1957
A King in New York
Headmaster
6.8
1957
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Dr. Bryan Hayes · (1 episode)
7.3
1956
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Gordon · (1 episode)
7.3
1956
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Frank Rawlinson · (1 episode)
7.6
1955
Obsession
Bill Kronin
6.8
1949
Moonrise
Elmer - Soda Jerk
6.2
1948
The Luck of the Irish
Tom Higginbotham
5.6
1948
If You Knew Susie
Joe Collins
7.5
1948
Johnny O'Clock
Phil, Hotel Clerk
6.2
1947
The Killers
Nick Adams (uncredited)
7.3
1946
State Fair
Harry Ware
6.6
1945
Over 21
Frank MacDougal
5.3
1945
The Jungle Captive
Don Young
5.6
1945
The Impatient Years
Henry Fairchild
6.3
1944
Weird Woman
David Jennings
6.0
1944
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Roy Todwell
6.4
1942
Pierre of the Plains
Val Denton
4.2
1942
Hello, Annapolis
Kansas City
10.0
1942
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Joe Bingham
6.9
1941
I Wanted Wings
Jimmy Masters
5.1
1941