Phil Brown
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1916-04-30
Deathday 2006-02-09 (89 years old)
Place of Birth Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As Phillip Walp Brown
Phil 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.
Known For
Actor
as Self
as Council Elder
as Projectionist
as Lord Beaverbrook
as Lewis Strauss
as Narrator
as F. Milton Willis
as State Senator
as Kevin Pennington
as Uncle Owen
as Rev. Cartwright
as Callahan
as Virginia Senator
as Mr. Wilson
as Sandy
as American Man
as Adam Markos
as Malson
as Everett
as Van Norden
as Don
as Sheriff John Mayfield
as Sgt. Turley
as Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
as Harold Murray
as Sentry
as Brownley
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
as Headmaster
as Dr. Bryan Hayes
as Gordon
as Frank Rawlinson
as Bill Kronin
as Elmer - Soda Jerk
as Tom Higginbotham
as Joe Collins
as Phil, Hotel Clerk
as Nick Adams (uncredited)
as Harry Ware
as Frank MacDougal
as Don Young
as Henry Fairchild
as David Jennings
as Roy Todwell
as Val Denton
as Kansas City
as Joe Bingham
as Jimmy Masters
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Crew
as Dialogue Coach
as Dialogue Coach