Phil Brown
Acting
Born 1916-04-30
Died 2006-02-09
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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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.
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Acting
53 credits
American Playhouse
Star Wars
Tales of the Unexpected
The Professionals
Superman
The Protectors
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Interpol Calling
Journey to the Unknown
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Chaplin
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Theatre Night
The Martian Chronicles
Oppenheimer
The Killers
The Fortunate Pilgrim
Valdez Is Coming
The Bedford Incident
Twilight's Last Gleaming
John Paul Jones
A King in New York
The Counterfeit Traitor
Land Raiders
Hello, Annapolis
The Romantic Englishwoman
The Camp on Blood Island
State Fair
I Wanted Wings
Moonrise
Tropic of Cancer
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
The Impatient Years
The Jungle Captive
Starwoids
The Luck of the Irish
Johnny O'Clock
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Obsession
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
Over 21
If You Knew Susie
Pierre of the Plains
Bomb at 10:10
Ooh...You Are Awful
Scalawag
Maneaters Are Loose!
Weird Woman
Operation Cross Eagles
Bomber Harris
Togetherness
The Adding Machine
Directing
4 credits
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