Phil Brown
Actor
Born April 30, 1916 in 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.
Filmography
Starwoids
Self
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
Council Elder
Chaplin
Projectionist
Bomber Harris
Lord Beaverbrook
The Fortunate Pilgrim
O
American Playhouse
Lewis Strauss
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Oppenheimer
Lewis Strauss
The Martian Chronicles
Narrator
Tales of the Unexpected
F. Milton Willis
Superman
State Senator
Maneaters Are Loose!
Kevin Pennington
The Professionals
Callahan
Star Wars
Uncle Owen
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Rev. Cartwright
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Virginia Senator
The Romantic Englishwoman
Mr. Wilson
Scalawag
Sandy
Ooh...You Are Awful
American Man
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Clark
The Protectors
Adam Markos
Valdez Is Coming
Malson
Togetherness
Everett
Tropic of Cancer
Van Norden
The Adding Machine
Don
Land Raiders
Sheriff John Mayfield
Journey to the Unknown
Dr. Charles Wilson
Operation Cross Eagles
Sgt. Turley
Bomb at 10:10
Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
The Bedford Incident
Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
The Counterfeit Traitor
Harold Murray (uncredited)
Ghost Squad
Interpol Calling
Brownley
John Paul Jones
Sentry
Dial 999
The Camp on Blood Island
Lt. Peter Bellamy
A King in New York
Headmaster
Theatre Night
Sam Grassman
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Dr. Bryan Hayes
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Frank Rawlinson
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Obsession
Bill Kronin
Moonrise
Elmer - Soda Jerk
The Luck of the Irish
Tom Higginbotham
If You Knew Susie
Joe Collins
Johnny O'Clock
Phil, Hotel Clerk
The Killers
Nick Adams (uncredited)
State Fair
Harry Ware
Over 21
Frank MacDougal
The Jungle Captive
Don Young
The Impatient Years
Henry Fairchild
Weird Woman
David Jennings
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Roy Todwell
Pierre of the Plains
Val Denton
Hello, Annapolis
Kansas City
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
Joe Bingham
I Wanted Wings
Jimmy Masters