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.
Filmography
all 60
Movies 44
TV Shows 16
Director 3
Narrator 2
self 1
Starwoids (2001)
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming (1999)
Chaplin (1992)
Bomber Harris (1989)
Down in the Valley (1984)
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Oppenheimer (1980)
The Martian Chronicles (1980)
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
Superman (1978)
Maneaters Are Loose! (1978)
The Professionals (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
Scalawag (1973)
Ooh... You Are Awful (1972)
The Protectors (1972)
Valdez Is Coming (1971)
Togetherness (1970)
Tropic of Cancer (1970)
The Adding Machine (1969)
Land Raiders (1969)
Journey to the Unknown (1968)
Operation Cross Eagles (1968)
Bomb at 10:10 (1967)
The Boy Cried Murder (1966)
The Bedford Incident (1965)
Out of the Unknown (1965)
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Ben Casey (1961)
Ghost Squad (1961)
Interpol Calling (1959)
John Paul Jones (1959)
Dial 999 (1958)
The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
White Hunter (1957)
A King in New York (1957)
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1956)
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
The Harlem Globetrotters (1951)
Obsession (1949)
Moonrise (1948)
The Luck of the Irish (1948)
If You Knew Susie (1948)
Johnny O'Clock (1947)
The Killers (1946)
State Fair (1945)
Over 21 (1945)
The Jungle Captive (1945)
The Impatient Years (1944)
Weird Woman (1944)
Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
Pierre of the Plains (1942)
Hello, Annapolis (1942)
High Over the Borders (1942)
H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
I Wanted Wings (1941)
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GenderMale
Birthday1916-04-30
Deathday2006-02-09 (89 years old)
Birth PlaceCambridge, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsPhillip Walp Brown
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