Phil Brown

Known for ActingBorn 1916-04-30Died 2006-02-09Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Maneaters Are Loose!

Star Wars

Hello, Annapolis

Bomber Harris

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The Professionals

Chaplin

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Superman

The Martian Chronicles

Interpol Calling

The Killers

If You Knew Susie

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Journey to the Unknown

The Bedford Incident

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

White Hunter

Tales of the Unexpected

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Oppenheimer

Calling Dr. Gillespie

American Playhouse

The Adding Machine

Starwoids

A King in New York

Obsession

The Camp on Blood Island

Twilight's Last Gleaming

Over 21

The Fortunate Pilgrim

The Counterfeit Traitor

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

State Fair

Valdez Is Coming

The Impatient Years

The Protectors

Moonrise

Johnny O'Clock

Scalawag

The Luck of the Irish

Ghost Squad

John Paul Jones

Weird Woman

Land Raiders

Bomb at 10:10

Operation Cross Eagles