Phil Brown
Acteur, Regisseur, Producer
30 april 1916 — 9 februari 2006 (89 years)
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
Filmography
| 1999 | Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming · as Council Elder |
| 1992 | Chaplin · as Projectionist |
| 1992 | Shortland Street · as Hamish Flynn / Richard Minogue |
| 1989 | Bomber Harris · as Lord Beaverbrook |
| 1988 | Game, Set, and Match · as Lange Koby |
| 1988 | The Fortunate Pilgrim · as O |
| 1984 | Master of the game · as Governer |
| 1981 | |
| 1980 | American Playhouse · as Frank Karelsen |
| 1980 | Oppenheimer · as Lewis Strauss |
| 1980 | The Martian Chronicles · as Narrator |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected · as F. Milton Willis |
| 1978 | Superman · as State Senator |
| 1978 | Maneaters Are Loose! · as Kevin Pennington |
| 1977 | The Professionals · as CallahanOp Plex |
| 1977 | Silver Bears · as American Banker |
| 1977 | Star Wars · as Uncle Owen |
| 1977 | Twilight's Last Gleaming · as Rev. Cartwright |
| 1976 | The Pink Panther Strikes Again · as Virginia Senator |
| 1975 | The Romantic Englishwoman · as Mr. WilsonOp Plex |
| 1973 | Peg Leg, Musket & Sabre · as Sandy |
| 1972 | Get Charlie Tully · as American Man |
| 1972 | The Protectors · as Adam Markos |
| 1971 | Valdez Is Coming · as Malson |
| 1970 | Togetherness · as EverettOp Plex |
| 1970 | Tropic of Cancer · as Van Norden |
| 1969 | Land Raiders · as Sheriff John Mayfield |
| 1969 | The Adding Machine · as Don |
| 1968 | |
| 1968 | Operation Cross Eagles · as Sgt. Turley |
| 1967 | Bomb at 10:10 · as Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić |
| 1966 | The Boy Cried Murder · as Tom Durrant |
| 1965 | The Bedford Incident · as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay |
| 1965 | Court Martial · as Prosecutor |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters · as Harry Tobin |
| 1962 | The Counterfeit Traitor · as Harold Murray (uncredited) |
| 1959 | The Four Just Men · as Albert Peterson |
| 1959 | Interpol Calling · as Brownley |
| 1959 | Bonanza · as Wade TuckerOp Plex |
| 1959 | John Paul Jones · as Sentry |
| 1958 | |
| 1958 | The Camp on Blood Island · as Lt. Peter Bellamy |
| 1958 | The Cross-Road Gallows · as Kovacs |
| 1958 | Print of Death · as Kovacs |
| 1957 | A King in New York · as HeadmasterOp Plex |
| 1957 | Theatre Night · as Sam Grassman |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre · as John Sloan |
| 1955 | ITV Play of the Week · as Daddy |
| 1955 | The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel · as Frank Rawlinson |
| 1954 | Colonel March of Scotland Yard · as Dr. Bryan Hayes |
| 1954 | The Vise · as Vince Menotti |
| 1954 | The Green Scarf · as John Bell |
| 1953 | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents · as George |
| 1950 | Sunday Night Theatre · as Nils Dayton |
| 1949 | Give Us This Day · as Bit Part |
| 1949 | The Hidden Room · as Bill Kronin |
| 1948 | Moonrise · as Elmer - Soda JerkOp Plex |
| 1948 | The Luck of the Irish · as Tom Higginbotham |
| 1948 | If You Knew Susie · as Joe Collins |
| 1947 | Johnny O'Clock · as Phil, Hotel Clerk |
| 1946 | The Killers · as Nick Adams (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Without Reservations · as Soldier |
| 1945 | State Fair · as Harry Ware |
| 1945 | Over 21 · as Frank Macdougal |
| 1945 | The Jungle Captive · as Don Young |
| 1944 | The Impatient Years · as Henry Fairchild |
| 1944 | Weird Woman · as David Jennings |
| 1942 | Calling Dr. Gillespie · as Roy Todwell |
| 1942 | Pierre of the Plains · as Val Denton |
| 1942 | Hello, Annapolis · as Kansas City |
| 1942 | High Over the Borders · as Narrator |
| 1941 | H.M. Pulham, Esq. · as Joe Bingham |
| 1941 | I Wanted Wings · as Jimmy Masters |
| 1963 | |
| 1961 | |
| 1955 |
| 2002 | |
| 2001 | Starwoids · as Self |