Phil Brown
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.
Acting
Movie
Star Wars
as Uncle Owen
1977
Movie
Superman
as State Senator
1978
Movie
Chaplin
as Projectionist
1992
Movie
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Virginia Senator
1976
Movie
The Killers
as Nick Adams (uncredited)
1946
Movie
A King in New York
as Headmaster
1957
Movie
The Bedford Incident
as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
1965
Movie
Valdez Is Coming
as Malson
1971
Movie
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Rev. Cartwright
1977
Movie
Moonrise
as Elmer - Soda Jerk
1948
Movie
State Fair
as Harry Ware
1945
Movie
Obsession
as Bill Kronin
1949
Movie
The Counterfeit Traitor
as Harold Murray (uncredited)
1962
Movie
Johnny O'Clock
as Phil, Hotel Clerk
1947
TV
Tales of the Unexpected
as F. Milton Willis
1979
TV
The Professionals
as Callahan
1977
TV
The Martian Chronicles
as Narrator
1980
Movie
The Romantic Englishwoman
as Mr. Wilson
1975
Movie
Weird Woman
as David Jennings
1944
Movie
The Luck of the Irish
as Tom Higginbotham
1948
Movie
The Camp on Blood Island
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
1958
Movie
Tropic of Cancer
as Van Norden
1970
Movie
Ooh...You Are Awful
as American Man
1972
Movie
The Jungle Captive
as Don Young
1945
