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.
1977 • Movie
1977 • TV
1979 • TV
1955 • TV
1978 • Movie
1965 • TV
as Uncle Owen
as State Senator
as Projectionist
as David Jennings
as Bill Kronin
as Kansas City
as Lord Beaverbrook
as Self
as Sandy
as Everett
as Virginia Senator
as Nick Adams (uncredited)
as Jimmy Masters
as Sentry
as Headmaster
as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
as Malson
as Rev. Cartwright
as Harold Murray (uncredited)
as Elmer - Soda Jerk
as Callahan
1 episodes
as F. Milton Willis
1 episodes
as Frank Rawlinson
1 episodes
1 episodes
as Adam Markos
1 episodes
as Brownley
1 episodes
1 episodes
as Dr. Bryan Hayes
1 episodes
as Gordon
1 episodes
as Narrator
3 episodes
as O
2 episodes
as Sam Grassman
1 episodes
as Lewis Strauss
7 episodes
2 episodes
1 episodes
1 episodes
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