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.
Star Wars
(Uncle Owen)
Calling Dr. Gillespie
(Roy Todwell)
The Bedford Incident
(Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay)
State Fair
(Harry Ware)
Obsession
(Bill Kronin)
Weird Woman
(David Jennings)
Johnny O'Clock
(Phil, Hotel Clerk)
Ooh... You Are Awful
(American Man)
Over 21
(Frank MacDougal)
Togetherness
(Everett)
The Camp on Blood Island
(Lt. Peter Bellamy)
Scalawag
(Sandy)
The Impatient Years
(Henry Fairchild)
The Luck of the Irish
(Tom Higginbotham)
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
(Joe Bingham)
The Jungle Captive
(Don Young)
Land Raiders
(Sheriff John Mayfield)
A King in New York
(Headmaster)
Bomber Harris
(Lord Beaverbrook)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(Rev. Cartwright)
The Adding Machine
(Don)
Chaplin
(Projectionist)
Maneaters Are Loose!
(Kevin Pennington)
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
Moonrise
(Elmer - Soda Jerk)
The Killers
(Nick Adams (uncredited))
Pierre of the Plains
(Val Denton)
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
(Clark)
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
(Council Elder)
If You Knew Susie
(Joe Collins)
Superman
(State Senator)
Hello, Annapolis
(Kansas City)
Operation Cross Eagles
(Sgt. Turley)
The Romantic Englishwoman
(Mr. Wilson)
Bomb at 10:10
(Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
(Virginia Senator)
Tropic of Cancer
(Van Norden)
Starwoids
(Self)
Valdez Is Coming
(Malson)
John Paul Jones
(Sentry)
The Counterfeit Traitor
(Harold Murray)
I Wanted Wings
(Jimmy Masters)
Out of the Unknown
Tales of the Unexpected
(F. Milton Willis)
The Martian Chronicles
(Narrator)
The Protectors
(Adam Markos)
Oppenheimer
(Lewis Strauss)
Interpol Calling
(Brownley)
Journey to the Unknown
Ben Casey
White Hunter
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
(Dr. Bryan Hayes)
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
(Frank Rawlinson)
Dial 999
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
(Gordon)
The Professionals
(Callahan)
