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Phil Brown Died at age: 89

Actor | Producer

    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 play

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    Starwoids

    Self ( Actor )

    ... 2001

    Chaplin

    Projectionist ( Actor )

    ... 1992

    Bomber Harris

    Lord Beaverbrook ( Actor )

    ... 1989

Fullname:

Phil Brown

Date of Birth:

Apr 30, 1916

Country of birth:

Massachusetts

Died:

Feb 09, 2006

Biography of

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.

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Phil Brown

Found 40 Movies in total

Starwoids

Self ( Actor )

... 2001

Chaplin

Projectionist ( Actor )

... 1992

Bomber Harris

Lord Beaverbrook ( Actor )

... 1989

Superman

State Senator (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1978

Maneaters Are Loose!

Kevin Pennington ( Actor )

... 1978

Star Wars

Uncle Owen ( Actor )

... 1977

Twilight's Last Gleaming

Rev. Cartwright ( Actor )

... 1977

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Virginia Senator ( Actor )

... 1976

The Romantic Englishwoman

Mr. Wilson ( Actor )

... 1975

Scalawag

Sandy ( Actor )

... 1973

Ooh... You Are Awful

American Man ( Actor )

... 1972

... 1972

Valdez Is Coming

Malson ( Actor )

... 1971

Togetherness

Everett ( Actor )

... 1970

Tropic of Cancer

Van Norden ( Actor )

... 1970

The Adding Machine

Don ( Actor )

... 1969

Land Raiders

Sheriff John Mayfield ( Actor )

... 1969

Operation Cross Eagles

Sgt. Turley ( Actor )

... 1968

Bomb at 10:10

Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić ( Actor )

... 1967

The Bedford Incident

Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay ( Actor )

... 1965

The Counterfeit Traitor

Harold Murray ( Actor )

... 1962

John Paul Jones

Sentry ( Actor )

... 1959

The Camp on Blood Island

Lt. Peter Bellamy ( Actor )

... 1958

A King in New York

Headmaster ( Actor )

... 1957

Obsession

Bill Kronin ( Actor )

Dialogue Coach

... 1949

Moonrise

Elmer - Soda Jerk ( Actor )

... 1948

The Luck of the Irish

Tom Higginbotham ( Actor )

... 1948

If You Knew Susie

Joe Collins ( Actor )

... 1948

Johnny O'Clock

Phil, Hotel Clerk ( Actor )

... 1947

The Killers

Nick Adams (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

State Fair

Harry Ware ( Actor )

... 1945

Over 21

Frank MacDougal ( Actor )

... 1945

The Jungle Captive

Don Young ( Actor )

Dialogue Coach

... 1945

The Impatient Years

Henry Fairchild ( Actor )

... 1944

Weird Woman

David Jennings ( Actor )

... 1944

Calling Dr. Gillespie

Roy Todwell ( Actor )

... 1942

Pierre of the Plains

Val Denton ( Actor )

... 1942

Hello, Annapolis

Kansas City ( Actor )

... 1942

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Joe Bingham ( Actor )

... 1941

I Wanted Wings

Jimmy Masters ( Actor )

... 1941