Acting · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · Born April 30, 1916
Philip Mortimer Brown was an American actor and director. 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.
MovieStarwoids
2001
as Self
MovieBattlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
1999
as Council Elder
MovieChaplin
1992
as Projectionist
MovieBomber Harris
1989
as Lord Beaverbrook
TVThe Fortunate Pilgrim
1988
as O
TVAmerican Playhouse
1982
as Lewis Strauss
TVWinston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
TVOppenheimer
1980
as Lewis Strauss
TVThe Martian Chronicles
1980
as Narrator
TVTales of the Unexpected
1979
as F. Milton Willis
MovieSuperman
1978
as State Senator
MovieManeaters Are Loose!
1978
as Kevin Pennington
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1978
as Jeremiah Cobb
TVThe Professionals
1977
as Callahan
MovieStar Wars
1977
as Uncle Owen
MovieTwilight's Last Gleaming
1977
as Rev. Cartwright
MovieThe Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976
as Virginia Senator
MovieThe Romantic Englishwoman
1975
as Mr. Wilson
MovieScalawag
1973
as Sandy
MovieOoh...You Are Awful
1972
as American Man
MovieThe Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1972
as Clark
TVThe Protectors
1972
as Adam Markos
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
1972
MovieValdez Is Coming
1971
as Malson
MovieTogetherness
1970
as Everett
MovieTropic of Cancer
1970
as Van Norden
MovieThe Adding Machine
1969
as Don
MovieLand Raiders
1969
as Sheriff John Mayfield
TVJourney to the Unknown
1968
as Dr. Charles Wilson
MovieOperation Cross Eagles
1968
as Sgt. Turley
MovieBomb at 10:10
1967
as Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
MovieThe Bedford Incident
1965
as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
MovieThe Counterfeit Traitor
1962
as Harold Murray (uncredited)
TVInterpol Calling
1959
as Brownley
MovieJohn Paul Jones
1959
as Sentry
TVDial 999
1958
MovieThe Camp on Blood Island
1958
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
White Hunter
1957
MovieA King in New York
1957
as Headmaster
TVTheatre Night
1957
as Sam Grassman
TVColonel March of Scotland Yard
1956
as Dr. Bryan Hayes
TVThe Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955
as Frank Rawlinson
MovieObsession
1949
as Bill Kronin
MovieMoonrise
1948
as Elmer - Soda Jerk
MovieThe Luck of the Irish
1948
as Tom Higginbotham
MovieIf You Knew Susie
1948
as Joe Collins
MovieJohnny O'Clock
1947
as Phil, Hotel Clerk
MovieThe Killers
1946
as Nick Adams (uncredited)
MovieState Fair
1945
as Harry Ware
MovieOver 21
1945
as Frank MacDougal
MovieThe Jungle Captive
1945
as Don Young
MovieThe Impatient Years
1944
as Henry Fairchild
MovieWeird Woman
1944
as David Jennings
MovieCalling Dr. Gillespie
1942
as Roy Todwell
MoviePierre of the Plains
1942
as Val Denton
MovieHello, Annapolis
1942
as Kansas City
MovieH.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941
as Joe Bingham
MovieI Wanted Wings
1941
as Jimmy Masters
