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Starwoids

as Self

2001
Bomber Harris

as Lord Beaverbrook

1989
Scalawag

as Sandy

1973
Valdez Is Coming

as Malson

1971
The Camp on Blood Island

as Lt. Peter Bellamy

1958
A King in New York

as Headmaster

1957
Obsession

as Bill Kronin

1949
The Luck of the Irish

as Tom Higginbotham

1948
Johnny O'Clock

as Phil, Hotel Clerk

1947
The Jungle Captive

as Don Young

1945
Weird Woman

as David Jennings

1944
The Impatient Years

as Henry Fairchild

1944
Pierre of the Plains

as Val Denton

1942
Phil Brown Phil Brown

Birthday

1916-04-30

Place of Birth

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Biography

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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