Phil Brown

Biography

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 a…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Star Wars (1977) — Uncle Owen
2. Superman (1978) — State Senator
3. Chaplin (1992) — Projectionist
4. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) — Virginia Senator
5. The Killers (1946) — Nick Adams (uncredited)
6. A King in New York (1957) — Headmaster
7. The Bedford Incident (1965) — Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
8. Valdez Is Coming (1971) — Malson
9. Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) — Rev. Cartwright
10. Moonrise (1948) — Elmer - Soda Jerk
11. State Fair (1945) — Harry Ware
12. Obsession (1949) — Bill Kronin
13. The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) — Harold Murray (uncredited)
14. Johnny O'Clock (1947) — Phil, Hotel Clerk
15. Tales of the Unexpected (1979) — F. Milton Willis
16. The Professionals (1977) — Callahan
17. The Martian Chronicles (1980) — Narrator
18. The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) — Mr. Wilson
19. Weird Woman (1944) — David Jennings
20. The Luck of the Irish (1948) — Tom Higginbotham
21. The Camp on Blood Island (1958) — Lt. Peter Bellamy
22. Tropic of Cancer (1970) — Van Norden
23. Ooh...You Are Awful (1972) — American Man
24. The Jungle Captive (1945) — Don Young
25. John Paul Jones (1959) — Sentry
26. The Protectors (1972) — Adam Markos
27. Oppenheimer (1980) — Lewis Strauss
28. Scalawag (1973) — Sandy
29. H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) — Joe Bingham
30. The Impatient Years (1944) — Henry Fairchild
31. Land Raiders (1969) — Sheriff John Mayfield
32. I Wanted Wings (1941) — Jimmy Masters
33. Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1956) — Dr. Bryan Hayes
34. American Playhouse (1982) — Lewis Strauss
35. Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942) — Roy Todwell
36. Pierre of the Plains (1942) — Val Denton
37. Operation Cross Eagles (1968) — Sgt. Turley
38. Over 21 (1945) — Frank MacDougal
39. The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955) — Frank Rawlinson
40. Bomb at 10:10 (1967) — Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić

Directed

1. Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1956) — Director
2. Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951) — Director
3. Ghost Squad (1961) — Director
4. Theatre '70 (1960) — Director