Phil Brown
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.
Fotos
Películas (41)
Starwoids
2001 · Self
Chaplin
1992 · Projectionist
Bomber Harris
1989 · Lord Beaverbrook
Superman
1978 · State Senator
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978 · Kevin Pennington
Star Wars
1977 · Uncle Owen
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977 · Rev. Cartwright
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976 · Virginia Senator
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975 · Mr. Wilson
Scalawag
1973 · Sandy
Ooh...You Are Awful
1972 · American Man
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1972 · Clark
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
1972
Valdez Is Coming
1971 · Malson
Togetherness
1970 · Everett
Tropic of Cancer
1970 · Van Norden
The Adding Machine
1969 · Don
Land Raiders
1969 · Sheriff John Mayfield
Operation Cross Eagles
1968 · Sgt. Turley
Bomb at 10:10
1967 · Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
The Bedford Incident
1965 · Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
The Counterfeit Traitor
1962 · Harold Murray (uncredited)
John Paul Jones
1959 · Sentry
The Camp on Blood Island
1958 · Lt. Peter Bellamy
A King in New York
1957 · Headmaster
Obsession
1949 · Bill Kronin, Dialogue Coach
Moonrise
1948 · Elmer - Soda Jerk
The Luck of the Irish
1948 · Tom Higginbotham
If You Knew Susie
1948 · Joe Collins
Johnny O'Clock
1947 · Phil, Hotel Clerk
The Killers
1946 · Nick Adams (uncredited)
State Fair
1945 · Harry Ware
Over 21
1945 · Frank MacDougal
The Jungle Captive
1945 · Don Young, Dialogue Coach
The Impatient Years
1944 · Henry Fairchild
Weird Woman
1944 · David Jennings
Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942 · Roy Todwell
Pierre of the Plains
1942 · Val Denton
Hello, Annapolis
1942 · Kansas City
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · Joe Bingham
I Wanted Wings
1941 · Jimmy Masters
Series (20)
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988 · O
American Playhouse
1982 · Lewis Strauss, Frank Karelsen
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
Oppenheimer
1980 · Lewis Strauss
The Martian Chronicles
1980 · Narrator
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · F. Milton Willis
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1978 · Jeremiah Cobb
The Professionals
1977 · Callahan
The Protectors
1972 · Adam Markos
Journey to the Unknown
1968 · Dr. Charles Wilson
The Troubleshooters
1965 · Harry Tobin
Ghost Squad
1961 · Director
Theatre '70
1960 · Director
Interpol Calling
1959 · Brownley
Dial 999
1958
White Hunter
1957
Theatre Night
1957 · Sam Grassman
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956 · Dr. Bryan Hayes, Gordon, Director
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955 · Frank Rawlinson
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Director