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Phil Brown
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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…
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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.
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2001
Starwoids
Movie Self
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1992
Chaplin
Movie Projectionist
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1989
Bomber Harris
Movie Lord Beaverbrook
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1988
The Fortunate Pilgrim
TV show O
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Lewis Strauss
- 1981
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1980
Oppenheimer
TV show Lewis Strauss
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1980
The Martian Chronicles
TV show Narrator
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1979
Tales of the Unexpected
TV show F. Milton Willis
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1978
Superman
Movie State Senator
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1978
Maneaters Are Loose!
Movie Kevin Pennington
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1978
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
TV show Jeremiah Cobb
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1977
The Professionals
TV show Callahan
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1977
Star Wars
Movie Uncle Owen
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1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Movie Rev. Cartwright
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1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Movie Virginia Senator
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1975
The Romantic Englishwoman
Movie Mr. Wilson
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1973
Scalawag
Movie Sandy
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1972
Ooh...You Are Awful
Movie American Man
- 1972
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1972
The Protectors
TV show Adam Markos
- 1972
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1971
Valdez Is Coming
Movie Malson
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1970
Togetherness
Movie Everett
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1970
Tropic of Cancer
Movie Van Norden
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1969
The Adding Machine
Movie Don
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1969
Land Raiders
Movie Sheriff John Mayfield
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1968
Journey to the Unknown
TV show Dr. Charles Wilson
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1968
Operation Cross Eagles
Movie Sgt. Turley
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1967
Bomb at 10:10
Movie Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
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1965
The Bedford Incident
Movie Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
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1962
The Counterfeit Traitor
Movie Harold Murray (uncredited)
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1961
Ghost Squad
TV show Director
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1960
Theatre '70
TV show Director
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1959
Interpol Calling
TV show Brownley
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1959
John Paul Jones
Movie Sentry
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1958
Dial 999
TV show
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1958
The Camp on Blood Island
Movie Lt. Peter Bellamy
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1957
White Hunter
TV show
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1957
A King in New York
Movie Headmaster
