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Philip Mortimer Brown (April 30, 1916 – February 9, 2006) was an American actor.[1]

Phil Brown
Trailer for Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
Born	Philip Mortimer Brown (1916-04-30)April 30, 1916 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	February 9, 2006(2006-02-09) (aged 89) Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
Years active	1941–1999
Spouse(s)	Virginia Brown ​ ​ (m. 1940)​
Children	1
Website	www.philbrown.com

Early life

Brown was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1916. He majored in dramatics at Stanford University, where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.[2]

Career

Brown played some of his first roles on stage when he joined the Group Theatre in New York City.[3] The Group Theatre eventually closed, and many of its members relocated to Hollywood, where Brown helped found the Actors' Laboratory Theatre. He found his first cinema roles here, making his motion picture debut in Mitchell Leisen's 1941 war movie, I Wanted Wings.[4]

In 1946, he played Ernest Hemingway's protagonist Nick Adams in Robert Siodmak's version of The Killers, alongside William Conrad and Charles McGraw as the titular "killers".[5]

In 1948, he played Tom in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, at the Haymarket Theatre London, in a production directed by John Gielgud.[6]

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.[7] Although he was not a communist, Brown was blacklisted in 1952, and was eventually compelled to relocate with his family to the United Kingdom between 1953 and 1993.^{[citation needed]}[8]

Overseas he was able to resume acting on stage, TV and films; he also directed for the stage and TV.[1][9] He was best known for his role as Luke Skywalker's uncle, Owen Lars, in Star Wars (1977).[7][10]

He returned to the United States in the 1990s and in later years made the rounds of autograph shows.[11]

Death

Phil Brown died in his sleep of pneumonia on February 9, 2006 at the age of 89,[12] two months shy of his 90th birthday.[9]

Legacy

His wife Ginny survives him with their son; two grandchildren and a great-grandchild.[9]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1941	I Wanted Wings	Jimmy Masters
1941	H. M. Pulham, Esq.	Joe Bingham
1942	Hello, Annapolis	Kansas City
1942	Calling Dr. Gillespie	Roy Todwell
1942	Pierre of the Plains	Val Denton
1944	Weird Woman	David Jennings
1944	The Impatient Years	Henry Fairchild
1945	The Jungle Captive	Don Young
1945	Over 21	Frank MacDougal
1945	State Fair	Harry Ware
1946	Without Reservations	Soldier
1946	The Killers	Nick Adams	Uncredited
1947	Johnny O'Clock	Phil, Hotel Clerk
1948	If You Knew Susie	Joe Collins
1948	The Luck of the Irish	Tom Higginbotham
1948	Moonrise	Elmer - Soda Jerk
1949	Obsession	Bill Kronin
1949	Give Us This Day	Bit part	Uncredited
1954	The Green Scarf	John Bell
1957	A King in New York	Headmaster
1958	The Camp on Blood Island	Lt. Peter Bellamy
1959	John Paul Jones	Sentry
1962	The Counterfeit Traitor	Harold Murray	Uncredited
1965	The Bedford Incident	Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
1966	The Boy Cried Murder	Tom Durrant
1967	Bomb at 10:10	Professor Pilic
1968	Operation Cross Eagles	Sgt. Turley
1969	The Adding Machine	Don
1970	Land Raiders	Sheriff John Mayfield
1970	Tropic of Cancer	Van Norden
1970	Togetherness	Everett
1971	Valdez Is Coming	Malson
1972	Ooh... You Are Awful	American Man
1973	Scalawag	Sandy
1975	The Romantic Englishwoman	Mr. Wilson
1976	The Pink Panther Strikes Again	Virginia Senator
1977	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Rev. Cartwright
1977	Star Wars	Owen Lars
1978	Silver Bears	American Banker
1978	Superman	State senator (Missile Control)
1992	Chaplin	Projectionist
1999	Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming	Council Elder	Short, (final film role)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Oppenheimer	Lewis Strauss	2 episodes
1981	Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years	Lord Beaverbrook	2 episodes
1988	The Fortunate Pilgrim	Supervisor F/O

References

External links

• Official website
• Phil Brown at IMDb
• Phil Brown at the Internet Broadway Database
• Phil Brown at AllMovie

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