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Phillip Walp Brown
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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1916-04-30
- event Death Date 2006-02-09
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 2.2
- info Birth Place Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Phil Brown
8.2
Star Wars
1977-05-25
6.4
Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942-08-01
6.9
The Bedford Incident
1965-10-11
6.6
State Fair
1945-08-29
6.8
Obsession
1949-08-03
6.1
Weird Woman
1944-03-01
6.1
Johnny O'Clock
1947-01-07
4.8
Ooh... You Are Awful
1972-12-01
4.7
Over 21
1945-08-08
3
Togetherness
1970-09-13
6.6
The Camp on Blood Island
1958-04-15
5.5
Scalawag
1973-04-22
6.3
The Impatient Years
1944-09-10
5.7
The Luck of the Irish
1948-09-15
6.8
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941-12-04
5.5
The Jungle Captive
1945-06-25
5.1
Land Raiders
1969-07-27
6.8
A King in New York
1957-09-12
6.8
Bomber Harris
1989-09-03
6.4
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977-02-09
5.5
The Adding Machine
1969-09-23
7.4
Chaplin
1992-12-17
0
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978-05-03
0
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
1972-06-25
6.2
Moonrise
1948-10-01
7.4
The Killers
1946-08-30
4.2
Pierre of the Plains
1942-07-29
0
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1972-11-07
7.6
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
1999-01-01
7.5
If You Knew Susie
1948-02-07
7.2
Superman
1978-12-14
10
Hello, Annapolis
1942-04-23
5.2
Operation Cross Eagles
1968-01-01
5.5
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975-06-11
4.8
Bomb at 10:10
1967-07-12
6.9
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976-12-15
4.6
Tropic of Cancer
1970-02-27
5.5
Starwoids
2001-01-01
6.2
Valdez Is Coming
1971-04-09
6.1
John Paul Jones
1959-06-16
6.5
The Counterfeit Traitor
1962-04-17
5.1
I Wanted Wings
1941-03-26
6.8
Out of the Unknown
1965-10-04
6.7
Tales of the Unexpected
1979-03-24
6.9
The Martian Chronicles
1980-01-15
5.7
The Protectors
1972-09-29
6.7
Oppenheimer
1980-10-29
6.7
Interpol Calling
1959-09-13
6.3
Journey to the Unknown
1968-09-26
5.7
Ben Casey
1961-10-02
0
White Hunter
1957-10-12
5
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981-09-06
7.3
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956-02-22
7.6
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955-09-28
0
Dial 999
1958-07-06
7.3
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956-02-22
7.4
The Professionals
1977-12-30
5
The Fortunate Pilgrim
1988-04-03
