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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 oβ¦
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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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Starwoids
as Self
Chaplin
as Projectionist
Bomber Harris
as Lord Beaverbrook
Superman
as State Senator
Maneaters Are Loose!
as Kevin Pennington
Star Wars
as Uncle Owen
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Rev. Cartwright
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Virginia Senator
The Romantic Englishwoman
as Mr. Wilson
Scalawag
as Sandy
Ooh...You Are Awful
as American Man
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
as Clark
No Poster
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
Valdez Is Coming
as Malson
Togetherness
as Everett
Tropic of Cancer
as Van Norden
The Adding Machine
as Don
Land Raiders
as Sheriff John Mayfield
Operation Cross Eagles
as Sgt. Turley
Bomb at 10:10
as Professor Pilich / Profesor PiliΔ
The Bedford Incident
as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
The Counterfeit Traitor
as Harold Murray (uncredited)
John Paul Jones
as Sentry
The Camp on Blood Island
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
A King in New York
as Headmaster
Obsession
as Bill Kronin
Moonrise
as Elmer - Soda Jerk
The Luck of the Irish
as Tom Higginbotham
If You Knew Susie
as Joe Collins
Johnny O'Clock
as Phil, Hotel Clerk
The Killers
as Nick Adams (uncredited)
State Fair
as Harry Ware
Over 21
as Frank MacDougal
The Jungle Captive
as Don Young
The Impatient Years
as Henry Fairchild
Weird Woman
as David Jennings
Calling Dr. Gillespie
as Roy Todwell
Pierre of the Plains
as Val Denton
Hello, Annapolis
as Kansas City
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Joe Bingham
I Wanted Wings
as Jimmy Masters