1916-04-30 ( 108 years old ) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Movies
Starwoids
2001-01-01
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
1999-01-01
Chaplin
1992-12-17
Bomber Harris
1989-09-03
Superman
1978-12-14
Maneaters Are Loose!
1978-05-03
Star Wars
1977-05-25
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977-02-09
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976-12-15
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975-06-11
Scalawag
1973-04-22
Ooh... You Are Awful
1972-12-01
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
1972-06-25
Valdez Is Coming
1971-04-09
Togetherness
1970-09-13
Tropic of Cancer
1970-02-27
The Adding Machine
1969-09-23
Land Raiders
1969-07-27
Operation Cross Eagles
1968-01-01
Bomb at 10:10
1967-07-12
The Bedford Incident
1965-10-11
The Counterfeit Traitor
1962-04-17
John Paul Jones
1959-06-16
The Camp on Blood Island
1958-04-15
A King in New York
1957-09-12
Obsession
1949-08-03
Moonrise
1948-10-01
The Luck of the Irish
1948-09-15
If You Knew Susie
1948-02-07
Johnny O'Clock
1947-01-07
The Killers
1946-08-30
State Fair
1945-08-29
Over 21
1945-08-08
The Jungle Captive
1945-06-25
The Impatient Years
1944-09-10
Weird Woman
1944-03-01
Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942-08-01
Pierre of the Plains
1942-07-29
Hello, Annapolis
1942-04-23
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941-12-04
I Wanted Wings
1941-03-26
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