Phil Brown
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In films from the early 1940s, American actor Phil Brown held down supporting roles in most of his Hollywood films. Brown was eighth-billed as Jimmy Brown in his earliest screen credit, the Paramount aviation epic I Wanted Wings (1941). He was disturbingly convincing as a homicidal maniac in Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942), snapping from normality to viciousness within seconds in several scenes. In The Killers (1946), Brown played Nick Adams, who in the Hemingway story on which the film was based was the narrator but who wound up with little more than a bystander part in the film's opening scene. Moving to Europe in 1950, Brown was put to good use as the victim of a jealous husband in the British-filmed Obsession (1949), released in America as The Hidden Room. Phil Brown remained in England and the Continent for the balance of his career. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviFilmography:
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Phil Brown (actor)
For other people named Phil Brown, see Phil Brown (disambiguation).
| Phil Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born | Philip Brown April 30, 1916 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Died | February 9, 2006 (aged 89) Woodland Hills, California |
| Years active | 1941–1999 |
| Spouse | Virginia Brown (1940-2006) (his death) 1 child |
| Website | |
| http://www.philbrown.com | |
Philip Brown (April 30, 1916 - February 9, 2006) 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, 2 months before his 90th birthday.
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Mentioned in
Live 1952, Vol. 1
(1952 Album by Stan Getz)
Ragtime to Jazz, Vol. 2: 1916-1922
(1997 Album by Various Artists)
Calling Dr. Gillespie
(1942 Crime Film)
Pierre of the Plains
(1942 Western Film)
Jan Davis
(World Artist, '80s-2000s)
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