Phil Brown
- Recitazione
- 30 aprile 1916 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- 9 febbraio 2006
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Starwoids · In persona
- Charlot - Chaplin · Projectionist
- Bomber Harris · Lord Beaverbrook
- Mamma Lucia · O
- American Playhouse · Lewis Strauss, Frank Karelsen
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
- Oppenheimer · Lewis Strauss
- Cronache marziane · Narrator
- Il brivido dell'imprevisto · F. Milton Willis
- Superman · State Senator
- Maneaters Are Loose! · Kevin Pennington
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm · Jeremiah Cobb
- I professionals · Callahan
- Guerre stellari · Uncle Owen
- Ultimi bagliori di un crepuscolo · Rev. Cartwright
- La Pantera Rosa sfida l'ispettore Clouseau · Virginia Senator
- Una romantica donna inglese · Mr. Wilson
- Un magnifico ceffo da galera · Sandy
- Ooh...You Are Awful · American Man
- The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui · Clark
- The Protectors · Adam Markos
- The Curse of a Faithful Wife
- Io sono Valdez · Malson
- Togetherness · Everett
- Tropico del Cancro · Van Norden
- The Adding Machine · Don
- Bruciatelo vivo! · Sheriff John Mayfield
- Journey to the Unknown · Dr. Charles Wilson
- Operazione aquila · Sgt. Turley
- Ore 10,10 attentato · Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
- Stato d'allarme · Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
- Il falso traditore · Harold Murray (uncredited)
- Ghost Squad · Regia
- Theatre '70 · Regia
- Interpol Calling · Brownley
- Il grande capitano · Sentry
- Dial 999
- L'isola dei disperati · Lt. Peter Bellamy
- White Hunter
- Un re a New York · Headmaster
- Theatre Night · Sam Grassman
- Colonnello March · Dr. Bryan Hayes, Gordon
- The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel · Frank Rawlinson
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars · Regia
- Vendico il tuo peccato · Bill Kronin, Dialogue Coach
- La luna sorge · Elmer - Soda Jerk
- L'isola del desiderio · Tom Higginbotham
- Tutti conoscono Susanna · Joe Collins
- A sangue freddo · Phil, Hotel Clerk
- I gangsters · Nick Adams (uncredited)
- State Fair · Harry Ware
- Over 21 · Frank MacDougal
- The Jungle Captive · Don Young, Dialogue Coach
- The Impatient Years · Henry Fairchild
- Weird Woman · David Jennings
- Calling Dr. Gillespie · Roy Todwell
- Pierre of the Plains · Val Denton
- Hello, Annapolis · Kansas City
- Il molto onorevole Mr. Pulham · Joe Bingham
- I cavalieri del cielo · Jimmy Masters