Phil Brown

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1916-04-30 (90 years old)

Deathday

2006-02-09

Place of Birth

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Phil Brown

Biography

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 h...

Acting

1977

Star Wars

as Uncle Owen

1942

Calling Dr. Gillespie

as Roy Todwell

1965

The Bedford Incident

as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay

1945

State Fair

as Harry Ware

1949

Obsession

as Bill Kronin

1944

Weird Woman

as David Jennings

1947

Johnny O'Clock

as Phil, Hotel Clerk

1972

Ooh...You Are Awful

as American Man

1945

Over 21

as Frank MacDougal

1970

Togetherness

as Everett

1958

The Camp on Blood Island

as Lt. Peter Bellamy

1973

Scalawag

as Sandy

1944

The Impatient Years

as Henry Fairchild

1948

The Luck of the Irish

as Tom Higginbotham

1941

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

as Joe Bingham

1945

The Jungle Captive

as Don Young

1969

Land Raiders

as Sheriff John Mayfield

1957

A King in New York

as Headmaster

1989

Bomber Harris

as Lord Beaverbrook

1977

Twilight's Last Gleaming

as Rev. Cartwright

1992

Chaplin

as Projectionist

1978

Maneaters Are Loose!

as Kevin Pennington

1948

Moonrise

as Elmer - Soda Jerk

1946

The Killers

as Nick Adams (uncredited)

1942

1948

If You Knew Susie

as Joe Collins

1978

Superman

as State Senator

1942

Hello, Annapolis

as Kansas City

1968

1975

1967

Bomb at 10:10

as Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić

1976

1970

Tropic of Cancer

as Van Norden

2001

Starwoids

as Self

1971

1959

1962

The Counterfeit Traitor

as Harold Murray

1941

I Wanted Wings

as Jimmy Masters

Production

1945

The Jungle Captive

as Dialogue Coach

1949

Obsession

as Dialogue Coach

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