Phil Brown

Personal Info

Birthday

April 30, 1916

Day of Death

2006-02-09

(89 years old)

Place of Birth

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As

Phillip Walp Brown

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".

Known For

Star Wars

Tales of the Unexpected

The Professionals

Honest Trailers

Superman

The Protectors

The Martian Chronicles

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Filmography

2001
Starwoids
as Self
1999
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
as Council Elder
1992
Chaplin
as Projectionist
1989
Bomber Harris
as Lord Beaverbrook
1978
Superman
as State Senator
Maneaters Are Loose!
as Kevin Pennington
1977
Star Wars
as Uncle Owen
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Rev. Cartwright
1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Virginia Senator
1975
The Romantic Englishwoman
as Mr. Wilson
1973
Scalawag
as Sandy
1972
Ooh...You Are Awful
as American Man
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
as Clark
1971
Valdez Is Coming
as Malson
1970
Togetherness
as Everett
Tropic of Cancer
as Van Norden
1969
The Adding Machine
as Don
Land Raiders
as Sheriff John Mayfield
1968
Operation Cross Eagles
as Sgt. Turley
1967
Bomb at 10:10
as Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
1965
The Bedford Incident
as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
1962
The Counterfeit Traitor
as Harold Murray
1959
John Paul Jones
as Sentry
1958
The Camp on Blood Island
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
1957
A King in New York
as Headmaster
1949
Obsession
as Bill Kronin
1948
Moonrise
as Elmer - Soda Jerk
The Luck of the Irish
as Tom Higginbotham
If You Knew Susie
as Joe Collins
1947
Johnny O'Clock
as Phil, Hotel Clerk
1946
The Killers
as Nick Adams (uncredited)
1945
State Fair
as Harry Ware
Over 21
as Frank MacDougal
The Jungle Captive
as Don Young
1944
The Impatient Years
as Henry Fairchild
Weird Woman
as David Jennings
1942
Calling Dr. Gillespie
as Roy Todwell
Pierre of the Plains
as Val Denton
Hello, Annapolis
as Kansas City
1941
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
as Joe Bingham
I Wanted Wings
as Jimmy Masters