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name: "Phil Brown"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/phil-brown"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 April 1916"
died: "9 February 2006"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:19:52.549480+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Phil Brown

Actor. Born 30 April 1916 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Died 9 February 2006.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 April 1916, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- **Died:** 9 February 2006
- **Also known as:** Phillip Walp Brown, Philip Mortimer Brown

## Biography

Phil Brown was an American actor. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied dramatics at Stanford University and began his stage career with New York's Group Theatre. After moving to Hollywood he appeared in films including *The Killers* (1946) and helped establish the Actors' Laboratory.

Blacklisted in 1952, Brown relocated to England in 1953 and worked there in theatre, television and film, also directing for stage and screen, until returning to the United States in the 1990s. He is best known for playing Uncle Owen in *Star Wars* (1977). Other screen credits include *The Pink Panther Strikes Again* (1976), *Superman* (1978) and *Chaplin* (1992). Brown died in 2006.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Star Wars* (1977), Fi1m 88, as Uncle Owen — [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars.md)

## Also known for

- *Superman* (1978), State Senator
- *Chaplin* (1992), Projectionist
- *The Pink Panther Strikes Again* (1976), Virginia Senator
- *The Killers* (1946), Nick Adams (uncredited)
- *A King in New York* (1957), Headmaster
- *The Bedford Incident* (1965), Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
- *Valdez Is Coming* (1971), Malson
- *Twilight's Last Gleaming* (1977), Rev. Cartwright

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