Brown, Phil, 1916-2006

LC control no.	no 93035635
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Brown, Phil, 1916-2006 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1916-04-30
Death date	2006-02-09
Place of birth	Cambridge (Mass.)
Place of death	Woodland Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Profession or occupation	Actors
Found in	Johnny O'Clock, 1946: credits (with Phil Brown) Halliwell's filmgoer's comp., 1988 (Brown, Phil; b. 1916) W was W on screen, 1977 (Brown, Phil; d. July 11, 1973; screen actor) Guardian unlimited WWW site, May 8, 2006 (Phil Brown, actor and director; b. Apr. 30, 1916, Cambridge, Mass.; d. Feb. 9, 2006) Internet movie database, May 8, 2006 (Phil Brown; b. Apr. 30, 1916, Cambridge, Mass.; d. Feb. 9, 2006, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles; actor, director) Wikipedia, May 24, 2016 (Phil Brown (actor); Philip Mortimer Brown (April 30, 1916-February 9, 2006) was an American actor; Brown was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts; he majored in dramatics at Stanford University, where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity; Brown played some of his earliest stage roles as part of New York' Group Theatre; when it ended, he and other Group Theatre veterans headed to Hollywood, where Brown worked in motion pictures and helped found the Actors' Laboratory; in 1946, he played Ernest Hemingway's protagonist Nick Adams in Robert Siodmak's version of The 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 (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)
Associated language	eng