- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 30, 1916
- Place of Birth
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Died
- February 9, 2006
Phil Brown
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 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 …
Filmography
movieStarwoids
2001 · Self
movieBattlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
1999 · Council Elder
movieChaplin
1992 · Projectionist
movieBomber Harris
1989 · Lord Beaverbrook
tvThe Fortunate Pilgrim
1988 · O
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982 · Lewis Strauss, Frank Karelsen
tvWinston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981
tvOppenheimer
1980 · Lewis Strauss
tvThe Martian Chronicles
1980 · Narrator
tvTales of the Unexpected
1979 · F. Milton Willis
movieSuperman
1978 · State Senator
movieManeaters Are Loose!
1978 · Kevin Pennington
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
tvRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1978 · Jeremiah Cobb
tvThe Professionals
1977 · Callahan
movieStar Wars
1977 · Uncle Owen
movieTwilight's Last Gleaming
1977 · Rev. Cartwright
movieThe Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976 · Virginia Senator
movieThe Romantic Englishwoman
1975 · Mr. Wilson
movieScalawag
1973 · Sandy
movieOoh...You Are Awful
1972 · American Man
movieThe Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1972 · Clark
tvThe Protectors
1972 · Adam Markos
The Curse of a Faithful Wife
movieThe Curse of a Faithful Wife
1972
movieValdez Is Coming
1971 · Malson
movieTogetherness
1970 · Everett
movieTropic of Cancer
1970 · Van Norden
movieThe Adding Machine
1969 · Don
movieLand Raiders
1969 · Sheriff John Mayfield
tvJourney to the Unknown
1968 · Dr. Charles Wilson
movieOperation Cross Eagles
1968 · Sgt. Turley
movieBomb at 10:10
1967 · Professor Pilich / Profesor Pilić
movieThe Bedford Incident
1965 · Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay
movieThe Counterfeit Traitor
1962 · Harold Murray (uncredited)
tvGhost Squad
1961 · Director
Theatre '70
tvTheatre '70
1960 · Director
tvInterpol Calling
1959 · Brownley
movieJohn Paul Jones
1959 · Sentry
tvDial 999
1958
movieThe Camp on Blood Island
1958 · Lt. Peter Bellamy
White Hunter
tvWhite Hunter
1957
movieA King in New York
1957 · Headmaster
tvTheatre Night
1957 · Sam Grassman
tvColonel March of Scotland Yard
1956 · Dr. Bryan Hayes, Gordon, Director
tvThe Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
1955 · Frank Rawlinson
tvSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Director
movieObsession
1949 · Bill Kronin, Dialogue Coach
movieMoonrise
1948 · Elmer - Soda Jerk
movieThe Luck of the Irish
1948 · Tom Higginbotham
movieIf You Knew Susie
1948 · Joe Collins
movieJohnny O'Clock
1947 · Phil, Hotel Clerk
movieThe Killers
1946 · Nick Adams (uncredited)
movieState Fair
1945 · Harry Ware
movieOver 21
1945 · Frank MacDougal
movieThe Jungle Captive
1945 · Don Young, Dialogue Coach
movieThe Impatient Years
1944 · Henry Fairchild
movieWeird Woman
1944 · David Jennings
movieCalling Dr. Gillespie
1942 · Roy Todwell
moviePierre of the Plains
1942 · Val Denton
movieHello, Annapolis
1942 · Kansas City
movieH.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 · Joe Bingham
movieI Wanted Wings
1941 · Jimmy Masters