About
Philip Mortimer Brown was an American actor and director. 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 between 1953 and...
Known for
American PlayhouseSeries • 1982
The ProfessionalsSeries • 1977
Tales of the UnexpectedSeries • 1979
Star WarsMovie • 1977
The ProtectorsSeries • 1972
SupermanMovie • 1978
Interpol CallingSeries • 1959
ChaplinMovie • 1992
Twilight's Last GleamingMovie • 1977
The Pink Panther Strikes AgainMovie • 1976
The Martian ChroniclesSeries • 1980
The KillersMovie • 1946
A King in New YorkMovie • 1957
Valdez Is ComingMovie • 1971
The Bedford IncidentMovie • 1965
The Luck of the IrishMovie • 1948
The Romantic EnglishwomanMovie • 1975
The Counterfeit TraitorMovie • 1962
State FairMovie • 1945
MoonriseMovie • 1948
The Camp on Blood IslandMovie • 1958
Johnny O'ClockMovie • 1947
Tropic of CancerMovie • 1970
ObsessionMovie • 1949