Phil Brown

Phil Brown was born on Apr 30, 1916 in USA. Phil Brown's big-screen debut came with I Wanted Wings directed by Mitchell Leisen in 1941, strarring Jimmy Masters. Phil Brown is known for Chaplin directed by Richard Attenborough, Robert Downey Jr. stars as Charles Spencer Chaplin and Geraldine Chaplin as Hannah Chaplin. The upcoming new movie Phil Brown plays is Chaplin which will be released on Jan 08, 1993.

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Phil Brown was the son of a doctor whose work took the family all around the country. After majoring in dramatics at Stanford University, Brown played some of his earliest stage roles as part of New York's Group Theatre. When it folded, he and other Group Theatre vets headed to Hollywood, where Brown worked in motion pictures and helped found the fabled Actors' Laboratory. 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, and Brown was eventually compelled to relocate with his family to England, UK. Overseas he was able to resume acting on stage, TV and films; he also directed for the stage and TV. He returned to the U.S. in the 1990s and made the rounds of autograph shows.