Phil Brown

Phil Brown was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In his early acting career, Brown appeared in such films as "H. M. Pulham, Esq." (1941), the drama "I Wanted Wings" (1941) with Ray Milland and the Tom Brown comedy "Hello, Annapolis" (1942). He also appeared in the thriller "Weird Woman" (1944) with Lon Chaney Jr., the Jean Arthur comedy "The Impatient Years" (1944) and the horror flick "Jungle Captive" (1945) with Otto Kruger. He kept working in film throughout the sixties and the seventies, starring in the Richard Widmark dramatic adaptation "The Bedford Incident" (1965), "The Adding Machine" (1969) with Phyllis Diller and "Land Raiders" (1969). He also appeared in "Tropic of Cancer" (1970) with Rip Torn. Brown was most recently credited in "American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story" (2016-). Brown continued to exercise his talent in the nineties and the early 2000s, taking on a mix of projects like "Wyatt Earp" (1994), "Fools Rush In" with Matthew Perry (1997) and "Love Serenade" with Miranda Otto (1997). His credits also expanded to "The Thirteenth Floor" (1999) starring Craig Bierko and "Starwoids" (2000). Brown was nominated for an Outstanding Individual Achievement In Sound Mixing For a Comedy Series or a Special Primetime Emmy Award for "Love & War" in 1995. Brown passed away in February 2006 at the age of 90.