Born: 1916
Died: February 09, 2006

In films from the early 1940s, American actor Phil Brown held down supporting roles in most of his Hollywood films. Brown was eighth-billed as Jimmy Brown in his earliest screen credit, the Paramount aviation epic I_Wanted_Wings (1941). He was disturbingly convincing as a homicidal maniac in Calling_Dr._Gillespie (1942), snapping from normality to viciousness within seconds in several scenes. In The_Killers (1946), Brown played Nick Adams, who in the Hemingway story on which the film was based was the narrator but who wound up with little more than a bystander part in the film's opening scene. Moving to Europe in 1950, Brown was put to good use as the victim of a jealous husband in the British-filmed Obsession (1949), released in America as The_Hidden_Room. Phil Brown remained in England and the Continent for the balance of his career. Hal Erickson, Rovi

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