Actor. He is best known for his role as Luke Skywalker's Uncle Owen in the motion picture "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope" (1977). Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he attended Stanford University, majoring in dramatics and becoming a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Upon graduation from Stanford in 1937, he became a member of the Group Theatre in New York City, playing some of his first stage roles. When the Group Theatre closed down, several of its members relocated to Hollywood where he co-founded the Actors' Laboratory Theatre in 1941. He made his film debut with "I Wanted Wings" (1941). Other notable films include: "State Fair" (1945), "The Killers" (1946), "The Luck of the Irish" (1948) and "Obsession" (1949). His affiliation as co-founder of the Actors' Laboratory in Hollywood made him a target for the United States' House of Representatives' House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC) investigation of suspected communists in the entertainment field. Eventually blacklisted, he moved his family to London, England, where he lived in self-exile for forty years. He continued to act in films, television and on the London West End stage, where he appeared with Helen Hayes in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie." He returned to the United States, where he was a popular figure for autograph seekers and fans at science fiction and Star Wars conventions. He died in Woodland Hills, California.
Actor. He is best known for his role as Luke Skywalker's Uncle Owen in the motion picture "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope" (1977). Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he attended Stanford University, majoring in dramatics and becoming a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Upon graduation from Stanford in 1937, he became a member of the Group Theatre in New York City, playing some of his first stage roles. When the Group Theatre closed down, several of its members relocated to Hollywood where he co-founded the Actors' Laboratory Theatre in 1941. He made his film debut with "I Wanted Wings" (1941). Other notable films include: "State Fair" (1945), "The Killers" (1946), "The Luck of the Irish" (1948) and "Obsession" (1949). His affiliation as co-founder of the Actors' Laboratory in Hollywood made him a target for the United States' House of Representatives' House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC) investigation of suspected communists in the entertainment field. Eventually blacklisted, he moved his family to London, England, where he lived in self-exile for forty years. He continued to act in films, television and on the London West End stage, where he appeared with Helen Hayes in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie." He returned to the United States, where he was a popular figure for autograph seekers and fans at science fiction and Star Wars conventions. He died in Woodland Hills, California.
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