Thursday, January 2, 2014

Actor James Avery, Uncle Phil on ‘Fresh Prince,’ dies at 68


                                                  Copy of Copy of Obit-James Avery

James Avery, the character actor who laid down the law at home and on the job as the Honorable Philip Banks in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” has died. Mr. Avery’s publicist, Cynthia Snyder, said he died Tuesday in Glendale, Calif., after complications from open-heart surgery. He was 68.

Mr. Avery played the family patriarch and a wealthy attorney and judge on the popular TV comedy that launched the acting career of Will Smith as Banks’ troublemaking nephew.

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