One of the most-loved characters on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air cast was Philip Banks (James Avery), affectionately known as Uncle Phil, a stern yet loving patriarch of the Banks family who serves ...

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air lives in that set and to actually go back there was highly emotional. Sadly missing was James Avery, who died in 2014, and played judge and patriarch Uncle Phil Banks.

NEW YORK (AP) - James Avery, the bulky character actor who laid down the law as the Honorable Philip Banks in "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," has died. Avery's publicist, Cynthia Snyder ...