| rdfs:comment | - He was played by James Avery. Phillip Banks is a lawyer, who has defended many people against unjust police brutality. He also took Will and saved him from the streets. He has raised Will, and when Will's abandoning father came, Lou, he tried to warn Will. Though Will didn't listen, he does scold Lou straight, telling him of the responsibilities of fatherhood.
- Phillip "Zeke" Banks, also known as Uncle Phil, is a very quick tempered character throughout the whole show. Phillip often tends to lose his temper due to Will and Carlton's habit of annoying him and Hillary's stupidity and immaturity. Vivian is usually the only person that can calm Phillip when he loses his cool. Phillip is a very strict father, but a good father, and husband. Even though Phillip tends to lose his temper fairly quickly, he means well deep down, and he loves and cares deeply about his profession and family. Phillip also loves food and had a pet pig when he was a child. According to Hattie Banks, Phillip's childhood is filled with embarrassing stories. Phillip is very protective over his mother and his father is deceased. He is currently a judge and was a lawyer. He can be
- Little Phillp grew up in a rural farm miles from anywhere in South Carolina as his parents were fearful of cities, with their noise and motorcars and housing prices and parties that went on into all hours of the night. It is believed that Phil was a small child during his earliest years, and that his birth was difficult due to his aberrant size as a newborn and his mothers narrow canal. As a child being raised in and around a rustic setting, the young Banks spent his formative years behaving in a manner befitting country life; spending a hot summer going on an rite-of-passage journey to poke a dead body, losing his virginity to a distant relative on a hazy, fly choked Sunday evening, and regarding even the most simplistic of 20th century technology with wonderment. Upon coming of age Banks
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| abstract | - He was played by James Avery. Phillip Banks is a lawyer, who has defended many people against unjust police brutality. He also took Will and saved him from the streets. He has raised Will, and when Will's abandoning father came, Lou, he tried to warn Will. Though Will didn't listen, he does scold Lou straight, telling him of the responsibilities of fatherhood.
- Phillip "Zeke" Banks, also known as Uncle Phil, is a very quick tempered character throughout the whole show. Phillip often tends to lose his temper due to Will and Carlton's habit of annoying him and Hillary's stupidity and immaturity. Vivian is usually the only person that can calm Phillip when he loses his cool. Phillip is a very strict father, but a good father, and husband. Even though Phillip tends to lose his temper fairly quickly, he means well deep down, and he loves and cares deeply about his profession and family. Phillip also loves food and had a pet pig when he was a child. According to Hattie Banks, Phillip's childhood is filled with embarrassing stories. Phillip is very protective over his mother and his father is deceased. He is currently a judge and was a lawyer. He can be very cheap, but he does let it slide when he lets his daughter Hilary shops, even though it bothers and annoys him. Phillip is very obese, weighting around 300 pounds. His weight sometimes poses as a threat: For example, Phillip sat on his bed and the pressure of his weight caused the entire bed to come down on Will, Carlton and Hillary, Pinning them down to the point of no escape. He also accidentally sat on a rabbit, killing it and he sat on his nephew Will, although that was a punishment. While it's rarely shown aside from important moments, Phillip has had a history with the Civil Rights movement. In the Pilot episode, when Will calls him soft, Phillip calls him out on having Malcolm X posters when the latter saw and heard the man himself speak, A notion that seemed to surprise and impress Will. When a fellow activist calls him a sellout for working with the system, he tears into her verbally that while he no longer fights in the street anymore, those times were never forgotten and that he faced dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham, as well as watching Harlem go up in flames. He instead during his time as a lawyer used his position to fight and win for fair housing, affirmative action and better health care.
- Little Phillp grew up in a rural farm miles from anywhere in South Carolina as his parents were fearful of cities, with their noise and motorcars and housing prices and parties that went on into all hours of the night. It is believed that Phil was a small child during his earliest years, and that his birth was difficult due to his aberrant size as a newborn and his mothers narrow canal. As a child being raised in and around a rustic setting, the young Banks spent his formative years behaving in a manner befitting country life; spending a hot summer going on an rite-of-passage journey to poke a dead body, losing his virginity to a distant relative on a hazy, fly choked Sunday evening, and regarding even the most simplistic of 20th century technology with wonderment. Upon coming of age Banks chose to leave the rural pastishe of his home for the dark, heroin-fuelled concrete of Baltimore Maryland as, after some months spent deep in half-baked existential musing, the young Phillip Banks had decided he wanted to spend the rest of his life wearing a tie.
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