View Full Version : Phil Lewis and Phil Morris, the black Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman?


tvje
08-12-2005, 11:20 AM
Am I the only one, who sometimes get the actors Phil Lewis and Phil Morris mixed up? Both are african american actors, who have a lot of medium size roles in sitcoms. They both played the same types of roles mostly milk toast african amerians, none of them had breakout success, and they have the same first name.

Morris played the most merrioable character of the two, Jackie Childs on "Seinfeld."

Before anyone turns this into a race thing, I am comparing them to Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman, and I like a lot of people sometimes get them mixed up to.

jamesanthony
08-13-2005, 02:09 PM
These 2 Phils will have to be content doing the type of modest roles that they do- yet they are the types that turn up in so many different things that I don't think that either one is hurting financially. Morris (Greg Morris from Mission:Impossible's son) has more range as an actor though. He could do drama. Forget about Phill Lewis doing drama- his acting skills are too limited for that- he's better suited for comedy and even in those parts his skills are limited. Did anyone here ever see his CBS sitcom Teech from 1991? Aside from Wayans Brothers, his best known work was in a PBS drama Brother Future about slavery that is available at a lot of the local libraries in NYC.

tvje
08-13-2005, 06:53 PM
As I said before, between the two of them, Phil Morris has played the most famous character, Jackie Childs from Seinfeld. But the character is more famous than the actor. Also I seen Morris in other tv shows and movies, he looks nothing like Jackie Childs, on Seinfeld he was in costume.

Let me repeat this is not a race things, if I get Chris Rock and Chris Tucker confused, than we got a problem.