James Avery
James LaRue Avery (November 27, 1945 – December 31, 2013) was an American actor.
Best known for his portrayal of the patriarch and attorney (later judge) Philip Banks, Will Smith's character's uncle, in the TVsitcomThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. This character was ranked #34 in TV Guide's "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time." He also provided the voice of Shredder in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series, as well as War Machine in the animated series Iron Man and Junkyard Dog in Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling. He also played Michael Kelso's commanding officer at the police academy late in the series run of That '70s Show.
Birthday: 27 November 1945
Birth place: Pughsville [now Suffolk], Virginia, USA
Known for: Acting
Movies known for
Sunday Drive
Epoch
Dr. Dolittle 2
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
The Prince of Egypt
Kicks
License to Drive
Raise Your Voice
To My Daughter
A Friend to Die For
Shout
Nightflyers
The Third Wish
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Attack of the Big MACC
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Turtles' Awesome Easter
Timestalkers
The Advanced Guard
Condor
Divine Intervention
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Planet of the Turtleoids
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Heroes in a Halfshell
Three for the Road
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Epic Begins
Wheelmen
Spirit Lost
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Dancing in September
Antony and Cleopatra
Hunt for the Labyrinth Killer
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
Little Miss Millions
Out in Fifty
The Linguini Incident
Who's Your Caddy?
Laugh Busters
Not Your Time
Quincy Jones...The First 50 Years
The Blues Brothers
Roe vs. Wade
Appointment with Fear
The Brady Bunch Movie
Related TV Shows
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Legend of Prince Valiant
Living with Fran
Star Trek: Enterprise
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Sparks
Rambo: The Force of Freedom
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
Dallas
Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
Sherri
The Legend of Tarzan
The Legend of Tarzan
The Wild Thornberrys
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Amazing Stories
Going Bananas
Aladdin
Reading Rainbow
American Experience
American Experience
Roc
One World
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
A Different World
Moonlighting
Murder One
The A-Team
Iron Man
Spider-Man
The Proud Family
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Philly
Grey's Anatomy
The Nightmare Room
Night Court
Brothers
The Real Ghostbusters
Eli Stone
Going Places
L.A. Law