Phil Morris (actor)
Phil Morris is an American film and television actor. He played Jackie Chiles in Seinfeld, Martian Manhunter in Smallville, and Silas Stone in Doom Patrol. As a voice actor, he is known for voicing Dr. Sweet in Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Doc Saturday in The Secret Saturdays.
Early life
Morris is the son of actor Greg Morris and Leona Keyes. He is also the younger brother of actress Iona Morris. He is a practitioner of Wing Chun under Shifu Hawkins Cheung.Career
Morris's first acting role was as a child when he appeared in the 1966 Star Trek episode "Miri". Star Trek was, at the time, shot at the same studio that produced Mission: Impossible, where his father was working. He made his feature film debut in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock in a small role and later guest starred in Babylon 5, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager.In the mid-1980s, Morris portrayed law student Tyrone Jackson in The Young and the Restless. In the 1990s, after starring in Andriana furs commercials Morris played a recurring character, the Johnnie Cochran-inspired defense attorney Jackie Chiles, in the comedy series Seinfeld. The episode "The Abstinence" depicts Chiles suing a tobacco company, which Morris said he took great pleasure in, having been made fun of his whole life due to having the same name as the tobacco brand Philip Morris. Morris also co-starred in the TV remake of Mission: Impossible as tech wizard Grant Collier. He also said in an interview that he grew up watching the original Mission: Impossible, with series' lead Peter Graves, whom Morris came to consider his acting mentor. Through his childhood, Morris knew Graves' real-life children. The friendship continued, until Peter Graves' death on March 14, 2010, which devastated Morris. He voiced the supporting role of Dr. Sweet in Disney's 2001 film Atlantis: The Lost Empire as well as its 2003 sequel, Atlantis: Milo's Return. He played one of Will Smith's college professors in the NBC show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and played Dr. Clay Spencer in Girlfriends.
In 2007, Morris began portraying Martian Manhunter in Smallville. He reprised the role in the show's sixth-season finale on May 17, 2007, as well as the episodes "Bizarro" and "Cure" in the seventh season and the episodes "Odyssey", "Prey", and "Bulletproof" in the eighth season. Morris also reprised the role in the ninth-season episodes "Absolute Justice", "Checkmate", and "Salvation".
As a voice actor, Morris voiced the villains Imperiex in Legion of Super Heroes, and Vandal Savage in Justice League and Justice League: Doom. He voiced W'Kabi in the animated series Black Panther. He appeared in one episode each of the series CSI: Miami and Seven Days. Morris also was the voice of Paul the Apostle in Zondervan's The Bible Experience. Morris made a cameo appearance as Miles Dyson in photographs in the television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. He provided the voice of the character Doc Saturday in the animated show The Secret Saturdays. He also played a major supporting role in the PlayStation 2 game Ratchet: Deadlocked, as Merc, one of the combat bots that accompany the main character Ratchet. He also worked as a voice actor in The PJs; according to Morris, he acted as a temporary replacement for co-creator and star Eddie Murphy whenever he was unavailable. He did several voices in the animated film Dead Space: Downfall as Hansen and Glenn. He played Delroy Jones in the TV One series Love That Girl!, Saint Walker in the Cartoon Network series Green Lantern: The Animated Series, and Ultra Richard in the Cartoon Hangover series SuperF*ckers.