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| James Avery aka Uncle Phil |
65 years, the age you begin retirement and collect your SSA checks. Not so when I heard the sad news of James Avery passing away yesterday. He was the dad of Will Smith and Alfonso Ribiero in the show "Fresh prince of Bel Air"
Sources close to the actor tell TMZ he died in an L.A. hospital last night. Avery had recently undergone surgery for an undisclosed illness and took a turn for the worse late yesterday.
And we're told his wife, Barbara, had been at his bedside but left for a short period of time to get something to eat. When she came back, she learned he had just died.
Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/01/james-avery-dies-fresh-prince-of-bel-air-actor-will-smith-alfonso-ribiero/#ixzz2pAnxTa2j
