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Joseph Connor Phillips (born January 17, 1962 in Denver, Colorado) is an American actor and a conservative, Christian commentator and writer. He is the son of Dr. Clarence Phillips, a Denver pediatrician. He and his wife Nicole have three sons, Connor, Ellis, and Samuel.
[edit] CareerFrom 1989 to 1991, Phillips portrayed U.S. Navy Lieutenant Martin Kendall on the popular NBC sitcom, The Cosby Show. Additionally, he portrayed attorney Justus Ward on the ABC soap opera General Hospital from 1994 to 1998. Phillips is also a guest political commentator on News and Notes with Ed Gordon on most NPR radio stations. In 2006, Phillips published an autobiography, He Talk Like A White Boy, which had a foreword by Tavis Smiley. [edit] Education and associationsPhillips is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans. He attended the University of the Pacific as a communications major, but later transferred to the acting conservatory at New York University where he graduated with a BFA in Acting in 1983. Phillips is an ambassador for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. He has spoken extensively about the disease and its effect on the family.[1]He is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Actors Equity Association, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, was National Co-Chair of the African American Steering committee for Bush/Cheney ’04, was named a member of the Republican National Committee's African American Advisory Board, was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the state board of directors of the California African American Museum and was named a 2005 Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow. [edit] Conservative activismPhillips, a conservative Republican, is a television and radio commentator and writes a weekly syndicated column that promotes conservative views, such as traditional family values, limited government and a return to America's founding principles. He has been a vocal critic of same-sex marriage. [2] [edit] Filmography
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