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Phill Lewis (born September 4, 1968) is an American film and television actor, often seen in comic roles.

His first big break in show business was starring in the title role in the short-lived situation comedy Teech. However, the show was canceled after only four episodes because of Lewis' arrest for manslaughter with a motor vehicle and driving while intoxicated.^[1].

According to the February 8, 1993 issue of Jet Magazine, Lewis was later convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for manslaughter with a motor vehicle and driving while intoxicated, but the Maryland judge suspended all but one year of the sentence. Montgomery County, Md., Circuit Court Judge William Miller said he suspended most of the sentence "...because of Lewis' excellent behavior since the car accident, which killed Isabel Duarte, 21, of Bethesda, MD. Lewis [subsequently] worked with a prison-based theater group aimed at making audiences aware of the tragedy of drug abuse at schools, churches and jails. Lewis was also given two years supervised probation and ordered to perform 350 hours of community service."

Currently, he is one of the stars of the Disney Channel television show, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, where he plays the manager of the Tipton Hotel, Mr. Moseby. He has also appeared as a guest star on the Disney Channel's That's So Raven as Mr. Moseby.

Previously, Lewis appeared as a recurring or occasional character on a number of television series, including as the principal on Lizzie McGuire, Hooch on Scrubs, Roy on Yes, Dear, Steve on Friends, Sam Lee on A Different World, a member of Kelly Robinson's entourage in I Spy Returns, and as a doctor on Brothers & Sisters. He also made a cameo appearance as a banker for Lily and Marshal on How I Met Your Mother.

He had a role as Tia and Tamera's teacher, Ed, in Sister, Sister, but has also appeared as Ray's campaign manager on the same series.

He was a regular on The Wayans Bros. from 1995-1998, as T.C. He also was one of the co-hosts for the first-ever Disney Channel Games.

Lewis starred in the hit movie, Brother Future (1991). He has appeared in smaller roles in over a dozen films, including Heathers (1989), City Slickers (1991), Surviving Christmas (2004), and Kicking & Screaming (2005).

He has two daughters.

Lewis is the son of former Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone executive and former U.S. Ambassador Delano Lewis.^[2] He was born in 1968, in Uganda^[3], during his father's stint as the Peace Corps' associate director and country director for Nigeria and Uganda^[4].