Phillip Robert Chancellor III
Actor History
Dick Billingsley (1981)
Chris Hebert (1981 to 1982)
Jimmy Keegan (1983)
Thom Bierdz (1986 to 1989; appearance as ghost July 6, 2004; May 15, 2009 to present)
Nicknames
Drunk Phillip (by Y&R Onliners to distinguish one from another)
Phillip Langley (alias)
Lifeline
Born December 25, 1976
Returned from boarding school in 1986 and was aged to 16
Thought to have died in 1989 at age 19
Occupation
Former Bar Owner/Bartender in Australia
Former GCU college Student
Worked at Chancellor Industries
Attended boarding school most of his childhood
Resides At
Unknown location in Genoa City
Marital Status
Single
Past Marriages
Married to Nina Webster at time of supposed death
Relatives
Phillip Chancellor II (father; deceased)
Jill Foster (mother)
William Foster Abbott (half-brother)
Phillip Chancellor I (grandfather; deceased)
William Foster Sr. (grandfather; via adoption)
Elizabeth Foster Brooks (grandmother; via adoption)
William 'Snapper' Foster (uncle; via adoption)
Greg Foster (uncle; via adoption)
Jennifer Elizabeth Foster (cousin; via adoption)
Pierre Charles Roulland (cousin; via adoption)
Children
Phillip Chancellor IV (son; with Nina)
Flings & Affairs
Christine Blair
Nina Webster
Crimes Committed
Multiple arrests for drunk driving
Paid off police and doctors to fake his own death and disappear
Brief Character History
Phillip Chancellor III was the love child of Jill Foster and Phillip Chancellor II, as Phillip's father was married to Katherine at the time of conception. Though Jill and Phillip II were married on his deathbed, Katherine had the marriage legally invalidated, stopping any inheritance to Jill or her son-and use of the Chancellor name.
Between her job at Jabot and her efforts to secure a future for her son by always getting involved with yet another rich man, Jill had little time for "Little Phillip." Her mother Liz practically raised him herself. Once Jill had snagged and married John Abbott, and she could afford it, Phillip was shipped off to a Swiss boarding school.
In 1986 Phillip Foster returned from boarding school for the summer as a teenager with an inferiority complex and a drinking problem, apparently caused by his resentment of Jill for dumping him there. Rather than move into Jill's hotel suite, where she was living since her divorce from John Abbott, Phillip chose to stay with Jill's nemesis Kay Chancellor at the Chancellor estate. Kay persuaded Phillip to enroll at Genoa City University rather than return to boarding school in the fall. This enraged Jill so much, she fought for custody, which brought out all the ugly secrets surrounding Phillip's birth and Kay's revenge of taking away his Chancellor birthright. Because Phillip expressed that the security and attention he got from Kay he had never had with Jill, the judge granted Kay temporary custody. Phillip forgave Kay and no longer felt the need to drink. Kay arranged for his name to be legally changed to Phillip Chancellor III.
Phillip was befriended by Cricket Blair and Nina Webster, who were best friends. Phillip fell for Cricket, but didn't think he could compete with rock star Danny Romalotti. Nina campaigned heavily for Phillip, but lost when Danny decided Cricket was too young to be involved with only him. During Phillip and Cricket's romance, Phillip began drinking again for confidence. One evening, they had an accident while Phillip was driving drunk, but Cricket told the police she was driving to keep him from being arrested again. The negative publicity nearly cost Cricket her job as the Jabot Junior model. But Phillip, who had no recollection of the accident, turned himself in after Danny told him what actually happened. Cricket temporarily moved into the Chancellor estate to lend Phillip motional support in his struggle to quit drinking. One evening, while Cricket was enjoying an innocent visit with Danny, Nina got Phillip drunk and seduced him. Then Phillip and Danny both proposed marriage to Cricket. After Cricket decided to accept Phillip's proposal, Nina broke the news that she was pregnant with Phillip's baby, much to both Kay and Jill's horror.
Kay and Jill teamed up, allowing Nina to live in Kay's attic, while they schemed to keep Nina from ruining Phillip's life. Once Phillip IV was born, they tried to prove the baby was not his, offered her money to move away, and arranged for Chase Benson to romance her so they could charge her with neglect. All failed because tests proved the child was Phillip's, and Nina believed that he would eventually marry her. A critical illness of baby Phillip, and Nina's transformation by Cricket, Rex, and Danny from a street urchin to a mannered young lady made Phillip change his attitude toward Nina. But it was his mother Jill's nasty hostile attitude toward Nina that made Phillip become protective and eventually fall in love with and marry her.
Phillip quit college and went to work at Chancellor Industries. The demands of being a husband and father eventually turned him back to alcohol. In a shocking turn of events, on the way home from an office party, Phillip, driving drunk again, crashed his sports car and was killed. Jill held Nina responsible for Phillip's death and challenged her right to his inheritance. The judge ruled that Phillip's estate would be put into a trust for baby Phillip, to be administered by Nina. He also let Nina decide visitation terms for Jill with her grandson.
In 2007, shortly after getting a DNA test that confirmed Jill was indeed her daughter, Katherine began having disturbing nightmares of a baby crying. Through the help of psychic Silvia Brown, whose card reading turned into a séance with Jill's dead son Phillip, Kay began to remember a ring and a scene where she was handing over a baby. When it finally came back to her, she was forced to reveal to Jill that Kay had switched her son Phillip for another baby shortly after his birth, and had given a woman named Violet an expensive ring to secure the deal. Because of her heavy drinking and shame, Kay had blocked this out all these years. Jill was torn between being livid with Kay and relieved that her son Phillip was not dead after all. They hired JT to try to track down the real Phillip Chancellor III. And Amber Moore also did her own research consulting tarot cards and psychics, and the Internet. Amber found Cane, whose adopted mother was named Violet. He was searching for his mother and came to Genoa City from Australia on her lead. Amber and Cane got cozy, and after she discovered the possible link to the Chancellor millions, she took him to Vegas to get married, supposedly to keep him from being deported back to Australia. At the last minute, Cane decided against the marriage, so Amber drugged him and got her friend Ali to take his place in disguise, telling him he was too drunk to remember being married the next morning. A DNA test later proved him to be the real Phillip Chancellor, son of Jill. Phillips' body was exhumed and found not to be Jill's biological son. It is unknown who the body really was.
In 2009 another DNA test proved that Katherine and Jill were not a match, but Brock was confirmed as her son, so untimately Jill was not Kay's daughter and Jill's true parents are unknown.
In June 2009, Nina returned to Genoa City to do a screenplay adaptation of Katherine's memoirs, and was skeptical of Cane's story and questioned him about it. Cane called "his uncle Langley" in Australia saying, "Phillip, your wife is going to find out you're still alive", but he told Cane not to worry, it would lead nowhere and blow over. Paul found out that Violet was in a hospital in Arizona at the time of the baby switch, so that part of Cane's story is a lie, but Jill and Kay refuse to believe that Cane not genuine. Nina was anxious to identify her son's father to find out if he had the gene to confirm or rule out his possible diagnosis of Huntington's disease. When she called the lab to get the remains from the prior exhumation re-examined, she was told they had no remains, nor any record of it at all in their files. So she had the body exhumed again, opened the coffin and found it empty. Further tests showed there had never been a body in that coffin, just the bags of sand to give it weight. Meanwhile Cane was frantically trying to get hold of "Langley. Jill reluctantly requested another DNA test, and Cane was seen pulling a vial of blood from a freezer of dry ice marked “Langley”. The blood test was done at the Chancellor estate, but Cane distracted everyone while he substituted the blood vials. The results came in, and all but Nina were thrilled that Cane proved to be Jill’s son. Then Paul delivered more news to Nina; tests showed the blood had been frozen, so Nina confronted Cane asking where he got the blood to pass the test. Cane admitted to Nina that he was a fraud in front of Kay, Jill, Murphy, Chloe, Neil and Lily, saying it was not for the money, he never wanted to hurt anyone, only meant to heal them, and they became family to him. When asked how Cane could do this to the people who gave him nothing but love, Jill’s son Phillip emerged say that he did it, it was his doing. All were aghast to see Phillip again, still alive! Katherine had another mini-stroke and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Murphy, Jill and Nina were with her when Phillip arrived and assured everyone he was very much alive, explaining that at 19 he found himself overwhelmed with responsibilities as a young executive at Chancellor and a new father, an alcoholic in depression attempted suicide by crashing his sports car. When he awoke still alive in the hospital, he managed to pay off a doctor and a policeman to aid in faking his death, then escaped to Australia and began a new life as Langley. Five years ago he met Cane who came to work for Phillip as a bartender in Phillip’s bar, and they became friends. Cane had grown up alone without a family and helped Phillip realize what he had must have put everyone through with his death. So they concocted the plan to give Jill and Kay a new son in Cane, making them all happy. He told Nina that he justified leaving her and their son because they would both be better off without him. Meanwhile back at the Chancellor Estate, Lily was crushed that Cane had lied to her for years, Neil told him to stay away from Lily, and Billy arrived in time to punch him out. Then Phillip dropped the bomb on Nina, telling her that another reason he was so desperate to die or to leave was that he was, and is, gay!
Cane came to the Chancellor Mansion to say goodbye and apologize to Kay and Jill. Phillip tried to get them to stop Cane from leaving, reminding them didn't they love him just a few days ago? But Cane slipped out while they were welcoming Nina's son Phillip I (who now is called Chance) who returned from Iraq unexpectedly finding his supposedly dead father as part of his welcome home. Chance's reaction was abnormally calm as he shook his father's hand, saying he was relieved, that dead people never came back where he'd just been. Phillip gave them all some relief by announcing the results of his blood test, that he was not a Huntington's carrier. Chance told Phillip he was not interested in his explanation, that Ryan was the only father he ever knew. Chloe and Chance began getting to know each other, and Chance admitted that he had been discharged from the Army, lonesome for his mother and grandmother, intended to stay, and was still a virgin. Katherine told Phillip that what he did to them was unforgivable. But after what Cane did to save Lily by getting her to return and have surgery, that he was a good man, she forgave Cane and asked him to stay in Genoa City.
Nina convinced Chance to meet with his father and get to know him. Phillip explained to him that he was gay and why he left, but Chance failed to see it as anything but irresponsible, though he appreciated his coming back to take the Huntington’s test for him. Phillip offered to stay in town, and they shook hands. Phillip went home and commiserated with Jill about what lousy parents they both were, but he offered forgiveness, knowing she did the best she knew how. And in exchange Jill forgave him for faking his death. Nina admitted to Chance that despite it all, she still loved his father Phillip.
