Bryan Phillips (Todd Davis)

Bryan Phillips was the best friend of Scott Baldwin and later Laura Webber. He began a relationship with the wealthy Claudia Johnston. Bryan had an estranged relationship his father, Eddie (Sammy Davis Jr.). As a result,Rick Webber was more of a surrogate father to him. Brian did however manage to patch things up with his own father before his death. In 1983, Vince Larrick takes Bryan, Monica Quartermaine and Bobbie Spencer hostage in the hospital cafeteria. Larrick calls Bryan racial slurs and shoots him, however his life is saved when Robert Scorpio exchanges himself for Bryan's release. Bryan later married Claudia and they had twin children. After his marriage was nearly ruined when he befriended another woman named Debbie, Bryan and Claudia left Port Charles with their twins in 1986.