Marion Moseby, known to most as Mr. Moseby or even Moseby, is a fictional character in the Disney Channel television series, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. He is played by Phill Lewis.

Character Information

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Mr. Moseby is the manager of the Tipton Hotel in Boston. He has dark skin and very short, brown hair assumingly buzzed-cut.

Mr. Moseby loves the Tipton Hotel and spends a lot of his time protecting it from the antics of Zack and Cody Martin, who are the sons of Carey Martin, who is the singer at the Tipton. Mr. Moseby pretends not to like the boys, but he does show concern for them. He bonded with them in "Big Hair and Baseball" when he took them to a baseball game (his first one!). Mr. Moseby is usually very austere, but can be fun, comic, and sarcastic. Mr. Moseby can speak French(although in one episode, he is heard speaking many other languages). When he was young, he did ballet, and wanted the role of Nutcracker Prince in the ballet, The Nutcracker, but suffered a tetherball injury and, therefore, wasn't able to have the role. He was the only boy amongst 20 pretty girls. Mr. Moseby is a second father to London Tipton. His employee, Maddie Fitzpatrick — who works as a candy counter girl — and London are good friends, but sometimes get into fights, which Mr. Moseby occasionally has to break up. He has only once felt relaxed in "Day Care" for a moment but was then interrupted. Being manager of the Tipton hotel means a lot to him and he is very skilled at it and making people listen when they don't to others.

Mr. Moseby has an older (but shorter) brother who he was always bullied by. Even as adults, Moseby was always the bullied little brother since he was just a hotel manager while his brother was a rich millionare. Eventually, the two let out their built up tension between them...in an immature childish fight.

The alternate Moseby in "The Suite Smell of Excess" is a prank-loving, trouble-maker who lets the boys do what they like in the lobby and have all the candy they want from the counter who prefers to be called "M".

Trivia

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• Moseby is in The Tipton family album more then Mr Tipton, and any of his ex-wives.
• Helped London take her first steps (in designer booties).
• It took him fourteen years to teach London the alphabet but now she knows her ABDs.
• His first job at The Tipton was as a bellboy (presumably in the 1970's, when large Afros were in style, but this would make Moseby's age at least in the late 40's), from which he worked his way up to his manager's position.
• Has an older brother named Spencer. He says their mother liked Spencer best because he is lactose intalerant.
• A running gag is that he often embarrases/frightens the guests winding up in a position {such as wacking a fake baby doll that wouldn't stop crying against a chair when a mother with a baby walked by}.

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody characters | Fictional African-Americans | Fictional adults