Shows with a key Arab or Middle Eastern character
- Star Trek: DS9 - Dr. Julian Bashir
- Community - Abed Nadir
- Lost - Sayid Jarrah
- DC’s Legends of Tomorrow - Zari Tomaz
- Make Room for Daddy - Uncle Tonoose
- Superstore - Sayid
- Doctor Who - Yasmin Khan
Shows with a key Arab or Middle Eastern character
- Star Trek: DS9 - Dr. Julian Bashir
- Community - Abed Nadir
- Lost - Sayid Jarrah
- DC’s Legends of Tomorrow - Zari Tomaz
- Make Room for Daddy - Uncle Tonoose
- Superstore - Sayid
- Doctor Who - Yasmin Khan
- Arastoo Vaziri - Bones
Shows with a key Arab or Middle Eastern character
- Star Trek: DS9 - Dr. Julian Bashir
- Community - Abed Nadir
- Lost - Sayid Jarrah
- DC’s Legends of Tomorrow - Zari Tomaz
- Make Room for Daddy - Uncle Tonoose
- Superstore - Sayid
- Doctor Who - Yasmin Khan
- Bones - Arastoo Vaziri
- Quantico - Nimah Amin
Shows with a key Arab or Middle Eastern character
- Star Trek: DS9 - Dr. Julian Bashir
- Community - Abed Nadir
- Lost - Sayid Jarrah
- DC’s Legends of Tomorrow - Zari Tomaz
- Make Room for Daddy - Uncle Tonoose
- Superstore - Sayid
- Doctor Who - Yasmin Khan
- Bones - Arastoo Vaziri
- Quantico - Nimah Amin
- MASH - Max Klinger
I’ll pass.
Spoons
3566
Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers
- Don Pardo
(These could be game show prize guys–“You’ve just won a brand new car!”–or somebody introducing guests on a variety or panel show, or similar.)
Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers
- Don Pardo
- Johnny Gilbert
Nonsuch
3568
Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers
- Don Pardo
- Johnny Gilbert
- Johnny Olson
Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers
- Don Pardo
- Johnny Gilbert
- Johnny Olson
- Jay Stewart
Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers
- Don Pardo
- Johnny Gilbert
- Johnny Olson
- Jay Stewart
- Don Morrow
Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers
- Don Pardo
- Johnny Gilbert
- Johnny Olson
- Jay Stewart
- Don Morrow
- Rod Roddy
Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers
- Don Pardo
- Johnny Gilbert
- Johnny Olson
- Jay Stewart
- Don Morrow
- Rod Roddy
- Johnny Jacobs
Is there some kind of industry rule that one in three has to be named “Johnny”?
Rebo
3573
Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers
- Don Pardo
- Johnny Gilbert
- Johnny Olson
- Jay Stewart
- Don Morrow
- Rod Roddy
- Johnny Jacobs
- Shadoe Stevens
He announced and was a panelist on John Davidson’s version of Hollywood Squares, but also announced on other shows.
And was the announcer in The Kentucky Fried Movie! (“Samuel L. Bronkowitz presents…Catholic High School Girls in Trouble,” etc.)
Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers
- Don Pardo
- Johnny Gilbert
- Johnny Olson
- Jay Stewart
- Don Morrow
- Rod Roddy
- Johnny Jacobs
- Shadoe Stevens
- Jack Clark
Spoons
3576
Heard but rarely/never seen: TV announcers
- Don Pardo
- Johnny Gilbert
- Johnny Olson
- Jay Stewart
- Don Morrow
- Rod Roddy
- Johnny Jacobs
- Shadoe Stevens
- Jack Clark
- Ken Ryan
This was mine, so I’ll pass.
Nonsuch
3577
Episodes where a real musician plays a fake musician
- Law & Order - “Blaze” (John Doe plays Teddy Connor)
Episodes where a real musician plays a fake musician
- Law & Order - “Blaze” (John Doe plays Teddy Connor)
- The Big Bang Theory - “The 2003 Approximation” (Simon Helberg plays Howard Wolowitz)
“Footprints on the Moon”
Episodes where a real musician plays a fake musician
- Law & Order - “Blaze” (John Doe plays Teddy Connor)
- The Big Bang Theory - “The 2003 Approximation” (Simon Helberg plays Howard Wolowitz)
- Wiseguy - Debbie Harry plays a singer named Diana Price and sings her new solo Brite Side.
Spoons
3580
Episodes where a real musician plays a fake musician
- Law & Order - “Blaze” (John Doe plays Teddy Connor)
- The Big Bang Theory - “The 2003 Approximation” (Simon Helberg plays Howard Wolowitz)
- Wiseguy - Debbie Harry plays a singer named Diana Price and sings her new solo Brite Side.
- The Snoop Sisters - “The Devil Made Me Do It” (Alice Cooper plays The Prince)
ETA: Not that Prince. “The Prince” was Cooper’s character’s name, according to IMDB.
Episodes where a real musician plays a fake musician
- Law & Order - “Blaze” (John Doe plays Teddy Connor)
- The Big Bang Theory - “The 2003 Approximation” (Simon Helberg plays Howard Wolowitz)
- Wiseguy - Debbie Harry plays a singer named Diana Price and sings her new solo Brite Side.
- The Snoop Sisters - “The Devil Made Me Do It” (Alice Cooper plays The Prince)
- I Love Lucy - Desi Arnaz plays Ricky Ricardo