Animated TV Robots
Chopper - Star Wars Rebels
Goddard - Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
Cyborg Barry - Archer
Astro Boy
Bender - Futurama
Butter Robot - Rick and Morty
HERBIE - Fantastic Four (1978)
Helper - The Venture Brothers
Rosie - The Jetsons
XJ-9 - My Life As A Teenage Robot
Black Characters from the 1960’s or Earlier
Rochester Van Jones (Eddie Anderson) - The Jack Benny Show
Black Characters from the 1960’s or Earlier
Rochester Van Jones (Eddie Anderson) - The Jack Benny Show
Linc Hayes (Clarence Williams III) - The Mod Squad (1968-1973)
Julia Baker (Diahann Carroll) - Julia
Barney Collier (Greg Morris) - Mission: Impossible (1966-73)
Kingfish (Tim Moore) - Amos ‘n’ Andy
Black Characters from the 1960’s or Earlier
Rochester Van Jones (Eddie Anderson) - The Jack Benny Show
Linc Hayes (Clarence Williams III) - The Mod Squad (1968-1973)
Julia Baker (Diahann Carroll) - Julia
Barney Collier (Greg Morris) - Mission: Impossible (1966-73)
Kingfish (Tim Moore) - Amos ‘n’ Andy
S/Sgt. James Kinchlo (Ivan Dixon) – Hogan’s Heroes (1965-1971)
Dixon left the series in 1970, reportedly over feelings that his talents weren’t being fully utilized.
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Black Characters from the 1960’s or Earlier
Rochester Van Jones (Eddie Anderson) - The Jack Benny Show
Linc Hayes (Clarence Williams III) - The Mod Squad (1968-1973)
Julia Baker (Diahann Carroll) - Julia
Barney Collier (Greg Morris) - Mission: Impossible (1966-73)
Kingfish (Tim Moore) - Amos ‘n’ Andy
S/Sgt. James Kinchlo (Ivan Dixon) – Hogan’s Heroes (1965-1971)
Pete Jones (Dallas McKennon) - The Hardy Boys (cartoon, 1969-1971)
Black Characters from the 1960’s or Earlier
Rochester Van Jones (Eddie Anderson) - The Jack Benny Show
Linc Hayes (Clarence Williams III) - The Mod Squad (1968-1973)
Julia Baker (Diahann Carroll) - Julia
Barney Collier (Greg Morris) - Mission: Impossible (1966-73)
Kingfish (Tim Moore) - Amos ‘n’ Andy
S/Sgt. James Kinchlo (Ivan Dixon) – Hogan’s Heroes (1965-1971)
Pete Jones (Dallas McKennon) - The Hardy Boys (cartoon, 1969-1971)
Lt. Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) - Star Trek (1966-1969)
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Black Characters from the 1960’s or Earlier
Rochester Van Jones (Eddie Anderson) - The Jack Benny Show
Linc Hayes (Clarence Williams III) - The Mod Squad (1968-1973)
Julia Baker (Diahann Carroll) - Julia
Barney Collier (Greg Morris) - Mission: Impossible (1966-73)
Kingfish (Tim Moore) - Amos ‘n’ Andy
S/Sgt. James Kinchlo (Ivan Dixon) – Hogan’s Heroes (1965-1971)
Pete Jones (Dallas McKennon) - The Hardy Boys (cartoon, 1969-1971)
Lt. Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) - Star Trek (1966-1969)
Alexander “Scotty” Scott (Bill Cosby) - I Spy (1965-1968)
Black Characters from the 1960’s or Earlier
Rochester Van Jones (Eddie Anderson) - The Jack Benny Show
Linc Hayes (Clarence Williams III) - The Mod Squad (1968-1973)
Julia Baker (Diahann Carroll) - Julia
Barney Collier (Greg Morris) - Mission: Impossible (1966-73)
Kingfish (Tim Moore) - Amos ‘n’ Andy
S/Sgt. James Kinchlo (Ivan Dixon) – Hogan’s Heroes (1965-1971)
Pete Jones (Dallas McKennon) - The Hardy Boys (cartoon, 1969-1971)
Lt. Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) - Star Trek (1966-1969)
Alexander “Scotty” Scott (Bill Cosby) - I Spy (1965-1968)
Simon Blake (Raymond St. Jacques) - Rawhide (1965)
Differently-abled roles on TV
Longstreet - blindness
Differently-abled roles on TV
Longstreet - blindness
Arthur “Artie” Abrams, Glee - uses a wheelchair
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Differently-abled roles on TV
Longstreet - blindness
Arthur “Artie” Abrams, Glee - uses a wheelchair
Switched at Birth – about 1/2 the cast is Deaf-- and played by Deaf actors
Robert T. Ironside, Ironside - uses a wheelchair
Longstreet - blindness
Arthur “Artie” Abrams, Glee - uses a wheelchair
Switched at Birth – about 1/2 the cast is Deaf-- and played by Deaf actors
Robert T. Ironside, Ironside - uses a wheelchair
Adam Janikowsky, Mom – wheelchair
Walter White Jr., Breaking Bad - cerebral palsy
The actor, R. J. Mitte, has cerebral palsy in real life.
Longstreet - blindness
Arthur “Artie” Abrams, Glee - uses a wheelchair
Switched at Birth – about 1/2 the cast is Deaf-- and played by Deaf actors
Robert T. Ironside, Ironside - uses a wheelchair
Adam Janikowsky, Mom – wheelchair
Walter White Jr., Breaking Bad - cerebral palsy
Louis Canning, The Good Wife – inexplicably, Tardive Dyskinesia, albeit, he’s played by Michael J. Fox who has a different movement disorder IRL-- Parkinson’s disease
and Tardive Dyskinesia is a side effect of anti-psychotic meds, so people with it are nearly always schizophrenic, making it doubly an odd choice-- why not just have the character affected by Parkinson’s? I’d love to know