Hy Averback (October 21, 1920, Minneapolis, Minnesota – October 14, 1997, Los Angeles, California) was a radio, TV and film actor who eventually became a producer and director.

Radio
Averback was an announcer in Hollywood before World War II. During the War, as part of the Armed Forces Radio Service, he entertained troops in the Pacific with his program of comedy and music, where he created the character of Tokyo Mose, a lampoon of Japan's Tokyo Rose. In the post-War years he became the announcer for Bob Hope and Jack Paar on NBC, also announcing for other NBC radio shows, The Sealtest Village Store and Let's Talk Hollywood.

Television
Doing comedy on early television, he appeared on The Saturday Night Revue (1953-54), Tonight (1955) and NBC Comedy Hour (1956). He was a series regular as Mr. Romero on Our Miss Brooks and was seen in I Love Lucy and other comedies of the 1950s, moving into directing at the end of that decade. He directed The Real McCoys (1957-63), The Dick Powell Show (1961-63), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68), The Flying Nun (1967- 70), Columbo (1971), McCloud (1971), M*A*S*H (1972), Quark (1978), Matt Houston (1982-83), The Four Seasons (1984) and the miniseries Pearl (1978). He produced CBS's Mrs. G. Goes to College, or The Gertrude Berg Show in the 1961-1962 season.

He co-produced the popular 1960s sitcom F Troop and supplied the voice over the loudspeaker heard on the television series M*A*S*H.

Films
Film credits include directing Chamber of Horrors (1966), Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968), The Great Bank Robbery, and Suppose They Gave A War and Nobody Came (1969) as well as the reunion TV-movie The New Maverick (1978) with James Garner and Jack Kelly.

Averback died October 14, 1997 in Los Angeles, California after cardiac surgery.