Hy Averback
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Hy Averback (October 21, 1920 – October 14, 1997) was a director, producer, actor, and production manager.
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Averback co-produced the popular 1960s sitcom F Troop and supplied the voice over the loudspeaker heard on the television series M*A*S*H.
Film credits include directing Chamber of Horrors (1966), Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968), 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.