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His real name is Erick Avari and he is not dead.
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But you probably know him better as
Ethnic Guy
Ah yes, it's the dude Hollywood calls when they someone in a film or TV show to be delightfully and ambiguously ethnic but not quite dark enough to make racist Americans think he's the bad guy. You've all seen him in all sorts of things and you always go "oh hey, it's that guy who was in that other thing."
Here he is as British guy Rupert Bentley in an episode of Castle
And Indian scientist Dr. Chandra Suresh in Heroes
And now he's Greek! It's Elektra's daddy from Daredevil.
And who could forget vaguely ethnic human servant guy from the remake of The Planet of the Apes?
He's also an Egyptian from another planet in Stargate.
Speaking of other planets, in three different Star Trek shows, he's been a Klingon, a Bajoran, and a...uh..bumpy face guy.
And now back to Egyptian (but terrestrial) in The Mummy. He wore a Fez!
Oh hell, let's go back into the final frontier where he was some kinda Space Jew, Rabbi Leo Mayers, in Babylon 5
And on SeaQuest, he's a Libyan.
And of course, we can't leave out Convenience Store Ethnic Guy from Encino Man, who tells Pauly Shore (your hero and mine!) that he can't wease the juice.
Everyone show the love for Hollywood's favorite Ethnic Guy, Erick Avari!
Ethnic Guy
Ah yes, it's the dude Hollywood calls when they someone in a film or TV show to be delightfully and ambiguously ethnic but not quite dark enough to make racist Americans think he's the bad guy. You've all seen him in all sorts of things and you always go "oh hey, it's that guy who was in that other thing."
Here he is as British guy Rupert Bentley in an episode of Castle
And Indian scientist Dr. Chandra Suresh in Heroes
And now he's Greek! It's Elektra's daddy from Daredevil.
And who could forget vaguely ethnic human servant guy from the remake of The Planet of the Apes?
He's also an Egyptian from another planet in Stargate.
Speaking of other planets, in three different Star Trek shows, he's been a Klingon, a Bajoran, and a...uh..bumpy face guy.
And now back to Egyptian (but terrestrial) in The Mummy. He wore a Fez!
Oh hell, let's go back into the final frontier where he was some kinda Space Jew, Rabbi Leo Mayers, in Babylon 5
And on SeaQuest, he's a Libyan.
And of course, we can't leave out Convenience Store Ethnic Guy from Encino Man, who tells Pauly Shore (your hero and mine!) that he can't wease the juice.
Everyone show the love for Hollywood's favorite Ethnic Guy, Erick Avari!
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Pretty much everything he's in, he's in briefly.
well when they are speaking english, they often do
well what else are they going to speak? canadian?
how fucking Dickens was that goddamn place
like the director was all "yeah, he's fucking patrick stewart. Drinks tea. Earl grey. Hot. They're speaking british accents, that's foreign enough."
According to that list, JK Simmonds is "a poor man's Ed Harris"
That list is horseshit
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or with a french accent. Or a spanish one. Or an arabic accent.
But nine times out of ten? That dude from Algeria or Saudi Arabia or Istanbul or Poland is all "CHIP CHIP CHEERIO GUVNA, I'M FROM BLAHVERIA, WE NEVAH LEARNED TO SPEAK ANYTHING BUT EH WOT AND POPPYCOCK AT MOVIE SCHOOL"
But he's not so this is a great thread!
Meh, a little fear never hurt anyone. Plus now I really want to watch a bunch of great movies with Avari in them.
You'll notice that the thread title says "is" and not "was".
i love this guy! he's in everything!
Usually people make threads about beloved, though not super popular, actors when they are dead/dying/not feeling well. Plus the title doesn't end with a period so one might assume the op would continue with "...Erick Avari dead age 68."
But I won't blame you for my constantly assuming the worst. Carry on with pointing out how great he is.
To British TV, Malik filled the Avari role of being the go-to guy whenever the script notes called for a dude who had to be Indian or Arabic or whatever
A handsome dude at that
I like him
he could do with bigger roles I think
Also that page is mostly bullshit. Plenty of those guys are fine actors, as good or better than the guys who they are supposed to be a poor version of.
I liked how in Valkyrie, Tom Cruise didn't even bother for any accent. And everyone else I guess thought they were on the Death Star rather than Nazi Germany. I would have taken a passable impression of Colonel Klink, but apparently that is beyond highly trained and critically acclaimed actors.
I mean, you want believable, but if they just aren't getting it I would just rather them not try.
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Two legitimate names, together they form such a hilarious combo.
Damn, I meant to include that one in the OP.