[1] Averback graduated from the Edward Clark Academy Theater in 1938[2] and eventually got a job announcing at KMPC Beverly Hills[3] before World War II.

[8] In 1955 he joined the ensemble cast of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, playing multiple character roles in support of leading actor Bob Bailey.

He was a series regular as Mr. Romero on the Eve Arden sitcom Our Miss Brooks & appeared on I Love Lucy & other 1950s comedies, then moved into directing at the end of the decade.

(1968), I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968), The Great Bank Robbery (1969), and Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970) as well as the TV movie The New Maverick (1978) with James Garner and Jack Kelly.

In 1969, Averback bought a home in the Racquet Club Estates neighborhood of Palm Springs, California,[10] He died on October 14, 1997, at age 76,[11] and was buried in Westwood Memorial Park.