Jay Novello (born Michael Romano, August 22, 1904 – September 2, 1982) was an American radio, film, and television character actor.

[1] He portrayed Cairo police Captain Sam Sabaaya on Rocky Jordan,[1]: 287–288  Jamison the butler on the radio version of Lone Wolf, and Judge Glenn Hunter on One Man's Family.

During his film career, Novello's roles often alternated between pompous or fussy professionals and assorted ethnic characters, such as Italians, Spaniards, or Mexicans.

Among his other movie credits are roles in such films as They Met in Bombay (1941), Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953), The Mad Magician (1954), Lisbon (1956), The Pride and the Passion (1957), This Rebel Breed (1960), The Lost World (1960), Escape from Zahrain (1962), The Man from the Diner's Club (1963), Sylvia (1965), Harum Scarum (1965), What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

In 1960, he guest starred on the TV Western series Bat Masterson, playing a Scottish Sea Captain Angus MacLeod in S2E37's "Barbary Castle".

[citation needed] In 1967 he played LaDuc, a Vichy official in Season 2, Episode 19 "The Decoy Raid" in the TV series The Rat Patrol.

[citation needed] In 1969 he played Okun, an organ grinder, in Season 1, Episode 18 "The Night of Thrombeldinbar" of the science fiction series Land of the Giants.

In 1961, he married Patricia C. Lewis and they remained together until his death from lung cancer in Riverside Hospital, North Hollywood, California, in 1982, aged 78.