10. Doug E. Doug, Jamaica (Griffin from “Cosby,” Douglas from “Where I Live”)
Best known as Sanka from Cool Runnings, Jamaican-American actor Douglas “Doug E. Doug” Bourne starred in the short-lived and semi-autobiographical sitcom Where I Live, set in Harlem. Though the show, which aired on ABC Friday nights in 1993, lasted for less than a season, it’s notable for being the only network TV series in the US to show an explicitly Caribbean-American family. Trinidadian actor Sullivan Walker—who played Dr. James Harmon, one of Cliff Huxtable’s doctor buddies on The Cosby Show—co-starred as Doug’s hard-working father. Doug E. Doug would have a longer run as the character Griffin on Cosby, Bill Cosby’s post-Cosby Show series from the late ’90s.