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Kene Holliday is a Actor American born on 25 june 1949 at Copiague (USA)

Kene Holliday

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Birth name Kenneth Earl Holliday
Nationality USA
Birth 25 june 1949 (74 years) at Copiague (USA)

Kenneth Earl "Kene" Holliday (born June 25, 1949) is an American character actor of stage, film, and television. He is best known for his role as Ben Matlock's original private investigator, Tyler Hudson on Andy Griffith's hit television series Matlock and as Sgt. Curtis Baker on Carter Country from 1977 until 1979.

Biography

Holliday, a product of the Copiague area of Long Island, New York was raised in a Christian home, born into a Baptist family. At age 12 he lost his father. With the encouragement of his mother he participated in track at Copiague High School where he was part of the Fantastic Four Relay Team and was the star of his football team. He was nicknamed as Mr. Hotshot and was known as a "scoring machine" on the football field. He graduated in 1967 and attended University of Maryland on a full scholarship. As he recalled, times were turbulent and the football team was preparing to go on strike against the NCAA over a change in coaches.

He was "jazzed" by a class he took related to the history of theater and acting became his new passion. In 1969, as an undergraduate he played Yank in The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill. He was the first black person to perform in a leading role on the college's "main stage."

After graduation from college his first work was with the Inaugural Theater Group at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. There, he conducted workshops as a founding member of the D.C. Black Repertory Company. In 1975 he was fired from his job because of his continued problems with drugs and alcohol. His chemical abuse continued for the next 14 years. However, despite those problems he starred in the role of Carlyle in David Rabe's Vietnam War-era play Streamers at the Lincoln Theatre.

That play led him to Los Angeles in 1976 where he guest-starred on several shows such as: Kojak, What's Happening!!, The Incredible Hulk, Quincy, M.E., Lou Grant, Soap, its spin-off series, Benson, The Jeffersons, The Fall Guy, Hart to Hart, and Doogie Howser, M.D. He guest starred on many other shows, also. His first "featuring" television series was Carter Country where he co-starred with Victor French as Sgt. Curtis Baker from 1977 until 1979. He also was featured in Roots: The Next Generations and starred in a series of pilots which failed to make it to the air as regular series. Kene provided the voice of the character Roadblock in the 1980s cartoon series, G.I. Joe and 1987's G.I. Joe: The Movie. In 1985 he appeared in the TV film Badge of the Assassin.

In early 1986, while providing the voice of Roadblock he received a phone call from producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove. He was their first choice to play Matlock's original private investigator Tyler Hudson on the Matlock series. He would play opposite TV veteran Andy Griffith who was "Matlock." Holliday, who knew all the characters from The Andy Griffith Show, but only had watched the sitcom occasionally accepted the role which shot him to TV stardom. For those three seasons he was a regular, Kene maintained a wonderful on and off screen chemistry and relationship with Griffith. That chemistry continued even when Griffith was too temperamental to work with even himself. Also, Holliday had traveled with Griffith almost everywhere while filming the Matlock series. Early in the third season, Holliday's behavior had become erratic. In addition to arriving to work late, his chemical use became apparent and had finally caught up with him. Holliday was eventually forced it to rehab on an outpatient basis. Going in to treatment made his schedule even more difficult and led to his missing 7 episodes altogether. Even though Holliday had maintained 3 months sobriety, he was fired from the series and was replaced by Clarence Gilyard who played a similar role until he left in 1993.

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Filmography of Kene Holliday (10 films)

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Actor

Everybody's Fine, 1h39
Directed by Kirk Jones (réalisateur britannique)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Kate Moennig, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Rating70% 3.547713.547713.547713.547713.54771
Frank Goode (Robert De Niro), a recently widowed retiree, is getting ready for his children, David (Austin Lysy), Rosie (Drew Barrymore), Amy (Kate Beckinsale) and Robert (Sam Rockwell) to come visit him. One by one though, each of his children call to cancel on him at the last minute. Feeling a bit down by the rejections, Frank decides to head out on a cross-country trip, visiting each of his kids, despite warnings against travel from his doctor. He is chronically ill with cardiac and respiratory problems from his life work making PVC-covered power lines. He deceives his children about his health, telling them that he is fine.
Great World of Sound, 1h46
Directed by Craig Zobel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Actors Pat Healy, Kene Holliday, Rebecca Mader, Collette Wolfe
Roles Clarence
Rating66% 3.343523.343523.343523.343523.34352
The film stars Pat Healy and Kene Holliday as Martin and Clarence, two men who get involved in a record industry talent scouting scheme commonly known as song sharking. In the film, real people performed in the audition scenes without knowing it was actually a film shoot. The interactions between the lead actors and the unsuspecting musicians were recorded with hidden cameras. This was integrated into the final product, resulting in a blend of fact and fiction.
Bulworth
Bulworth (1998)
, 1h48
Directed by Warren Beatty
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about suicide, Political films, Children's films
Actors Halle Berry, Warren Beatty, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Sean Astin, Paul Sorvino
Roles Man in Church #1
Rating67% 3.3977353.3977353.3977353.3977353.397735
A down-on-his-luck Democratic Senator, Jay Bulworth is losing his bid for re-election to a fiery young populist. Bulworth's socialist views, formed in the 1960s and 1970s, have lost favor with voters, so he has conceded to more conservative politics and to accepting donations from big corporations. In addition, though he and his wife have been having affairs with each other's knowledge for years, they must still present a happy façade in the interest of maintaining a good public image.
The Josephine Baker Story, 2h10
Directed by Brian Gibson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical, Romance
Actors Lynn Whitfield, David Dukes, Rubén Blades, Craig T. Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Kene Holliday
Roles Sidney Bechet
Rating70% 3.544153.544153.544153.544153.54415
Née à St. Louis, Missouri, Joséphine Baker est née pauvre, mais elle a atteint la célébrité et la fortune grâce à ses performances érotiques et exotiques. Débutant sur le circuit américain de vaudeville, le succès amène Joséphine à Paris où sa danse semi-nue fait sensation sur la scène internationale. Grâce à ses mariages avec un pseudo-compteur et chef d'orchestre italien, à son lien avec l'officier de l'armée Sydney Williams, la vie de Joséphine est une montagne russe d'amour et de rejet de ses amants et de son pays. Mais à moitié nue, ou de la tête aux pieds avec des paillettes, en tenue de combat ou en haillons, sa beauté et son ambition ont fait en sorte que l'on se souviendra toujours de Josephine Baker comme la première, et peut-être la plus aimée, des véritables stars internationales.
G.I. Joe: The Movie, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Animation
Actors Don Johnson, Burgess Meredith, Charles Adler, Jack Angel, Jackson Beck, Bill Ratner
Roles Roadblock (voice)
Rating70% 3.5441253.5441253.5441253.5441253.544125
While Cobra Commander and Serpentor blame each other's stewardship of Cobra as the root cause of the organization's failures, Pythona, a woman from the secret civilization Cobra-La, infiltrates the Terror Drome. While there, she reveals to Serpentor that Cobra-La was responsible for inspiring Doctor Mindbender to create Serpentor through dream manipulation. At her urging, Serpentor plans to capture G.I. Joe's latest weapon, the Broadcast Energy Transmitter (BET).
Badge of the Assassin, 2h
Directed by Mel Damski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Politic
Actors James Woods, Yaphet Kotto, Alex Rocco, Pam Grier, David Harris, Steven Keats
Roles Albert Washington
Rating60% 3.048573.048573.048573.048573.04857
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The policemen were gunned down in cold blood by the self-styled terrorists, who first elude to the law and then, for want of crucial evidence, conviction for their crime. Assistant District Attorney, Robert Tanenbaum, the man responsible for bringing the three cop killers to justice leads a tireless nationwide investigation that moves to San Francisco, New Orleans and Mississippi and finally back to a climax in a New York courtroom, during the desperate search for the killers. Tanenbaum is aided by his partner, a resourceful and equally determined detective, Cliff Fenton.
The Philadelphia Experiment, 1h42
Directed by Stewart Raffill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Time travel films
Actors Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas, Bobby Di Cicco, Louise Latham, Ralph Manza
Roles Major Clark
Rating60% 3.049993.049993.049993.049993.04999
In 1943 United States Navy sailors David Herdeg and Jim Parker are assigned to the destroyer escort USS Eldridge during a project to make it invisible to radar. The ship is in Philadelphia harbor, filled with equipment from a team led by Dr. James Longstreet. During the experiment the equipment begins malfunctioning. Observers simply see the ship disappear. David and Jim try to shut down the generator but receive severe electric shocks when they touch anything. The two men jump overboard to escape.
See China and Die, 1h40
Directed by Larry Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Esther Elizabeth Rolle, Kene Holliday, Frank Converse, Paul Dooley, Andrew Duggan, Laurence Luckinbill
Roles Sgt. Alvin Sykes
Rating65% 3.2693453.2693453.2693453.2693453.269345
A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China.