Fred Grossinger best known by his Hollywood name, Fred Holliday, was a stage, film, and television actor renowned for his all-American face who starred in over 1,000 TV commercials from the late 1950s through the 1980s.

Holliday made guest appearances on more than 150 television shows. He was one of the Mighty Carson Art Players on NBC's Tonight Show for 12 years, performed in the daytime dramas as Ron Wyche in Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...

, as the manager at the Capwell Hotel in Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara (TV series)

Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on July 30, 1984, and last aired on January 15, 1993. The show revolved around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California...

, in nighttime dramas such as John Atherton in Dallas

Dallas (TV series)

Dallas is an American serial drama/prime time soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing...

and was host of a short-lived daytime show, The Girl in My Life

The Girl in My Life

The Girl In My Life was a daytime television show spotlighting women who made a difference in people's lives. The show was hosted by Fred Holliday and the announcers were Bob Warren and John Harlan. The program aired on ABC during the 1973-1974 TV season....

, on ABC in the early 1970s. His movie appearances included Airport, A Patch of Blue

A Patch of Blue

A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between a black man, Gordon , and a blind white female teenager, Selina , and the problems that plague their relationship when they fall in love in a racially divided America...

, Edge of the Axe

Edge of the Axe

Edge of the Axe is a 1988 made-for-TV horror film about a masked maniac murdering people in a small Northern Californian suburb.-Cast:*Barton Faolks as Gerald Martin*Christina Marie Lane as Lillian Nebbs*Page Moseley as Richard Simmons...

and A Guide for the Married Man

A Guide for the Married Man

A Guide for the Married Man is a 1967 American bedroom farce comedy film starring Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, and Inger Stevens. It was directed by Gene Kelly. It features a large number of cameos, including Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Terry-Thomas, Jayne Mansfield, Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Joey...

. He played in more than 50 Broadway and regional theater productions.

Professionally, Holliday served on the local board of directors of the Los Angeles chapter of AFTRA

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is a performers' union that represents a wide variety of talent, including actors in radio and television, as well as radio and television announcers and newspersons, singers and recording artists , promo and voice-over announcers and other...

 for 10 years, as well as serving on the national board of AFTRA. He was also active in the Screen Actors Guild

Screen Actors Guild

The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...

.

Holliday was married to Judy Kapler. He had one daughter, Debra Rouse Grossinger, from his first marriage to Nancy King. He died of a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

 when he was 59.

External links

• Fred Holliday on the Johnny Carson Show Jpeg formatted image file, poor quality