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1 | [when he played football at the University of Maryland]: My football career was not going where I wanted it to go. I wasn't going to be Jim Brown. |
2 | [on his firing from Matlock (1986)]: I was still drinking and drugging. There is just so much of that they are going to tolerate on a multimillion-dollar show. |
3 | I was a functioning, executive-minded alcoholic. In Hollywood, especially, I drank lots of high-end cognac. Never mind how old I was at the time, I was a black kid with a lot of money.... I never stuck anything in my arm because I'd grown up in New York at a time when I saw guys older than me turning into ghosts because of heroin. But I drank, I smoked.... It became a lifestyle for me through the '70s and '80s, and it caught up with me. I lost a wife during that period and keep myself medicated through drink and drugs. When you take days off from shooting schedules as I did during Matlock (1986), you're going to get fired. Thing is, I had been three months sober when they fired me because I'd been in rehab on an outpatient basis. I've never had a relapse. It made me mad enough to stay sober. |
4 | Whatever's happened to me over the years, I know that I've always been a guy who's been able to achieve what I've desired because I was willing to make a sacrifice. Whether it was on the football field and there were 12 more yards I needed to get or whether it was in the studio for this movie when it would get 112 degrees in hotel rooms where we were working ... God blessed me with these gifts. And I'm willing to do the work to make them manifest. |
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1 | Lives in Amityville, New York [September 2007] |
2 | Acting mentors were Andy Griffith and Victor French. |
3 | Had missed 7 episodes or had limited appearances during the third season of Matlock (1986), because he was sent to a rehabilitation clinic for his drug and alcohol abuse, where he stayed on an outpatient basis. |
4 | Before he was a successful actor, he worked with the inaugural theater group at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., where he conducted workshops as a founding member of the D.C. Black Repertory Company. |
5 | After he married Linda Copling, he became a traveling evangelist, and he and his wife spent the next decade preaching in gospel musicals. |
6 | At Copiague High School, he was the star of the track team, with the encouragement of his mother. |
7 | Had lost his father when he was only 12. |
8 | Graduated from Copiague High School in Copiague, Suffolk County, New York, in 1967. |
9 | Worked with Dick Van Dyke twice on Matlock (1986) and Diagnosis Murder (1993). |
10 | Was approached by Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove as their first choice for a co-starring role opposite Andy Griffith in the long-running drama Matlock (1986). He accepted and won the role. |
11 | Was fired from Matlock (1986), due to his serious drug and alcohol abuse in 1989. |
12 | Best known by the public for his starring role as Tyler Hudson on Matlock (1986). |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Handle Your Business | 2015 | TV Movie | Bone Daddy (as Kene Holliday) |
The Human War | 2011 | | Elijah (as Kene Holliday) |
Everybody's Fine | 2009 | | Butcher (as Kene Holliday) |
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony | 2009 | Video Game | Saxophone Player (voice) |
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned | 2009 | Video Game | Saxophone Player - Integrity 2.0 (voice, as Kene Holliday) |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent | 2008 | TV Series | Cold Case Detective |
Great World of Sound | 2007 | | Clarence (as Kene Holliday) |
The Immaculate Misconception | 2006 | | Simon (as Kene Holliday) |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | 2005 | TV Series | Coach Veneziano |
Hope & Faith | 2004 | TV Series | Guard |
The District | 2000 | TV Series | George Simmons |
Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story | 2000 | TV Movie | Jack Calloway (as Kene Holliday) |
Any Day Now | 1999 | TV Series | |
Profiler | 1999 | TV Series | David Salinger |
Bulworth | 1998 | | Man in Church #1 (as Kene Holliday) |
The Wayans Bros. | 1996 | TV Series | Harold |
Dangerous Minds | 1996 | TV Series | Reverend Washington |
Sparks | 1996 | TV Series | Melvin |
Diagnosis Murder | 1996 | TV Series | Burke's Producer |
Stormy Weathers | 1992 | TV Movie | Rashid (as Kene Holliday) |
Jake and the Fatman | 1992 | TV Series | Montgomery DuBois |
Doogie Howser, M.D. | 1991 | TV Series | Bert Dexter |
The Josephine Baker Story | 1991 | TV Movie | Sidney Bechet (as Kene Holliday) |
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer | 1990 | TV Movie | Joe Dillon (as Kene Holliday) |
Matlock | 1986-1990 | TV Series | Tyler Hudson |
If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium | 1987 | TV Movie | Bob Sperling (as Kene Holliday) |
G.I. Joe: The Movie | 1987 | Video | Roadblock (voice, as Kene Holliday) |
InHumanoids | 1986 | TV Series | Smokin' Joe Abdullah |
G.I. Joe | 1985-1986 | TV Series | Roadblock |
G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! | 1986 | TV Movie | Roadblock (voice, as Kene Holliday) |
The Fall Guy | 1986 | TV Series | Lt. Joe Budd |
Badge of the Assassin | 1985 | TV Movie | Albert Washington (as Kene Holliday) |
Hollywood Beat | 1985 | TV Series | J.T. Rainey |
Hill Street Blues | 1982-1985 | TV Series | Vernon Lee / Pablo Jackson |
Benson | 1980-1984 | TV Series | Earl, Benson's Brother / Jake |
No Small Affair | 1984 | | Walt Cronin (as Kene Holliday) |
G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra | 1984 | TV Mini-Series | Roadblock |
The Philadelphia Experiment | 1984 | | Major Clark (as Kene Holliday) |
The Sheriff and the Astronaut | 1984 | TV Movie | Al Stark |
The Best of Times | 1983 | TV Series | Don Kingman (as Kene Holliday) |
The Greatest American Hero | 1981-1983 | TV Series | Ballentine / DA Arnold Turner |
Farrell for the People | 1982 | TV Movie as Kene Holliday | |
The Jeffersons | 1982 | TV Series | Officer Kenwood |
Hart to Hart | 1982 | TV Series | William Dean |
Dangerous Company | 1982 | TV Movie | Bill Washington (as Kene Holliday) |
The Two Lives of Carol Letner | 1981 | TV Movie | Andy (as Kene Holliday) |
Chicago Story | 1981 | TV Movie | Dr. Jeff House (as Kene Holliday) |
See China and Die | 1981 | TV Movie | Sgt. Alvin Sykes (as Kene Holliday) |
The Last Song | 1980 | TV Movie | Doug (as Kene Holliday) |
Nobody's Perfect | 1980 | TV Series | Henderson |
Soap | 1980 | TV Series | Eddie Coleman |
ABC Afterschool Specials | 1979 | TV Series | Coach Sanford |
Quincy M.E. | 1979 | TV Series | Father Tony Hamilton |
Lou Grant | 1979 | TV Series | J.D. |
Carter Country | 1977-1979 | TV Series | Sergeant Curtis Baker |
Roots: The Next Generations | 1979 | TV Mini-Series | Detroit |
The Incredible Hulk | 1978 | TV Series | Paul |
Kojak | 1976 | TV Series | Assistant D.A. Dunn |
Love, American Style | 1971 | TV Series segment "Love and the Second Time" - Love and the Baker's Half Dozen/Love and the New Roommate/Love and the Rug/Love and the Second Time 1971 ... segment "Love and the Second Time" as Kene Holliday | |
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