Kene Holiday

Kene Holliday is an American actor who has worked in stage, film and television. Born in Copiague, New York, on Long Island, he took up acting at the University of Maryland after a theater history class caught his interest, and in 1969 he played Yank in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, becoming the first Black actor to take a leading part on the university's main stage. His first professional work came with the Inaugural Theater Group at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, and he was among the founders of the D.C. Black Repertory Company. A role in David Rabe's Streamers took him to Los Angeles, where he guest-starred on many series before his first regular part, Sgt. Curtis Baker on Carter Country from 1977 to 1979. He went on to play Tyler Hudson, Matlock's private investigator, opposite Andy Griffith, voiced Roadblock in the G.I. Joe cartoons, and earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Great World of Sound.