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No more Time to Make The Donuts: Michael Vale dies

Posted Dec 28th 2005 7:32AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Talent, Commercials

It's a bad week for "That Guys". On the heels of the death of character actor Vincent Schiavelli comes word that Michael Vale, best known as Dunkin Donuts' long-running mascot Fred the Baker, has died at 83. He passed away on Saturday due to complications from diabetes. In addition to the DD ad campaign, where he wearily woke up early every day moaning "Time to make the donuts," Vale also played sour cream maker Sam Breakstone in another long-running series of ads for Breakstone's.

[Thanks to Tony OB for the tip.]

Tags: celebrities, death, dunkin donuts, fred the baker, michael vale, sam breakstone, television, tv

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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12-28-2005 @ 8:39AM

Bebop said...

He was a diabetic? It was those friggen' doughnuts that did him in!!! Damn you Dunkin' Dounuts, murderers!

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2

12-28-2005 @ 2:50PM

Jason Anderson said...

Oh no! :(



You know you're getting old when all the famous faces you remember as a kid start dropping like flies. :(



How many did we lose this year?

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3

12-28-2005 @ 5:11PM

Alex said...

I believe that he used to be the man who sold cottage cheese not sour cream. I remember him in the bathtub with a white little dog and his wife would yell at him.

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12-28-2005 @ 5:43PM

Joel Keller said...

Alex, Breakstone's had both cottage cheese and sour cream. Wasn't he in the ads for both?

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