12 Facts About David Holliday

David Holliday was an American Broadway actor and television voice actor.

David Holliday is best known as the voice of Virgil Tracy, pilot of Thunderbird 2, in the first series of Thunderbirds.

David Holliday appeared in the musicals Nevertheless They Laugh, Music Is and Perfectly Frank.

In 1956 David Holliday went to New York and auditioned for a part in West Side Story; he was given the minor role of Glad Hand, and to understudy Tony, in the London production.

David Holliday then went on to play the lead role of Tony in the West End, during this time he met the young David Jason who was working as an electrician at the time doing work on his London flat and give him tickets to the show.

David Holliday had two 1966 London Cast recordings to his credit; one with Jill Martin, and the other with Diane Todd, in the role of Maria.

David Holliday would spend the next ten years commuting between Britain, Europe, the United States, and South Africa where he toured for six months in the role of Macheath in The Beggar's Opera.

In 1967, a meeting in New York with Danish actor-director Preben Kaas led to the role of Frank Butler in the Danish version of the musical Annie Get Your Gun, at the Falconer Theatre in Copenhagen, with Daimi Gentle as Annie; this meant an intensive study in phonetics as the role required David Holliday singing and speaking in Danish, the success of which can be heard on the Danish Cast recording on Metronome Records HLP 10304.

Later in 1968, and back once more in the United States, David Holliday made his Melody Top - Milwaukee Summer Stock Theatre debut in "Fanny" and "Where's Charley".

David Holliday had several film and television credits, including the voice of Virgil Tracy, pilot of Thunderbird 2, in the first series of Thunderbirds.

David Holliday was a five-time nominee and four-time winner of the Carbonell Award for Best Actor in Musicals:.

David Holliday died from cancer on March 26,1999, at the age of 61.