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No more Time to Make The Donuts: Michael Vale dies
by Joel Keller, posted Dec 28th 2005 7:32AM
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.]
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