Fred Silverman was an American television executive and producer.

He worked as an executive at all of the "Big Three" television networks, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as the series Scooby-Doo, All in the Family, The Waltons, and Charlie's Angels, as well as the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots, and Shōgun.

For his success in programming wildly popular shows, Time magazine declared him “The Man with the Golden Gut" in 1977.

Fred Silverman was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1999.

Silverman died January 30, 2020, in Pacific Palisades, California. He was 82.