Edward Herrmann, "Gilmore Girls" and "Lost Boys" Actor, Dies at 71

[MrsMatt]

Source: Variety

Edward Herrmann, an actor perhaps best known for playing Richard Gilmore on “Gilmore Girls,” has died, his manager confirmed to Buzzfeed News. He was 71.

Also known for roles in “The Lost Boys” and 1976 TV movie “Eleanor and Franklin,” the actor had been previously diagnosed with brain cancer. His family told TMZ that he had been in the ICU in a New York hospital for the past three and a half weeks, and they decided to take him off the respirator when his condition did not improve.


Read more: http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/edward-herrmann-dead-gilmore-girls-lost-boys-1201390186/

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This makes me so sad . . .

[Skittles]

1. his role as a surgeon on M*A*S*H, having a breakdown because of the carnage

very powerful

[Glimmer of Hope]

2. I need to dig that up. Loved him on Gilmore Girls.

[Skittles]

8. really wonderful actor

http://aftermash.blogspot.com/2009/10/episode-186-heal-thyself.html

[truebrit71]

10. One of their best episodes...

....RIP

[Cooley Hurd]

18. That was one of the best episodes...

...of HUNDREDS of GREAT episodes of M*A*S*H.

[Siwsan]

3. He was one of my all time favorite character actors!

This makes me very sad, too.

[TNNurse]

4. He had many wonderful roles.

Look him up on IMDB. He was a prolific and impressive actor. My sympathies to his family. I will miss him.

[Beaverhausen]

5. He played Grant in Overboard and Father McCabe in St. Elsewhere

So many great roles.

[Faygo Kid]

6. Great narrator, too.

Numerous excellent narration for shows on PBS and The History Channel.

[Brigid]

35. Yes.

I have several of those in my collection. RIP, Edward Hermann.

[Doctor_J]

7. very versatile. FDR to herman Munster. rip

Rec

[progressoid]

9. And recently on The Good Wife

RIP

[onehandle]

11. To quote Rory Gilmore...

'Sucko.'

RIP

[Aristus]

12. We all say we 'love' certain actors,

but Hermann was one of the few I actually did love. I'm so sorry to see him go; and at 71, which is no one's idea of old anymore...

[BumRushDaShow]

13. R.I.P.

So many things he guest-starred in over the years. So sorry to see this. Condolences to his family.

[DeSwiss]

14. K&R

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[Laxman]

15. The First Movie I Remember Him In.....

was Take Down. Back in 1979 when we first got cable T.V. HBO showed it over and over. It seems so dated now but I must have watched it 20 times.

[lastlib]

16. Yeah, I LOVED that movie! It's one of my DVD wants.......

sad to lose the man.

[marym625]

20. Don't think I have ever heard of it

I will have to check it out. Thanks for the link

[Cooley Hurd]

17. Jesus...

You just could NOT let me leave on any sort of high note, 2014... COULD you?????


Damn it!!!!

Cross gently, Edward.

[marym625]

19. awe

So sad. What a loss.

[AngryDem001]

21. I remember him from Dodge commercials in the 90s.

RIP.

Brain Cancer.

[underpants]

22. When my wife was pregnant with our daughter thanks to DU I recommended "Gilmore Girls"

She was on bed rest for a month so she needed something to watch. She watched the first 4 seasons the first day and the Carol King intro song literally made our daughter kick. Once she was born when that song came on she used to start fidgeting and would smile.

Loved that show. He still reminded me of FDR and he was a staple on the early (and later) History Channel documentaries.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

32. Your wife was pregnant with your daughter thanks to DU?

I'm not sure you've shared this story before.

[underpants]

36. ,

Thanks to DU I knew about Gilmore Girls

[Lochloosa]

43. As usual, everyone pitched in.

[carolinayellowdog]

23. Much appreciated his FDR in The Roosevelts documentary

For those of us who had seen him portray FDR in the 1970s, it was great to hear his voice as Franklin once again, which really enriched the latest Ken Burns masterpiece.

[Cooley Hurd]

24. It TRULY did!!!!

I certainly noticed, as well!

[countryjake]

37. That's what I immediately thought of when I found this thread...

He just finished doing Roosevelt again, and now he's gone. So sorry to hear this.

[LuvNewcastle]

25. Sorry to hear that.

I hope he wasn't in a lot of pain. I was always pleased to see him in any movie or show I saw.

[Boomerproud]

26. He was born to play FDR

Condolences to his family. Gentle passage, Mr. Herrmann.

[Chasstev365]

27. There was a MASH episode in which he did an amazing performance.

Anyone remember when he played a top notch doctor who comes to the 4077, but has a mental breakdown outside the operating tent? "I wash and wash, but I just can't get the blood off." He will be greatly missed.

[Unknown Beatle]

28. So sad.

Last day of 2014 and another great dies.

RIP Mr. Herrmann

[Kaleva]

29. One of the all time great character actors. RIP!

[GGJohn]

30. So sad, and on the last day of the year.

One of my favorites starring him was Harry's War.
RIP Mr. Herrmann, cross gently and you will be missed.

[Scairp]

31. The Lost Boys

Love that film. RIP Edward Herrmann.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

33. One of my all time favorite character actors. RIP.

[Liberal_in_LA]

34. i had to look for a picture, wasnt familiar with the name

[GreatGazoo]

39. complete list of film roles

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001346/?ref_=nv_sr_1#actor

[appalachiablue]

38. Terrific performances, wonderful actor. He's in 'The Paper Chase' (1975) with Tim Bottoms about

student frenzies at Harvard Law School. TCM showed it today, no wonder. Jane Alexander who played Eleanor is a great actor, was head of the NEA (Natl. Endowment for the Arts) in DC, 1994-1997, appointed by Clinton.

[muriel_volestrangler]

40. Hermann on (probably) Ayn Rand:

RIP Edward Herrmann. He was a terrific character actor — Gilmore Girls, The Lost Boys, Overboard, Annie — and one of the very best narrators of audio books I’ve ever heard. Herrmann recorded dozens of books, and he makes almost any of them a delight to listen to.

Almost any of them. “What makes a book really painful and even sickening to record is the shallowness of the thinking and the childishness of the philosophy of life it expresses,” Herrmann said, without naming names, sometime after he finished recording Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/01/01/happy-new-year-etc/

[sorechasm]

41. So relieved to hear how much he hated narrating what became the Tea Party Bible.

Ironically, his voice educated millions of Tea Partiers too lazy to read a book written at a 6th grade level.

[cascadiance]

42. The Lost Boys was always a spooky film for me, and had weird parallels with reality...

One of the premises of the plot was that the vampires were holed up in the remains of a hotel destroyed by the 1906 earthquake along the California coast...

http://lostboys.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hotel

What was bizarre is that this movie that featured Santa Cruz as it's location where it was shot came out not long before the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which had its epicenter not far from Santa Cruz, which had a lot of destruction from that earthquake.

What made it weirder for me was that after having a couple of days without power in the bay area then after that earthquake, when I got power back and turned on the television for the first time in a few days, guess what programming first came up on the screen when I turned it on...

The Lost Boys

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

44. He's great in "The Cat's Meow"

as a batshit crazy William Randolph Hearst, at the center of the Oneida scandal

[question everything]

45. R.I.P Edward Hermann

For me, he will always be FDR.