Edward Herrmann

Intelligent, classy, sophisticated, and refined. I cannot say a bad thing about him.

I saw him as Polonius once. Amazing. After his character's abrupt departure, the show was not the same.

I met him years ago at a horror film convention. One of the nicest celebs I’ve ever met at one of those things.

R3 For the Lost Boys?

[quote] I saw him as Polonius once.

Eric Porter also played Polonius.

The dad in Richie Rich

Ed Hermann is the kind of actor that Honorary Awards are made for, a fantastic actor who lends class and talent to everything he does, but rarely reaps the recognition. See also Hal Holbrook.

He was very good in everything he did. Every time I see his picture, I can immediately hear his voice in my head.

We used to attend parties that he frequented (CT). He seemed lovely.

Love him. For a while it seemed like he was in every movie, and he was always great.

[quote][R3] For the Lost Boys?

Yes. He even told me stories about being on set and how taxing the make-up was to wear.

Hung like a 2L coke bottle

He was a good Nelson Rockefeller in Nixon

[quote]Ed Hermann is the kind of actor that Honorary Awards are made for, a fantastic actor who lends class and talent to everything he does, but rarely reaps the recognition. See also Hal Holbrook.

R7, I can't go along with Hal Holbrook (whom I always disliked), but Ed Hermann? 100%. I would also put Fritz Weaver, James Rebhorn, and Keith David in your category.

[quote] James Rebhorn

James Rebhorn?

David Hyde Pierce, too

I liked him as Wilson in Home Improvement.

Loved him as the vampire dad in The Lost Boys.

R17 wrong actor

Didn't he do a bit of nudity in Big Business? Or am I thinking of Fred Ward?

He seemed jazzed to find himself in a show that was a hit with younger audiences (Gilmore Girls). He had a daughter who was younger than you’d expect, so that was probably nice for him.

R21 Yes. By all accounts Herrmann and Kelly Bishop were nothing by profession and courteous to everyone on set. True class acts.

And he frequently worked on stage throughout his career. I saw him in The Philadelphia Story opposite Blythe Danner and a very young Cynthia Nixon and he was wonderful. Sam Waterston is another actor who never seems to get any recognition but he and Hermann worked constantly and landed excellent parts.

I really liked him since I first saw him in the miniseries Eleanor and Franklin. He was the definitive "FDR"; first playing him in Eleanor and Franklin (1974), then the sequel, The White House Years (1976), then again in the movie version of Annie (1982), before playing him one last time, a voiceover role in Ken Burns' The Roosevelts (2014)

Any relation to Pee Wee?

His last Broadway performance was with Danner in "The Deep Blue Sea" (1998). The next year when they appeared together in A.R. Gurney's "Ancestral Voices," the Times said, "These two first class actors have been paired together so often that they hardly have to act to seem like a comfortable married couple." They also starred together in the TV movies "The Lou Gehrig Story" and "Saint Maybe". They were born a few months apart in 1943.

Together on stage in Shaw's "Candida."

He was one of my favorite character actors and he didn't get enough credit when he was alive.

I work from home and I listen to audiobooks and podcasts when I'm not in video meetings. Last year, I went with a friend to go through some of her grandmother's book and CD audiobook collections. Her dad decided to give away some of the stuff to the people interested. There was an audiobook set of Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. I saw that Edward Herrman was the narrator. I wasn't a huge fan of the movie version of Unbroken. Anyway, I took the set home and listened to the audiobook a couple of weeks later and Hermann was a really good narrator.

I always wondered 'what might have been...' with dear Edward...might I have spawned a decent, civil, human being instead of...well...you know what...we all know. We all know...

He narrates The Bully Pulpit: Roosevelt, Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

I just wish he would have narrated Team of Rivals by Goodwin. Instead it is the intolerable voice of Suzanne Toren. She was completely wrong for the book.

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Seen multiple times as a lawyer on "Law and Order"

On December 31, 2014, Herrmann died from brain cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, at the age of 71.

He was also on The Good Wife

Loved him in everything he did. I particularly liked his turn as the former mentor-turned adversary-turned client to one of the partners on “The Practice”.

Ken Burns made a documentary called Death from Cancer?

It was just Cancer.

He was the focus of my favorite episodes in my favorite show-

Father Joseph McCabe in St. Elsewhere.

Perfection

He was really good in an episode of MASH in 1980 playing a doctor who became shell shocked while performing surgery at the MASH 4077.

He narrated a series on automobile history that I really enjoyed. He also had a small part in the Bette Midler/Lily Tomlin comedy Big Business, playing a preening subordinate to Midler’s character. He had some very funny scenes with the awesome Fred Ward.

I always assumed he was gay. Sounds like I was wrong.

Was he a Republican or Democrat?

Yes.

Poor man’s John Larroquette

R42 I think you mean that in reverse.

Definitely a Dem by the crowd he hung with in CT.

But he plays Republicans so well

He was the last celeb to die in 2014. His death didn't make much of a splash because by that time most news reporters were already disco napping before New Year's Eve.

This, "The estate of Edward Herrmann has licensed his synthesized voice for audiobook narration through DeepZen.io from which the estate is granted royalties." is the last line from Herrmann's Wiki page.

C-R-E-E-P-Y. Now we know that celebrities will never die, but we with us always in the present, which is good for the family's bottom line.

R45 says that about the man most famous for playing FDR?! Get a clue.

That is a lovely tribute you wrote op. You are a loyal admirer.

R38, he and Fred were so cute in that film. Odd, since I had never thought either one was attractive.

R38, see R20.