Edward Herrmann, "Gilmore Girls" and "Lost Boys" Actor, Dies at 71
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/
This makes me so sad . . .
Skittles
(153,160 posts)very powerful
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts)....RIP
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...of HUNDREDS of GREAT episodes of M*A*S*H.
Siwsan
(26,262 posts)This makes me very sad, too.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)Look him up on IMDB. He was a prolific and impressive actor. My sympathies to his family. I will miss him.
Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)So many great roles.
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)Numerous excellent narration for shows on PBS and The History Channel.
I have several of those in my collection. RIP, Edward Hermann.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Rec
progressoid
(49,990 posts)RIP
onehandle
(51,122 posts)'Sucko.'
RIP
Aristus
(66,369 posts)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
(128,979 posts)So many things he guest-starred in over the years. So sorry to see this. Condolences to his family.
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Laxman
(2,419 posts)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
(23,233 posts)sad to lose the man.
marym625
(17,997 posts)I will have to check it out. Thanks for the link
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)You just could NOT let me leave on any sort of high note, 2014... COULD you?????
Damn it!!!!
Cross gently, Edward.
marym625
(17,997 posts)So sad. What a loss.
AngryDem001
(684 posts)RIP.
Brain Cancer.
underpants
(182,803 posts)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
(19,835 posts)I'm not sure you've shared this story before.
underpants
(182,803 posts)Thanks to DU I knew about Gilmore Girls
Lochloosa
(16,064 posts)carolinayellowdog
(3,247 posts)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
(26,877 posts)I certainly noticed, as well!
countryjake
(8,554 posts)He just finished doing Roosevelt again, and now he's gone. So sorry to hear this.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)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
(7,952 posts)Condolences to his family. Gentle passage, Mr. Herrmann.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)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
(2,672 posts)Last day of 2014 and another great dies.
RIP Mr. Herrmann
Kaleva
(36,301 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)One of my favorites starring him was Harry's War.
RIP Mr. Herrmann, cross gently and you will be missed.
Scairp
(2,749 posts)Love that film. RIP Edward Herrmann.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)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
(101,316 posts)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
(631 posts)Ironically, his voice educated millions of Tea Partiers too lazy to read a book written at a 6th grade level.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)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
(14,093 posts)as a batshit crazy William Randolph Hearst, at the center of the Oneida scandal
question everything
(47,479 posts)For me, he will always be FDR.