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Ed Herlihy

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American newsreel narrator (1909-1999)

United StatesActorsLived 1909 to 1999 · aged 89
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Edward Joseph Herlihy was an American newsreel narrator for Universal-International. He was also a long-time radio and television announcer for NBC, hosting The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour in the 1940s and 1950, and was briefly interim announcer on The Tonight Show in 1962.

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Filmography 19

Who Framed Roger Rabbit1988 · ★ 7.5
The King of Comedy1982 · ★ 7.8
Malcolm X1992 · ★ 7.6
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment1985 · ★ 6.1
Pee-wee's Big Adventure1985 · ★ 6.5
Zelig1983 · ★ 7.4
Don't Drink the Water1994 · ★ 5.6
A Fine Mess1986
A Long Time Till Dawn1953
Sports on the Silver Screen1997
Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?1976
Yesterday's Witness1976
Knights of the Highway1952
The Republic Pictures Story1991
Suspense Story: Nat'l Press Club Hears Hitchcock1963
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles1970
The Flood of ‘551995
Communism Condemned1947
Thundering Rails1950

24 credits on file

Television 5

Saturday Night Live1975
The Bob Hope Show1950
Kraft Television Theatre1947
It's Garry Shandling's Show1986
The Perry Como Show1956

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Edward Joseph Herlihy was an American newsreel narrator for Universal-International. He was also a long-time radio and television announcer for NBC, hosting The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour in the 1940s and 1950, and was briefly interim announcer on The Tonight Show in 1962. He was also the voice of Kraft Foods radio and television commercials from the 1940s through the early 1980s. When he died in 1999, his obituary in The New York Times said he was "A Voice of Cheer and Cheese".

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United States
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Actor
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deceased
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Lived 1909 to 1999 · aged 89
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