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Edward Herrmann, an Emmy-winning character actor best known for his seven-season run on Gilmore Girls, died today at a New York hospital where he was being treated for brain cancer. He was 71. The actors manager, Robbie Kass, told Deadline Herrmann died a year after being diagnosed with a Stage 4 glioblastoma brain tumor. Besides being an accomplished actor, Ed was also a true gentleman and a scholar, as well as being an incredibly kind and decent man, Kass said. He will be sorely missed.
Herrmann worked in TV and films for more than 40 years, racking up more than 120 credits. He began his career on the big screen in such movies as The Paper Chase, The Great Gatsby and The Great Waldo Pepper before landing the role of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1976 ABC telefilm Eleanor and Franklin, playing the future president from age 20 to 50. The movie won 11 Emmys and six other noms, one of which was the first of five for Herrmann during his career. He reprised the role the following year for Eleanor And Franklin: The White House Years, which also scored a slew of Emmys and noms including a second for Herrmann. We would play Americas only four-term president again in the 1982 film adaptation of Annie.
The Washington, D.C., native continued to work steadily into the current decade, appearing in films including Best Picture Oscar winner Reds, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Lost Boys, Born Yesterday and Nixon and such TV fare as M*A*S*H, Homicide: Life On The Street and recurring roles on St. Elsewhere (earning a pair of Emmy noms for guest actor), Oz and The Practice, for which he earned his lone Emmy statuette in 1999. The next year, Herrmann began the role that would define his career, playing family patriarch Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls, which ran for six seasons on UPN and one on The CW. He appeared in all 154 episodes of the series alongside Lauren Graham, Alexis Blidel and Melissa McCarthy.
Herrmann also had a career on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Mrs. Warrens Profession (1976). He earned a Tony nom for the 1983 drama Plenty. He appeared on the Great White Way in a half-dozen shows from 1972-98.
Herrmann worked in TV and films for more than 40 years, racking up more than 120 credits. He began his career on the big screen in such movies as The Paper Chase, The Great Gatsby and The Great Waldo Pepper before landing the role of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1976 ABC telefilm Eleanor and Franklin, playing the future president from age 20 to 50. The movie won 11 Emmys and six other noms, one of which was the first of five for Herrmann during his career. He reprised the role the following year for Eleanor And Franklin: The White House Years, which also scored a slew of Emmys and noms including a second for Herrmann. We would play Americas only four-term president again in the 1982 film adaptation of Annie.
The Washington, D.C., native continued to work steadily into the current decade, appearing in films including Best Picture Oscar winner Reds, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Lost Boys, Born Yesterday and Nixon and such TV fare as M*A*S*H, Homicide: Life On The Street and recurring roles on St. Elsewhere (earning a pair of Emmy noms for guest actor), Oz and The Practice, for which he earned his lone Emmy statuette in 1999. The next year, Herrmann began the role that would define his career, playing family patriarch Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls, which ran for six seasons on UPN and one on The CW. He appeared in all 154 episodes of the series alongside Lauren Graham, Alexis Blidel and Melissa McCarthy.
Herrmann also had a career on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Mrs. Warrens Profession (1976). He earned a Tony nom for the 1983 drama Plenty. He appeared on the Great White Way in a half-dozen shows from 1972-98.
