16 Facts About Ed Herlihy

Edward Joseph Herlihy was an American newsreel narrator for Universal-International.

Ed Herlihy was 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.

Ed Herlihy was the voice of Kraft Foods radio and television commercials from the 1940s through the early 1980s.

Ed Herlihy was immediately successful in network radio, at that time in its sharpest ascendancy.

Ed Herlihy was the announcer for many radio shows from the 1930s, to the 1950s, among them: America's Town Meeting, The Big Show, The Falcon, Mr District Attorney, and Just Plain Bill.

Ed Herlihy became the host of The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour on radio in 1948, remaining its announcer when the show went to television.

Ed Herlihy continued his success in the new medium: his early television credits included Sid Caesar's hit Your Show of Shows and soap operas As the World Turns and All My Children.

Ed Herlihy was the host of Recollections At 30, which was a special NBC Radio series created for the network's 30th birthday.

In 1947 Ed Herlihy began his long association with Kraft Foods on radio, and continued it when the company sponsored the Kraft Television Theater on television in the 1950s.

Ed Herlihy was noted for his ability to ad lib through commercials when dramatic presentations ran too long or too short.

Ed Herlihy took the man's arm, and the man said it was a beautiful day.

When he worked for Sid Caesar in the 1950s, Ed Herlihy met Woody Allen, then a fledgling writer.

Ed Herlihy appeared in road company stage productions outside New York City, including Camelot, Good News and Damn Yankees.

Ed Herlihy was in Watergate: The Musical, in Atlanta in 1982; Herlihy played Senator Sam Ervin, a role for which he spent $40 for a pair of bushy eyebrows, only to find that they would not move up and down.

Ed Herlihy died of natural causes at his home in Manhattan, New York City, aged 89.

The Ed Herlihy family is one of the supporters of the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey; the foyer, with its oil portrait of Ed Herlihy, is named in his memory.