Ed Herlihy
American newsreel narrator, radio and television announcer (1909-1999) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edward Joseph Herlihy (August 14, 1909 – January 30, 1999)[1] 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.[2] 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".[3]
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Ed Herlihy | |
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Born | Edward Joseph Herlihy (1909-08-14)August 14, 1909 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | January 30, 1999(1999-01-30) (aged 89) New York City, U.S. |
Spouse | Fredi Herlihy |
Children | 4 |
Career | |
Show | Radio: America's Town Meeting of the Air The Big Show The Falcon Mr. District Attorney Recollections At 30 The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour Television: The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour Kraft Television Theatre Your Show of Shows All My Children As the World Turns |
Station | WLOE, Boston |
Network | NBC |
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