Sad news today coming out of New York as it’s being reported that Lost Boys star Edward Herrmann has passed away at the age of 71.
Edward Herrmann, an Emmy winner best known for his work on The Gilmore Girls, has died, his manager confirmed today, He was 71.
Herrmann died Wednesday morning in a New York hospital after fighting brain cancer. He was in intensive care for the past three-and-a-half weeks.
Herrmann received an Emmy Award as a guest actor for his work on ABC’s The Practice. He is probably best known for portraying Richard Gilmore for seven seasons from 2000-07 on the WB (and later CW) series Gilmore Girls. In all he earned five Emmy nominations, including two for portraying President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the telefilms Eleanor and Franklin (1976) and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977).
Herrmann had amassed well over one hundred roles in television and film in some of the most popular shows ever including M*A*S*H, St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Practice, Oz, Grey’s Anatomy, Law & Order and films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, The Aviator, Nixon, Overboard, The Great Gatsby and more.
To horror fans, Herrmann will forever be known as “Max” the head vampire in the 1987 classic film, The Lost Boys. He also made other genre appearances in My Boyfriend’s Back, Here Come the Munsters (TV Movie) as “Herman Munster” and most recently in The Town That Dreaded Sundown remake.
He was married twice and is survived by three children.
All of us here at Horror Society would like to offer our condolences to Edward Herrmann’s friends and family. He will truly be missed and may you rest in peace.
very sad.. great actor