Lost Boys Actor Edward Herrmann DIES

Edward Herrmann, the actor best known for his role as lead vampire in The Lost Boys has died.

He was 71.

To a generation of fans, Herrmann was the loving, astute patriarch on the hit TV show but his career spanned much wider than that. On TV he appeared regularly on The Good Wife, St. Elsewhere, The Practice, and Oz. In movies, he’s probably best known for his Richard Gilmore on the Gilmore Girls, but he appeared in Nixon, The Aviator, Richie Rich, Intolerable Cruelty, Annie, The Great Gatsby, The Purple Rose of Cairo and many others. He worked with the best of the best. h/t slashfilm

Whenever Herrmann appeared on screen, he quickly and quietly lent a commanding presence to his characters.

Here a complete list of films Herrmann appeared:

	Day of the Dolphin Mike	1973
	Paper Chase Anderson	1973
	Great Gatsby Klipspringer	1974
	Great Waldo Pepper Ezra Stiles	1975
	Eleanor and Franklin Franklin Delano Roosevelt	1976
	Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years Franklin Delano Roosevelt	1977
	Betsy Dan Weyman	1978
	Brass Target Colonel Walter Gilchrist	1978
	Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story Lou Gehrig	1978
	North Avenue Irregulars Michael Hill	1979
	Portrait of a Stripper	1979
	Freedom Road	1979
	Take Down Ed Branish	1979
	Reds Max Eastman	1981
	Harry’s War Harry Johnson	1981
	Little Sex	1981
	Annie F.D.R.	1982
	Death Valley Paul Stanton	1982
	Memorial Day Ned Larwin	1983
	Mrs. Soffel Peter Soffel	1984
	Man with One Red Shoe Brown	1985
	Purple Rose of Cairo Henry	1985
	Compromising Positions Bob Singer	1985
	Murrow	1986
	Overboard Grant Stayton III	1987
	Return of Hickey	1987
	Lost Boys Max	1987
	Big Business Graham Sherbourne	1988
	My Boyfriend’s Back Mr. Dingle	1989
	Sweet Poison	1991
	Fire in the Dark Robert	1991
	Hero (uncredited)	1992
	Born Yesterday Ed Devery	1993
	My Boyfriend’s Back	1993
	Foreign Field Ralph	1993
	Foreign Student Zach Gilmore	1994
	Don’t Drink the Water Mr. Kilroy	1994
	Richie Rich Mr. Rich	1994
	Nixon Nelson Rockefeller	1995
	Face on the Milk Carton Frank Jessmon	1995
	Baseball in Black and White Branch Rickey	1996
	Critical Care	1997
	Intolerable Cruelty Rex Rexroth	2003
	Aviator Joseph Breen	2004
	Factory Girl James Townsend	2006
	Wolf of Wall Street Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)	2013

 

	M*A*S*H Heal Thyself as Capt. Steven J. Newsome	01/14/1980
	American Playhouse Concealed Enemies as Alger Hiss	05/07/1984
	American Playhouse The Prodigious Hickey as Headmaster	01/26/1987
	Gilmore Girls Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy as Richard Gilmore	10/30/2001
	Gilmore Girls It Should’ve Been Lorelai as Richard Gilmore	02/12/2002
	Gilmore Girls I Can’t Get Started as Richard Gilmore	05/21/2002
	Gilmore Girls A Tale of Poes and Fire as Richard Gilmore	04/15/2003
	Gilmore Girls Lorelai? Lorelai? as Richard Gilmore	05/01/2007
	Grey’s Anatomy Let the Truth Sting as Dr. Norman Shales	10/11/2007
	Grey’s Anatomy The Heart of the Matter as Dr. Norman Shales	10/18/2007
	Grey’s Anatomy Haunt You Every Day as Dr. Norman Shales	10/25/2007