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American newsreel narrator, radio and television announcer (–)

Edward Joseph Herlihy (August 14, &#;– January 30, )^[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 s and , and was briefly interim announcer on The Tonight Show in ^[2] He was also the voice of Kraft Foods radio and television commercials from the s through the early s. When he died in , his obituary in The New York Times said he was "A Voice of Cheer and Cheese".^[3]

Radio and television

Educated at Boston College, graduating in , he gained his first radio job in his home town, at Boston's WLOE. When he was hired by NBC in , he decamped for New York, along with his friend, fellow Boston announcer Frank Gallop, who was hired by CBS. In their early days as network announcers, Herlihy and Gallop shared an apartment on West 45th Stree Ed herlihy attorney new york.