Ed Herlihy

Edward Joseph Herlihy (August 14, 1909 – January 30, 1999) 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 1950s, and briefly serving as interim announcer on The Tonight Show in 1962. Herlihy was the voice of Kraft Foods radio and television commercials from the 1940s through the early 1980s. He was educated at Boston College, graduating in 1932, and began his career in radio at WLOE in Boston. Herlihy found immediate success in network radio and became a prominent figure in the industry.