Herb Edelman Biography and Filmography

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Actresses who appeared with Herb Edelman on screen:

Susan Sarandon
Jane Fonda
Maggie Smith
Shannon Tweed
Tori Spelling
Pam Grier
Barbra Streisand
Farrah Fawcett
Jami Gertz
Debra Winger
Angela Lansbury
Blythe Danner
Eva Marie Saint
Margot Kidder
Cloris Leachman
Betty White

Herb Edelman
Birthday: November 5, 1933
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height: 6' 5"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Herb Edelman. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

Biography

If character actor Herb Edelman was one of the more successful stage and screen purveyors of "Everyman" roles, it was probably because he'd held down an astonishing array of meat-and-potato jobs before settling into acting. Edelman studied to be a veterinarian at Cornell University, but left during the first year. He took a tentative stab at journalism before toiling as an Armed Forces radio operator and announcer. While stationed in the Far East, Edelman entertained the notion of becoming a "Jewish Buddhist." He returned to his hometown to attend Brooklyn College, dropped out to become a hotel manager, was briefly the "straight" half of a comedy team, worked in advertising, drove a hack, and dropped back into college. Finally turning to acting full time in summer stock, Edelman began picking up small roles in New York productions, including the scene-stealing exhausted delivery man inNeil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1965), a role he recreated for the 1967 film version. Forming strong bonds with both Simon and with Barefoot star Robert Redford, Edelman would later appear in Simon's The Odd Couple and California Suite, and in the Redford/Barbara Streisand vehicle The Way We Were (1973). In 1968, Edelman co-starred with Bob Denver in the two-season TV sitcom The Good Guys. Nine years later, he starred as one-half of the title role in the weekly TV comedy/fantasy Big John, Little John (Robbie Rist was the "Little" one). Other TV series featuring Herb Edelman on a regular or recurring basis included Ladies Man, 9 to 5, Strike Force and Murder She Wrote. Fans of the sitcom The Golden Girls may remember Edelman for playing Stanley, Bea Arthur's irksome ex-husband. Edelman died of emphysema at the Motion Picture Hospital in Los Angeles on July 21, 1996; he was 62.

Movie Credits

Cops n Roberts (1995)

Portrait of Death (1994)

Murder at a Discount (1993)

The Phantom Killer (1993)

For Whom the Ball Tolls (1993)
[ Jeff Conaway ]

Wine Knot (1992)

The Cat and the Claw: Part 1 (1992)

One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest: Part 2 (1992)
[ Leslie Nielsen ]

Ebbtide VI: The Wrath of Stan (1992)

Grass Roots (1992)
[ John Glover ][ Corbin Bernsen ][ Reginald VelJohnson ][ Raymond Burr ][ Rod Taylor ]

The Naked Truth (1992)
[ Lou Ferrigno ][ M. Emmet Walsh ][ Brian Thompson ][ Erik Estrada ][ John Vernon ]

The Monkey Show: Part 1 (1991)

The Monkey Show: Part 2 (1991)

Faith, Hope & Charity (1991)

What If? (1990)

Dead But Not Buried: Part 1 (1990)

A Moving Experience (1990)
[ Robert Reed ]

The Lost Amadeus (1990)

Be a Good Girl (1989)

Cold War (1987)

The Equalizer (1986)

Red, White, Black and Blue (1985)

Any Portrait in a Storm (1985)

Picking Up the Pieces (1985)
[ Chris Barnes ][ Christopher Daniel Barnes ]

A Song for Jason: Part 1 (1985)
[ Giovanni Ribisi ]

Kwai tsan tseh (1984)
[ Jackie Chan ][ Sammo Hung Kam-Bo ]

Hooked (1984)

Thank God It's Monday (1984)

The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1984)
[ Andy Garcia ][ Ned Beatty ][ Brian Keith ]

Polly's Poker Palace/Shop Ahoy/Double Date/The Hong Kong Affair/Two Tales of a City: Part 2 (1984)
[ Gene Kelly ][ Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ]

Shooting Stars (1983)
[ David Faustino ][ Billy Dee Williams ][ Aaron Spelling ][ Parker Stevenson ][ Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ]

Cracking Up (1983)
[ Jerry Lewis ][ Sammy Davis Jr. ]

The Crying Clown (1983)

Stop the Presses (1982)

He's My Brother/Zeke and Zelda/Teach Me Tonight (1981)

Mr. Nobody/La Liberatora (1981)
[ Sherman Hemsley ]

On the Right Track (1981)
[ Gary Coleman ][ Norman Fell ]

A Cry for Love (1980)
[ Powers Boothe ][ John Diehl ][ Art Metrano ]

Marathon (1980)
[ Bob Newhart ][ John Hillerman ]

Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro haru no yume (1979)

The Charge of the Model Ts (1979)

The Over the Hill Caper/Poof! You're a Movie Star (1978)
[ Ray Bolger ]

California Suite (1978)
[ Michael Caine ][ Bill Cosby ][ Alan Alda ][ Richard Pryor ][ Walter Matthau ]

Frankie and Annette: The Second Time Around (1978)

Goin' Coconuts (1978)
[ Ted Cassidy ][ Kenneth Mars ][ Donny Osmond ]

The Comedy Company (1978)
[ Abe Vigoda ][ Jack Albertson ][ Patrick Labyorteaux ][ Howard Hesseman ]

Special Olympics (1978)
[ Charles Durning ]

Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
[ Tommy Lee Jones ][ Tommy Lee ][ Robert Conrad ][ Buddy Ebsen ][ David Groh ]

The Ashes of Mrs. Reasoner (1976)
[ Charles Durning ]

The Adventure of Auld Lang Syne (1975)

Hearts of the West (1975)
[ Jeff Bridges ][ Alan Arkin ][ Fred Ward ][ Andy Griffith ][ Donald Pleasence ]

Crossfire (1975)
[ John Saxon ][ Jameson Parker ]

Distant Early Warning (1975)

Photo Finish (1974)

The Yakuza (1974)
[ Robert Mitchum ][ Sydney Pollack ][ Brian Keith ][ Richard Jordan ]

The Front Page (1974)
[ Jack Lemmon ][ Walter Matthau ][ Billy Wilder ][ Charles Durning ][ Austin Pendleton ]

Mask of Death (1974)

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974)
[ Robert Stack ][ Bill McKinney ]

The Boys (1974)

Steambath (1973)
[ Bill Bixby ][ Kenneth Mars ][ Art Metrano ]

The Ho Chi Min Trail (1973)
[ George Maharis ]

The Twenty-Four Karat Plague (1973)
[ Vic Morrow ]

Koska and His Family (1973)

The Way We Were (1973)
[ Robert Redford ][ James Woods ][ George Gaynes ]

Love and the Advice Column/Love and the Bathtub/Love and the Fullback/Love and the Guru/Love and the Physical (1972)
[ Max Baer Jr. ][ Frank Sutton ]

The War Between Men and Women (1972)
[ Jack Lemmon ][ Jason Robards ]

Of Thee I Sing (1972)
[ Carroll O'Connor ][ Ted Knight ]

Once Upon a Dead Man (1971)
[ Rock Hudson ][ Rene Auberjonois ][ Jack Albertson ]

Banyon (1971)
[ Robert Forster ][ Darren McGavin ]

The Bill Cosby Special, or? (1971)
[ Burgess Meredith ]

The Neon Ceiling (1971)

The Feminist and the Fuzz (1971)
[ Harry Morgan ]

Love and the Banned Book/Love and the First Nighters/Love and the King (1970)

Love and the Busy Husband/Love and the Dating Computer/Love and the Watchdog (1969)

In Name Only (1969)
[ Art Metrano ][ Michael Callan ]

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
[ Peter Sellers ]

The Odd Couple (1968)
[ Jack Lemmon ][ Walter Matthau ][ John Fiedler ]

P.J. (1968)
[ George Peppard ][ Raymond Burr ]

In Like Flint (1967)
[ Lee J. Cobb ]

Barefoot in the Park (1967)
[ Robert Redford ]

Kibbee Hates Fitch (1965)
[ Don Rickles ]

Trivia

He was equally adept at both comedies and dramas.

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