Lou Hirsch

Lou Hirsch

Born: February 27, 1955
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lou Hirsch is an actor, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and currently based in the United Kingdom. He studied at the University of Miami and The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, UK, with future Star Trek actress Marina Sirtis. He has an extensive list of credits in film, TV, and theater going back over 20 years, and his most recent film role was as Headmaster Widdlesome in Thunderbirds. He also appeared as Arnie Kowalski in the BBC comedy My Hero from 2000 to 2006. He is probably best known as the off-screen voice of Baby Herman in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Hirsch has recently been seen in the new British American sitcom Episodes as Wallace, the security guard at the complex where the main characters live.

Hirsch's first significant television appearance was as Hymie in the 1982 series We'll Meet Again.

He specialises in playing Americans in English television programmes.

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Movies for Lou Hirsch...

Title: Episodes
Character: Wallace
Released: January 9, 2011
Type: TV
A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.
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Thunderbirds
Title: Thunderbirds
Character: Headmaster
Released: July 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Led by Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), the Thunderbirds are at the top of their game, but their nemesis, The Hood (Ben Kingsley), has landed on their island and is attempting a coup by using the team's rescue vehicles. He'll soon discover that the Thunderbirds won't go down.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Released: September 16, 2003
Type: Movie
The story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a rebellious mill worker in 1915 and her doomed love affair for a man who must fight for his country, through to her final days in the run up to the British General Election of 1997.
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Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express
Title: Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express
Character: Fred Wallace
Released: September 18, 2001
Type: Movie
Terrorists hold a group of people hostage during a Millenium Eve party aboard the Orient Express. Only an action movie star and a gymnast can save them.
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Title: My Hero
Character: Arnie Kawolski
Released: February 4, 2000
Type: TV
My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the United States it was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia.
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Title: Operation Good Guys
Released: December 29, 1997
Type: TV
Operation Good Guys is a British mockumentary, a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, it witnesses, on camera, the total breakdown, professionally and personally, of the Operation Good Guys team. Throughout the operation, The 'Good Guys' have an unfortunate habit of embroiling into their calamitous world some of the country's best-known celebrities, from actors and footballers, to TV presenters and even the odd ex-convict.
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Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas!
Title: Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas!
Character: Dino DiCatalano
Released: November 17, 1997
Type: Movie
The cast of Corrie take on Las Vegas!
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The Best of Roger Rabbit
Title: The Best of Roger Rabbit
Character: Adult Baby Herman (voice) (archive footage)
Released: February 28, 1996
Type: Movie
VIdeo compilation of the three Roger Rabbit shorts: 'Tummy Trouble', 'Roller Coaster Rabbit' and 'Trail Mix-Up'.
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Title: Space Precinct
Released: October 3, 1994
Type: TV
Space Precinct is a British television series that aired from 1994 to 1995 on Sky One and later on BBC Two in Britain, and in first-run syndication in the US. Many US stations scheduled the show in late night time slots, which resulted in low ratings and ensured cancellation. The series was created by Gerry Anderson and was a mix of science fiction and police procedural that combined elements of many of Anderson's previous series such as Space: 1999, UFO and Thunderbirds, but with an added dash of Law & Order and Dragnet. Gerry Anderson was Executive Producer along with Tom Gutteridge. One of the series' directors was John Glen who had previously helmed various James Bond movies.
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Tom & Viv
Title: Tom & Viv
Character: Captain Todd
Released: April 15, 1994
Type: Movie
The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
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Trail Mix-Up
Title: Trail Mix-Up
Character: Adult Baby Herman (voice)
Released: March 12, 1993
Type: Movie
During a picnic, Baby Herman follows a beaver into a perilous sawmill - with Roger Rabbit in frantic pursuit.
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The Fallout Guy
Title: The Fallout Guy
Character: Raymond
Released: July 24, 1991
Type: Movie
Raymond Gold, a 40-year-old Walter Mitty character from Philadelphia, is recruited to pass secrets of the atom bomb to the Russians in the 1940s. His girlfriend Danica discovers that he is a fantasist while the FBI suspect him of spying. His world falls apart, with tragicomic results.
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Roller Coaster Rabbit
Title: Roller Coaster Rabbit
Character: Adult Baby Herman (voice)
Released: June 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Roger Rabbit struggles to keep wandering Baby Herman safe in an amusement park where the usual havoc ensues.
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Title: Jeeves and Wooster
Character: Jimmy Mundy
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: TV
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
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Red King, White Knight
Title: Red King, White Knight
Character: Baetz
Released: November 25, 1989
Type: Movie
The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.
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Tummy Trouble
Title: Tummy Trouble
Character: Adult Baby Herman (voice)
Released: June 23, 1989
Type: Movie
Roger Rabbit once again is chosen for the dangerous task of babysitting Baby Herman and everything is going to be just fine.
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Defrosting the Fridge
Title: Defrosting the Fridge
Character: USAF Commentator
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: Movie
The Lowesthorpe Trawlers an English, American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and persuade local firm Salty Sea Fish Foods to be their sponsors, in an attempt to improve their game.
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Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Title: Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Character: Self
Released: July 14, 1988
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Title: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Character: Baby Herman (voice)
Released: June 21, 1988
Type: Movie
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
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Deadline
Title: Deadline
Character: Monty
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a political renegade, attempts to depose his father - the ruling monarch. Flashbacks of the journalist's life show us how his relationships with the Emir and a beautiful young woman develop and flourish.
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Title: The New Statesman
Character: Houghton Mifflin
Released: September 13, 1987
Type: TV
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
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The Last Days of Patton
Title: The Last Days of Patton
Character: Dexter
Released: December 15, 1986
Type: Movie
Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of dealing with the difficulty of adapting to his dramatic change of lifestyle, Patton is involved in an auto wreck that leaves him in critical condition. While his body fails him, Patton introspectively reminisces about his relationship with his spouse, Beatrice; his childhood; and his days on the WWI battlefields.
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John and Yoko: A Love Story
Title: John and Yoko: A Love Story
Character: Allen Klein
Released: December 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Counter Clerk
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Insignificance
Title: Insignificance
Character: Charlie
Released: August 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Four 1950s cultural icons who conceivably could have met but probably didn't, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid progression of flashbacks and flashforwards centering on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories, and apprehensions for the future.
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Title: Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: Wee Jock
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: TV
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
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The Lonely Lady
Title: The Lonely Lady
Released: October 2, 1983
Type: Movie
A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
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Superman III
Title: Superman III
Character: Fred
Released: June 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
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Title: Whoops Apocalypse
Released: March 14, 1982
Type: TV
Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainment, with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two of the original actors returned in different roles. The series has a big cult audience, and copies of videos are heavily sought after. The British budget label Channel 5 Video released a compilation cassette of all six episodes edited together into one 137-minute chunk in 1987. In 2010 Network DVD released both the complete, unedited series and the movie on a 2-DVD set entitled Whoops Apocalypse: The Complete Apocalypse.. John Otway also recorded a song called "Whoops Apocalypse", which was used as the theme song for the film. He occasionally performs it live.
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Title: The Kenny Everett Television Show
Character: Various
Released: February 25, 1982
Type: TV
Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.
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Title: We'll Meet Again
Released: February 19, 1982
Type: TV
It's 1943 and the American Air Force has come to Market Weatherby, a small East Anglian town. The war weary British and the brash American GIs sometimes clash, but friendships are also forged.