Lou Hirsch

Acting

Lou Hirsch

Born 1955-02-27 · 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lou Hirsch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Who Framed Roger Rabbit poster
7.5

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.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1988

Superman III poster
5.5

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. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.

Superman III

1983

Thunderbirds poster
5.0

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.

Thunderbirds

2004

Trail Mix-Up poster
7.0

During a picnic, Baby Herman follows a beaver into a perilous sawmill - with Roger Rabbit in frantic pursuit.

Trail Mix-Up

1993

Insignificance poster
6.4

Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room, and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

Insignificance

1985

Roller Coaster Rabbit poster
6.7

Roger Rabbit struggles to keep wandering Baby Herman safe in an amusement park where the usual havoc ensues.

Roller Coaster Rabbit

1990

Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town poster
5.7

A behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town

1988

The Lonely Lady poster
4.6

A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.

The Lonely Lady

1983

Tummy Trouble poster
6.7

Roger Rabbit once again is chosen for the dangerous task of babysitting Baby Herman and everything is going to be just fine.

Tummy Trouble

1989

The Last Days of Patton poster
6.4

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.

The Last Days of Patton

1986

Tom & Viv poster
6.1

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.

Tom & Viv

1994

Space Precinct: The Fire Within poster
NR

A priest spontaneously combusts during a ceremony at the Pyrist Temple; Brogan investigates, finding that the death was likely a homicide and all evidence points to a fellow priest being the culprit.

Space Precinct: The Fire Within

2025

Space Precinct: Deathwatch poster
NR

The arrival a mysterious meteor fragment on Altor, heralds the start of strange events at Roetem Towers on Krazucki Street where residents are being terrorized into relocation.

Space Precinct: Deathwatch

2025

John and Yoko: A Love Story poster
6.8

Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.

John and Yoko: A Love Story

1985

Red King, White Knight poster
6.4

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.

Red King, White Knight

1989

Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express poster
3.8

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.

Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express

2001

The Best of Roger Rabbit poster
6.8

VIdeo compilation of the three Roger Rabbit shorts: 'Tummy Trouble', 'Roller Coaster Rabbit' and 'Trail Mix-Up'.

The Best of Roger Rabbit

1996

Defrosting the Fridge poster
3.0

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.

Defrosting the Fridge

1989

The Key poster
8.0

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.

The Key

2003

Deadline poster
6.0

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.

Deadline

1988

The Fallout Guy poster
5.5

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.

The Fallout Guy

1991

Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas! poster
10.0

The cast of Corrie take on Las Vegas!

Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas!

1997

The Bell-Run poster
NR

Deep-sea diving is well paid and glamorous. But the strain is huge, living in a tiny compression chamber for four weeks at a time. And if anything goes wrong, you're a dead man.No wonder Joe can't sleep easy at nights. His nightmares might become reality.

The Bell-Run

1988