It wasn’t just in the show that his absence was felt.

She wasn’t the only one having a hard time.

“Everybody walked in just kind of holding each other’s hand to maybe get a little extra strength.

Edward Herrmann smiling

We couldn’t go there for a while,” Maben told Vanity Fair.

“He was the kind of person who always just filled up a room.”

And he may have even shown that presence.

Gilmore Girls, Kelly Bishop, Alexis Bledel, Lauren Graham

Star recounted that Kelly Bishop “kept saying Ed, ‘Where are you, where are you Ed?’

We only learned about his illness a week or so ago.

(via TVLine).