Edward Herrmann
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jul 21, 1943 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Biography
Edward Kirk Herrmann (July 21, 1943 – December 31, 2014) in Washington, D.C., was an American television and film actor. He is best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt on television, to younger generations for his role as Richard Gilmore in Gilmore Girls, as a ubiquitous narrator for historical programs on the History Channel, and as the spokesperson for Dodge automobiles in the 1990s.
Known For
| 2016 | Coach of the YearBill Ford | |
| 2016 | Gilmore Girls: A Year in the LifeRichard Gilmore (archive sound) (uncredited) | |
| 2015 | Cancer: The Emperor of All MaladiesNarrator (voice) | |
| 2014 | The Town that Dreaded SundownReverend Cartwright | |
| 2014 | The Roosevelts: An Intimate HistoryFranklin Roosevelt (voice) | |
| 2013 | Are You HereDr. Vincent | |
| 2013 | The Wolf of Wall StreetStratton Oakmont Commercial (voice) | |
| 2012 | Treasure BuddiesPhilip Wellington | |
| 2012 | Christmas OrangesMr. Crampton | |
| 2012 | Price CheckJack Bennington | |
| 2012 | Heaven's DoorNate Christensen | |
| 2012 | PerceptionJack Pierce | |
| 2011 | A Christmas WishLes McCallum | |
| 2011 | The Christmas PageantGarrett Clark | |
| 2011 | Son of MorningThomas | |
| 2011 | Bucky Larson: Born to Be a StarJeremiah Larson | |
| 2011 | Redemption: For Robbing the DeadGovernor Dawson | |
| 2011 | Wonder Woman | |
| 2011 | Harry's LawLester Babcock | |
| 2010 | Better With YouJudge | |
| 2009 | The SkepticShepard | |
| 2009 | The Six Wives of Henry LefayJohn Goodenough | |
| 2009 | Ring Christmas BellsSelf | |
| 2009 | Morristown: Where America SurvivedNarrator | |
| 2009 | Hatching PeteThe Principal | |
| 2009 | The Good WifeLionel Deerfield | |
| 2009 | Drop Dead DivaReverend Phillips | |
| 2007 | I Think I Love My WifeMr. Landis | |
| 2007 | Banned from the Bible IINarrator | |
| 2007 | Columbus The Lost VoyageNarrator | |
| 2007 | Sherman's MarchNarrator | |
| 2007 | Andrew JacksonNarrator | |
| 2007 | Titanic's Achilles HeelNarrator | |
| 2007 | The States | |
| 2007 | The Revolution | |
| 2006 | Wedding DazeLyle | |
| 2006 | Factory GirlJames Townsend | |
| 2006 | Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the MayflowerSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2006 | Titanic's Final Moments: Missing PiecesNarrator (voice) | |
| 2006 | Decoding the Past: Secrets of the KoranNarrator | |
| 2006 | Relative StrangersDoug Clayton | |
| 2006 | Witness to 'Reds'Self | |
| 2006 | 30 RockWalter | |
| 2006 | The Ten CommandmentsNarrator | |
| 2005 | Ape to ManNarrator | |
| 2005 | The French RevolutionNarrator | |
| 2005 | The Templar Code: Crusade of SecrecyNarrator | |
| 2005 | Bible BattlesNarrator (voice) | |
| 2005 | FDR: A Presidency RevealedNarrator | |
| 2005 | How I Met Your MotherReverend Lowell | |
| 2005 | French RevolutionNarrator | |
| 2005 | The PresidentsNarrator | |
| 2005 | American Dad!Councilman (voice) | |
| 2005 | Grey's AnatomyNorman Shales | |
| 2005 | American Dad!Old Man (voice) | |
| 2004 | BereftLloyd | |
| 2004 | Isaac's StormNarrator | |
| 2004 | The AviatorJoseph Breen | |
| 2004 | Welcome to MooseportAvery Hightower Debate Moderator (uncredited) | |
| 2004 | First Invasion: The War of 1812Narrator | |
| 2004 | Tom Goes to the MayorBenjamin Kaplan (voice) | |
| 2003 | Intolerable CrueltyRex Rexroth | |
| 2003 | Teddy Roosevelt: An American LionNarrator | |
| 2003 | Russia, Land of the TsarsNarrator | |
| 2003 | Stalin: Man of SteelNarrator (voice) | |
| 2003 | The Samuraiself (voice) | |
| 2003 | The Louisiana PurchaseNarrator | |
| 2003 | Russia, Land of the Tsars | |
| 2002 | It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')Self | |
| 2002 | The Emperor's ClubHeadmaster Woodbridge | |
| 2002 | Antarctica: A Frozen HistoryNarrator | |
| 2002 | Dinosaur Secrets RevealedNarrator (voice) | |
| 2002 | Rise and Fall of the SpartansNarrator (voice) | |
| 2001 | James DeanRaymond Massey | |
| 2001 | The Cat's MeowW. R. Hearst | |
| 2001 | DownMilligan | |
| 2001 | The Face: Jesus in ArtNarrator (voice) | |
| 2001 | In Search of ChristmasNarrator | |
| 2001 | Double TakeCharles Allsworth | |
| 2001 | Crossing JordanThomas Malden | |
| 2001 | The Impressionists: The Other French RevolutionNarrator | |
| 2000 | Gilmore GirlsRichard Gilmore | |
| 2000 | CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationMr. Vogel | |
| 2000 | Founding FathersNarrator | |
| 1999 | Niagara: A History of the FallsNarrator | |
| 1999 | VendettaD.A. Luzenberg | |
| 1999 | Walking Across EgyptReverend Vernon | |
| 1999 | Norman Rockwell: Painting AmericaNarrator | |
| 1999 | Atomic TrainThe President | |
| 1999 | The Korean War: Fire and IceNarrator | |
| 1999 | Ultimate autoshost | |
| 1998 | Saint MaybeDoug Bedloe | |
| 1998 | Better LivingJack | |
| 1998 | Frank Lloyd WrightSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 1997 | Critical CareRobert Payne | |
| 1997 | The PracticeAnderson Pearson | |
| 1997 | Liberty!Narrator | |
| 1996 | Soul of the GameBranch Rickey | |
| 1996 | What Love SeesMorton Treadway | |
| 1996 | A Season in PurgatoryDr. Shugrue | |
| 1996 | Pandora's ClockPresident | |
| 1996 | A Season in PurgatoryDr. Shugrue | |
| 1995 | The Face on the Milk CartonFrank Jessmon | |
| 1995 | Here Come the MunstersHerman Munster | |
| 1995 | NixonNelson Rockefeller | |
| 1995 | Thomas Jefferson: A View from the MountainThomas Jefferson (voice) | |
| 1994 | Don't Drink the WaterMr. Kilroy | |
| 1994 | Ri¢hie Ri¢hRichard Rich | |
| 1994 | Foreign StudentZachary 'Zach' Gilmore | |
| 1993 | My Boyfriend's BackMr. Dingle | |
| 1993 | A Foreign FieldRalph | |
| 1993 | Born YesterdayEd Deverey | |
| 1993 | Homicide: Life on the StreetThomas Pandolfi | |
| 1992 | HeroMr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide | |
| 1991 | Fire in the DarkRobert | |
| 1991 | Sweet PoisonHenry | |
| 1990 | Night of 100 Stars IIISelf | |
| 1990 | So Proudly We HailJames Wagner | |
| 1990 | WingsY.M. Burg | |
| 1990 | Law & OrderFrederic Matson | |
| 1990 | Law & OrderDrew Seeley | |
| 1990 | Law & OrderDefense Attorney Mosbeck | |
| 1989 | Screen OneRalph | |
| 1988 | Big BusinessGraham Sherbourne | |
| 1988 | HothouseWoods | |
| 1987 | The Lost BoysMax | |
| 1987 | OverboardGrant Stayton III | |
| 1987 | The Lawrenceville StoriesHead Master | |
| 1986 | MurrowFred Friendly | |
| 1985 | The Man with One Red ShoeBrown | |
| 1985 | Compromising PositionsBob Singer | |
| 1985 | The Purple Rose of CairoHenry | |
| 1985 | The New Alfred Hitchcock PresentsDr. Maxwell Stoddard / Litton | |
| 1984 | Mrs. SoffelWarden Peter Soffel | |
| 1983 | Memorial DayNed Larwin | |
| 1982 | AnnieFDR | |
| 1982 | Death ValleyPaul Stanton | |
| 1982 | The Electric GrandmotherFather | |
| 1982 | The Gift of LifeDr. Quinn | |
| 1982 | A Little SexTommy | |
| 1982 | St. ElsewhereFather Joseph McCabe | |
| 1982 | NatureNarrator (voice) | |
| 1981 | RedsMax Eastman | |
| 1981 | Harry's WarHarry Johnson | |
| 1981 | The Private History of a Campaign That FailedThe Stranger | |
| 1981 | Dear LiarGeorge Bernard Shaw | |
| 1979 | The North Avenue IrregularsMichael Hill | |
| 1979 | Portrait of a StripperFrank Andrews | |
| 1979 | Take DownEd Branish | |
| 1979 | The Sorrows of GinKip Lawton | |
| 1979 | O Youth and Beauty!Kip Lawton | |
| 1979 | Freedom RoadStephen Holmes | |
| 1978 | Brass TargetCol. Walter Gilchrist | |
| 1978 | A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig StoryLou Gehrig | |
| 1978 | The BetsyDan Weyman | |
| 1977 | Eleanor and Franklin: The White House YearsFranklin D. Roosevelt | |
| 1976 | Eleanor and FranklinFranklin Delano Roosevelt, Age 20-50 | |
| 1975 | The Great Waldo PepperEzra Stiles | |
| 1975 | Valley Forge | |
| 1975 | Beacon HillRichard Palmer | |
| 1974 | The Great GatsbyKlipspringer | |
| 1973 | The Paper ChaseThomas Craig Anderson | |
| 1973 | The Day of the DolphinMike | |
| 1972 | M*A*S*H | |
| 1971 | Lady LibertyPoliceman (uncredited) | |
| 1971 | Great PerformancesSelf | |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of FameFolsom | |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of FameDoug Bedloe | |
| - | History's Lost & Found | |
| - | Wonder WomanSenator Warren |
| 1999 | Niagara: A History of the FallsPresenter |