Edward Herrmann
Acting • Born 1943-07-21 – Died 2014-12-31
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.
Filmography
171 credits
The Lost Boys
Movie • 1987
Max
James Dean
Movie • 2001
Raymond Massey
Don't Drink the Water
Movie • 1994
Mr. Kilroy
The Man with One Red Shoe
Movie • 1985
Brown
Overboard
Movie • 1987
Grant Stayton III
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Movie • 1994
Richard Rich
My Boyfriend's Back
Movie • 1993
Mr. Dingle
Intolerable Cruelty
Movie • 2003
Rex Rexroth
The Skeptic
Movie • 2009
Shepard
Wedding Daze
Movie • 2006
Lyle
Mrs. Soffel
Movie • 1984
Warden Peter Soffel
Factory Girl
Movie • 2006
James Townsend
Big Business
Movie • 1988
Graham Sherbourne
The Cat's Meow
Movie • 2001
W. R. Hearst
I Think I Love My Wife
Movie • 2007
Mr. Landis
Banned from the Bible II
Movie • 2007
Narrator
The Paper Chase
Movie • 1973
Thomas Craig Anderson
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
Movie • 2009
John Goodenough
Ape to Man
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Annie
Movie • 1982
FDR
Bereft
Movie • 2004
Lloyd
Isaac's Storm
Movie • 2004
Narrator
The North Avenue Irregulars
Movie • 1979
Michael Hill
Reds
Movie • 1981
Max Eastman
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower
Movie • 2006
Self - Narrator (voice)
Down
Movie • 2001
Milligan
The Great Waldo Pepper
Movie • 1975
Ezra Stiles
Brass Target
Movie • 1978
Col. Walter Gilchrist
Death Valley
Movie • 1982
Paul Stanton
Soul of the Game
Movie • 1996
Branch Rickey
Saint Maybe
Movie • 1998
Doug Bedloe
Foreign Student
Movie • 1994
Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
Movie • 2002
Self
The Electric Grandmother
Movie • 1982
Father
Harry's War
Movie • 1981
Harry Johnson
Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces
Movie • 2006
Narrator (voice)
Treasure Buddies
Movie • 2012
Philip Wellington
The Face on the Milk Carton
Movie • 1995
Frank Jessmon
Compromising Positions
Movie • 1985
Bob Singer
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Movie • 2003
Narrator
Columbus The Lost Voyage
Movie • 2007
Narrator
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Movie • 1978
Lou Gehrig
The French Revolution
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Portrait of a Stripper
Movie • 1979
Frank Andrews
The Face: Jesus in Art
Movie • 2001
Narrator (voice)
Lady Liberty
Movie • 1971
Policeman (uncredited)
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Movie • 1977
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Movie • 1981
The Stranger
The Emperor's Club
Movie • 2002
Headmaster Woodbridge
The Day of the Dolphin
Movie • 1973
Mike
The Betsy
Movie • 1978
Dan Weyman
Are You Here
Movie • 2013
Dr. Vincent
Niagara: A History of the Falls
Movie • 1999
Narrator
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Movie • 1985
Henry
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie • 1990
Self
So Proudly We Hail
Movie • 1990
James Wagner
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
Movie • 2014
Reverend Cartwright
Here Come the Munsters
Movie • 1995
Herman Munster
Christmas Oranges
Movie • 2012
Mr. Crampton
Better Living
Movie • 1998
Jack
The Great Gatsby
Movie • 1974
Klipspringer
Ring Christmas Bells
Movie • 2009
Self
Critical Care
Movie • 1997
Robert Payne
Fire in the Dark
Movie • 1991
Robert
In Search of Christmas
Movie • 2001
Narrator
Sherman's March
Movie • 2007
Narrator
Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran
Movie • 2006
Narrator
Russia, Land of the Tsars
Movie • 2003
Narrator
The Gift of Life
Movie • 1982
Dr. Quinn
A Christmas Wish
Movie • 2011
Les McCallum
The Wolf of Wall Street
Movie • 2013
Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)
A Little Sex
Movie • 1982
Tommy
Take Down
Movie • 1979
Ed Branish
The Aviator
Movie • 2004
Joseph Breen
The Sorrows of Gin
Movie • 1979
Kip Lawton
Andrew Jackson
Movie • 2007
Narrator
O Youth and Beauty!
Movie • 1979
Kip Lawton
Nixon
Movie • 1995
Nelson Rockefeller
Murrow
Movie • 1986
Fred Friendly
Welcome to Mooseport
Movie • 2004
Avery Hightower Debate Moderator (uncredited)
Memorial Day
Movie • 1983
Ned Larwin
First Invasion: The War of 1812
Movie • 2004
Narrator
Freedom Road
Movie • 1979
Stephen Holmes
Morristown: Where America Survived
Movie • 2009
Narrator
Double Take
Movie • 2001
Charles Allsworth
Price Check
Movie • 2012
Jack Bennington
Heaven's Door
Movie • 2012
Nate Christensen
A Foreign Field
Movie • 1993
Ralph
What Love Sees
Movie • 1996
Morton Treadway
The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Hero
Movie • 1992
Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide
Vendetta
Movie • 1999
D.A. Luzenberg
Coach of the Year
Movie • 2016
Bill Ford
Walking Across Egypt
Movie • 1999
Reverend Vernon
The Christmas Pageant
Movie • 2011
Garrett Clark
A Season in Purgatory
Movie • 1996
Dr. Shugrue
Relative Strangers
Movie • 2006
Doug Clayton
Valley Forge
Movie • 1975
Bible Battles
Movie • 2005
Narrator (voice)
Hatching Pete
Movie • 2009
The Principal
Son of Morning
Movie • 2011
Thomas
Titanic's Achilles Heel
Movie • 2007
Narrator
Born Yesterday
Movie • 1993
Ed Deverey
Stalin: Man of Steel
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
The Samurai
Movie • 2003
self (voice)
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
Movie • 2011
Jeremiah Larson
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
Movie • 2011
Governor Dawson
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
Movie • 1999
Narrator
Antarctica: A Frozen History
Movie • 2002
Narrator
Dinosaur Secrets Revealed
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
FDR: A Presidency Revealed
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Witness to 'Reds'
Movie • 2006
Self
Sweet Poison
Movie • 1991
Henry
The Louisiana Purchase
Movie • 2003
Narrator
Dear Liar
Movie • 1981
George Bernard Shaw
Wonder Woman
Movie • 2011
Countdown to Armageddon
Movie
Selfb - Announcer
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Father Joseph McCabe
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
Crossing Jordan
TV • 2001
Thomas Malden
How I Met Your Mother
TV • 2005
Reverend Lowell
Wings
TV • 1990
Y.M. Burg
Tom Goes to the Mayor
TV • 2004
Benjamin Kaplan (voice)
The Practice
TV • 1997
Anderson Pearson
30 Rock
TV • 2006
Walter
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV • 1993
Thomas Pandolfi
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Folsom
Gilmore Girls
TV • 2000
Richard Gilmore
The States
TV • 2007
History's Lost & Found
TV
Nature
TV • 1982
Narrator (voice)
Beacon Hill
TV • 1975
Richard Palmer
The Revolution
TV • 2007
Russia, Land of the Tsars
TV • 2003
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Frederic Matson
Screen One
TV • 1989
Ralph
French Revolution
TV • 2005
Narrator
Perception
TV • 2012
Jack Pierce
The Presidents
TV • 2005
Narrator
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Councilman (voice)
Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Norman Shales
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
TV • 2014
Franklin Roosevelt (voice)
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
TV • 1995
Thomas Jefferson (voice)
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Lionel Deerfield
Liberty!
TV • 1997
Narrator
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
TV • 2016
Richard Gilmore (archive sound) (uncredited)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Mr. Vogel
Drop Dead Diva
TV • 2009
Reverend Phillips
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Drew Seeley
Atomic Train
TV • 1999
The President
Eleanor and Franklin
TV • 1976
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Age 20-50
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Defense Attorney Mosbeck
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Doug Bedloe
Frank Lloyd Wright
TV • 1998
Self - Narrator (voice)
Pandora's Clock
TV • 1996
President
Rise and Fall of the Spartans
TV • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Founding Fathers
TV • 2000
Narrator
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Old Man (voice)
The Lawrenceville Stories
TV • 1987
Head Master
Better With You
TV • 2010
Judge
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1985
Dr. Maxwell Stoddard / Litton
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Wonder Woman
TV
Senator Warren
The Ten Commandments
TV • 2006
Narrator
The Korean War: Fire and Ice
TV • 1999
Narrator
Ultimate autos
TV • 1999
host
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
TV • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Harry's Law
TV • 2011
Lester Babcock
A Season in Purgatory
TV • 1996
Dr. Shugrue
Hothouse
TV • 1988
Woods