Edward Herrmann

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 158

Gender Male

Birthday July 21, 1943

Day of Death December 31, 2014 (71 years old)

Place of Birth Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Also Known As

Ed Hermann
Edward Herman
Edward Kirk Herrmann

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Edward Herrmann

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.

Hermann died from brain cancer, Wednesday, December 31, 2014, in a hospital in New York City.

Known For

Acting

—		Wonder Woman (1 episode) as Senator Warren
—		History's Lost & Found (8 episodes)

2016		Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (1 episode) as Richard Gilmore (archive sound) (uncredited)
2016		Coach of the Year as Bill Ford

2014		The Town that Dreaded Sundown as Reverend Cartwright
2014		The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (7 episodes) as Franklin Roosevelt (voice)

2013		The Wolf of Wall Street as Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)
2013		Are You Here as Dr. Vincent

2012		Heaven's Door as Nate Christensen
2012		Price Check as Jack Bennington
2012		Perception (1 episode) as Jack Pierce
2012		Christmas Oranges as Mr. Crampton
2012		Treasure Buddies as Philip Wellington

2011		The Christmas Pageant as Garrett Clark
2011		A Christmas Wish as Les McCallum
2011		Redemption: For Robbing the Dead as Governor Dawson
2011		Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star as Jeremiah Larson
2011		Son of Morning as Thomas

2010

(1 episode) as Judge

2009		The Good Wife (6 episodes) as Lionel Deerfield
2009		Ring Christmas Bells as Self
2009		Drop Dead Diva (1 episode) as Reverend Phillips
2009		The Six Wives of Henry Lefay as John Goodenough
2009		The Skeptic as Shepard
2009		Hatching Pete as The Principal
2009		Morristown: Where America Survived as Narrator

2007		Andrew Jackson as Narrator
2007		Columbus The Lost Voyage as Narrator
2007		The Revolution (13 episodes)
2007		Titanic's Achilles Heel as Narrator
2007		Sherman's March as Narrator
2007		The States (10 episodes)
2007		Banned from the Bible II as Narrator
2007		I Think I Love My Wife as Mr. Landis

2006		Factory Girl as James Townsend
2006		Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower as Self - Narrator (voice)
2006		Witness to 'Reds' as Self
2006		30 Rock (1 episode) as Walter
2006		Wedding Daze as Lyle
2006		Relative Strangers as Doug Clayton
2006		The Ten Commandments (2 episodes) as Narrator
2006		Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran as Narrator
2006		Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces as Narrator (voice)

2005		Ape to Man as Narrator
2005		Bible Battles as Narrator (voice)
2005		The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy as Narrator
2005		How I Met Your Mother (1 episode) as Reverend Lowell
2005		FDR: A Presidency Revealed as Narrator
2005		Grey's Anatomy (3 episodes) as Norman Shales
2005		American Dad! (1 episode) as Old Man (voice) (1 episode) as Councilman (voice)
2005		The Presidents (9 episodes) as Narrator
2005		French Revolution (2 episodes) as Narrator
2005		The French Revolution as Narrator

2004		The Aviator as Joseph Breen
2004		Tom Goes to the Mayor (1 episode) as Benjamin Kaplan (voice)
2004		Bereft as Lloyd
2004		First Invasion: The War of 1812 as Narrator
2004		Isaac's Storm as Narrator
2004		Welcome to Mooseport as Debate Moderator

2003		Intolerable Cruelty as Rex Rexroth
2003		Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion as Narrator
2003		Russia, Land of the Tsars (4 episodes)
2003		The Louisiana Purchase as Narrator
2003		Russia, Land of the Tsars as Narrator
2003		The Samurai as self (voice)
2003		Stalin: Man of Steel as Narrator (voice)

2002		The Emperor's Club as Headmaster Woodbridge
2002		Dinosaur Secrets Revealed as Narrator (voice)
2002		Rise and Fall of the Spartans (2 episodes) as Narrator (voice)
2002		The World Trade Center -Rise and Fall of an American Icon as Narrator
2002		It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow') as Self
2002		Antarctica: A Frozen History as Narrator

2001		In Search of Christmas as Narrator
2001		The Cat's Meow as W. R. Hearst
2001		Crossing Jordan (1 episode) as Thomas Malden
2001		Down as Milligan
2001		James Dean as Raymond Massey
2001		The Face: Jesus in Art as Narrator (voice)
2001		Double Take as Charles Allsworth

2000		Founding Fathers (4 episodes) as Narrator
2000		CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (1 episode) as Mr. Vogel
2000		Gilmore Girls (153 episodes) as Richard Gilmore

1999		Vendetta as D.A. Luzenberg
1999		Atomic Train (2 episodes) as The President
1999		Norman Rockwell: Painting America as Narrator
1999		Niagara: A History of the Falls as Narrator
1999		Walking Across Egypt as Reverend Vernon

1998		Saint Maybe as Doug Bedloe
1998		Frank Lloyd Wright (2 episodes) as Himself - Narrator (voice)
1998		Better Living as Jack

1997		Liberty! (6 episodes) as Narrator
1997		Critical Care as Robert Payne
1997		The Practice (10 episodes) as Anderson Pearson

1996		Pandora's Clock (2 episodes) as President
1996		What Love Sees as Morton Treadway
1996		A Season in Purgatory as Dr. Shugrue
1996		Soul of the Game as Branch Rickey

1995		Nixon as Nelson Rockefeller
1995		The Face on the Milk Carton as Frank Jessmon
1995		Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain (2 episodes) as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1995		Here Come the Munsters as Herman Munster

1994		Ri¢hie Ri¢h as Richard Rich
1994		Don't Drink the Water as Mr. Kilroy
1994		Foreign Student as Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore

1993		A Foreign Field as Ralph
1993		My Boyfriend's Back as Mr. Dingle
1993		Born Yesterday as Ed Deverey
1993		Homicide: Life on the Street (1 episode)

1992

as Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide

1991		Fire in the Dark as Robert
1991		Sweet Poison as Henry

1990		Law & Order (1 episode) as Defense Attorney Mosbeck (1 episode) as Drew Seeley (1 episode) as Frederic Matson
1990		Night of 100 Stars III as Self
1990		Wings (1 episode) as Y.M. Burg
1990		So Proudly We Hail as James Wagner

1989

(1 episode) as Ralph

1988

as Graham Sherbourne

1987		Overboard as Grant Stayton III
1987		The Lost Boys as Max
1987		The Lawrenceville Stories (3 episodes) as Head Master

1986

as Fred Friendly

1985		The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 episode) as Dr. Maxwell Stoddard / Litton
1985		Compromising Positions as Bob Singer
1985		The Man with One Red Shoe as Brown
1985		The Purple Rose of Cairo as Henry

1984

as Warden Peter Soffel

1983

as Ned Larwin

1982		St. Elsewhere (2 episodes)
1982		Nature (1 episode) as Narrator (voice)
1982		Annie as FDR
1982		Death Valley as Paul Stanton
1982		A Little Sex as Tommy
1982		The Gift of Life as Dr. Quinn
1982		The Electric Grandmother as Father

1981		Reds as Max Eastman
1981		The Private History of a Campaign That Failed as The Stranger
1981		Harry's War as Harry Johnson

1979		O Youth and Beauty! as Kip Lawton
1979		Freedom Road as Stephen Holmes
1979		The Sorrows of Gin as Kip Lawton
1979		Portrait of a Stripper as Frank Andrews
1979		The North Avenue Irregulars as Michael Hill
1979		Take Down as Ed Branish

1978		Brass Target as Col. Walter Gilchrist
1978		The Betsy as Dan Weyman
1978		A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story as Lou Gehrig

1977

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

1976

(2 episodes) as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Age 20-50

1975		Valley Forge
1975		Beacon Hill (11 episodes) as Richard Palmer
1975		The Great Waldo Pepper as Ezra Stiles

1974

as Klipspringer

1973		The Day of the Dolphin as Mike
1973		The Paper Chase as Thomas Craig Anderson

1972

(1 episode)

1971		Lady Liberty as Policeman (uncredited)
1971		Great Performances (1 episode) as Self

1951

(1 episode) as Doug Bedloe (1 episode) (1 episode) as Folsom

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