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Edward Herrmann
Born · July 21, 1943
Died · December 31, 2014 (71 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Bio
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.
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Richard Gilmore (archive sound) (uncredited) · (1 episode)
7.3
2016
Coach of the Year
Bill Ford
0.0
2016
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
Reverend Cartwright
5.7
2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Franklin Roosevelt (voice) · (7 episodes)
8.3
2014
The Wolf of Wall Street
Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)
8.0
2013
Are You Here
Dr. Vincent
5.1
2013
Heaven's Door
Nate Christensen
5.6
2012
Price Check
Jack Bennington
5.2
2012
Perception
Jack Pierce · (1 episode)
7.2
2012
Christmas Oranges
Mr. Crampton
7.3
2012
Treasure Buddies
Philip Wellington
6.1
2012
The Christmas Pageant
Garrett Clark
5.9
2011
A Christmas Wish
Les McCallum
6.0
2011
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
Governor Dawson
4.0
2011
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
Jeremiah Larson
4.3
2011
Son of Morning
Thomas
3.1
2011
Better With You
Judge · (1 episode)
6.4
2010
The Good Wife
Lionel Deerfield · (6 episodes)
7.6
2009
Ring Christmas Bells
Self
0.0
2009
Drop Dead Diva
Reverend Phillips · (1 episode)
7.7
2009
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
John Goodenough
5.3
2009
The Skeptic
Shepard
5.4
2009
Hatching Pete
The Principal
5.5
2009
Morristown: Where America Survived
Narrator
0.0
2009
Andrew Jackson
Narrator
10.0
2007
Columbus The Lost Voyage
Narrator
6.7
2007
The Revolution
(13 episodes)
9.7
2007
Titanic's Achilles Heel
Narrator
10.0
2007
Sherman's March
Narrator
0.0
2007
The States
(10 episodes)
0.0
2007
Banned from the Bible II
Narrator
0.0
2007
I Think I Love My Wife
Mr. Landis
5.4
2007
Factory Girl
James Townsend
6.0
2006
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower
Self - Narrator (voice)
8.5
2006
Witness to 'Reds'
Self
6.0
2006
30 Rock
Walter · (1 episode)
7.4
2006
Wedding Daze
Lyle
5.5
2006
Relative Strangers
Doug Clayton
5.2
2006
The Ten Commandments
Narrator · (2 episodes)
5.4
2006
Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran
Narrator
0.0
2006
Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces
Narrator (voice)
10.0
2006
Ape to Man
Narrator
7.0
2005
Bible Battles
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2005
The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy
Narrator
8.0
2005
How I Met Your Mother
Reverend Lowell · (1 episode)
8.2
2005
FDR: A Presidency Revealed
Narrator
0.0
2005
Grey's Anatomy
Norman Shales · (3 episodes)
8.2
2005
American Dad!
Councilman (voice) · (1 episode)
7.0
2005
American Dad!
Old Man (voice) · (1 episode)
7.0
2005
The Presidents
Narrator · (9 episodes)
6.3
2005
The French Revolution
Narrator
5.3
2005
French Revolution
Narrator · (2 episodes)
0.0
2005
The Aviator
Joseph Breen
7.2
2004
Tom Goes to the Mayor
Benjamin Kaplan (voice) · (1 episode)
7.0
2004
Bereft
Lloyd
5.0
2004
First Invasion: The War of 1812
Narrator
0.0
2004
Isaac's Storm
Narrator
6.0
2004
Welcome to Mooseport
Debate Moderator
5.1
2004
Intolerable Cruelty
Rex Rexroth
5.9
2003
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Narrator
5.0
2003
Russia, Land of the Tsars
(4 episodes)
10.0
2003
The Louisiana Purchase
Narrator
0.0
2003
Russia, Land of the Tsars
Narrator
7.0
2003
Stalin: Man of Steel
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2003
The Samurai
self (voice)
0.0
2003
The Emperor's Club
Headmaster Woodbridge
7.1
2002
Dinosaur Secrets Revealed
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2002
Rise and Fall of the Spartans
Narrator (voice) · (2 episodes)
8.3
2002
The World Trade Center -Rise and Fall of an American Icon
Narrator
7.0
2002
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
Self
0.0
2002
Antarctica: A Frozen History
Narrator
0.0
2002
In Search of Christmas
Narrator
0.0
2001
The Cat's Meow
W. R. Hearst
5.8
2001
Crossing Jordan
Thomas Malden · (1 episode)
7.2
2001
Down
Milligan
5.1
2001
James Dean
Raymond Massey
6.8
2001
The Face: Jesus in Art
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2001
Double Take
Charles Allsworth
5.5
2001
Founding Fathers
Narrator · (4 episodes)
0.0
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Mr. Vogel · (1 episode)
7.6
2000
Gilmore Girls
Richard Gilmore · (153 episodes)
7.9
2000
Vendetta
D.A. Luzenberg
6.3
1999
Atomic Train
The President · (2 episodes)
4.8
1999
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
Narrator
0.0
1999
Niagara: A History of the Falls
Narrator
0.0
1999
Walking Across Egypt
Reverend Vernon
4.9
1999
Saint Maybe
Doug Bedloe
6.2
1998
Frank Lloyd Wright
Himself - Narrator (voice) · (2 episodes)
7.2
1998
Better Living
Jack
1.5
1998
Liberty!
Narrator · (6 episodes)
7.8
1997
Critical Care
Robert Payne
6.4
1997
The Practice
Anderson Pearson · (10 episodes)
7.7
1997
Pandora's Clock
President · (2 episodes)
4.4
1996
What Love Sees
Morton Treadway
3.5
1996
A Season in Purgatory
Dr. Shugrue
6.0
1996
Soul of the Game
Branch Rickey
4.4
1996
Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
6.9
1995
The Face on the Milk Carton
Frank Jessmon
6.3
1995
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
Thomas Jefferson (voice) · (2 episodes)
0.0
1995
Here Come the Munsters
Herman Munster
5.3
1995
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Richard Rich
5.9
1994
Don't Drink the Water
Mr. Kilroy
5.6
1994
Foreign Student
Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore
4.5
1994
A Foreign Field
Ralph
0.0
1993
My Boyfriend's Back
Mr. Dingle
5.7
1993
Born Yesterday
Ed Deverey
5.3
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
(1 episode)
8.0
1993
Hero
Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide
6.3
1992
Fire in the Dark
Robert
0.0
1991
Sweet Poison
Henry
4.8
1991
Law & Order
Drew Seeley · (1 episode)
7.4
1990
Law & Order
Defense Attorney Mosbeck · (1 episode)
7.4
1990
Screen One
Ralph · (1 episode)
7.0
1989
The Lawrenceville Stories
Head Master · (3 episodes)
5.0
1987
Beacon Hill
Richard Palmer · (11 episodes)
5.0
1975
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Folsom · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
History's Lost & Found
(8 episodes)
1.0
Law & Order
Frederic Matson · (1 episode)
7.4
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
4.0
1990
Wings
Y.M. Burg · (1 episode)
6.9
1990
So Proudly We Hail
James Wagner
0.0
1990
Big Business
Graham Sherbourne
6.3
1988
Overboard
Grant Stayton III
6.8
1987
The Lost Boys
Max
7.1
1987
Murrow
Fred Friendly
5.0
1986
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Dr. Maxwell Stoddard / Litton · (1 episode)
7.3
1985
Compromising Positions
Bob Singer
5.5
1985
The Man with One Red Shoe
Brown
5.7
1985
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Henry
7.4
1985
Mrs. Soffel
Warden Peter Soffel
6.1
1984
Memorial Day
Ned Larwin
6.2
1983
St. Elsewhere
(2 episodes)
5.4
1982
Nature
Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
8.1
1982
Annie
FDR
6.5
1982
Death Valley
Paul Stanton
5.2
1982
A Little Sex
Tommy
3.4
1982
The Gift of Life
Dr. Quinn
0.0
1982
The Electric Grandmother
Father
6.8
1982
Reds
Max Eastman
6.9
1981
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
The Stranger
0.0
1981
Harry's War
Harry Johnson
5.2
1981
O Youth and Beauty!
Kip Lawton
10.0
1979
Freedom Road
Stephen Holmes
4.8
1979
The Sorrows of Gin
Kip Lawton
10.0
1979
Portrait of a Stripper
Frank Andrews
2.5
1979
The North Avenue Irregulars
Michael Hill
6.4
1979
Take Down
Ed Branish
3.7
1979
Brass Target
Col. Walter Gilchrist
5.6
1978
The Betsy
Dan Weyman
4.6
1978
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Lou Gehrig
9.0
1978
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Franklin D. Roosevelt
5.1
1977
Eleanor and Franklin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Age 20-50 · (2 episodes)
3.0
1976
Valley Forge
0.0
1975
The Great Waldo Pepper
Ezra Stiles
6.4
1975
The Great Gatsby
Klipspringer
6.3
1974
The Day of the Dolphin
Mike
5.8
1973
The Paper Chase
Thomas Craig Anderson
6.8
1973
M*A*S*H
(1 episode)
7.9
1972
Lady Liberty
Policeman (uncredited)
5.4
1971
Great Performances
Self · (1 episode)
5.2
1971
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(1 episode)
8.7
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Doug Bedloe · (1 episode)
8.7
1951
Wonder Woman
Senator Warren · (1 episode)
4.7