Edward Herrmann
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.
165 acting credits
Acting · 165
Law & Order
1990
Grey's Anatomy
2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
American Dad!
2005
How I Met Your Mother
2005
The Good Wife
2009
Gilmore Girls
2000
Crossing Jordan
2001
30 Rock
2006
M*A*S*H
1972
The Practice
1997
Great Performances
1971
St. Elsewhere
1982
Wings
1990
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Nature
1982
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
Drop Dead Diva
2009
Harry's Law
2011
Perception
2012
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
Tom Goes to the Mayor
2004
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
2016
The Lost Boys
1987
Better With You
2010
The Aviator
2004
Screen One
1989
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
1994
Overboard
1987
Liberty!
1997
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
Pandora's Clock
1996
Hero
1992
The Ten Commandments
2006
The Great Gatsby
1974
Nixon
1995
Wonder Woman
—
Reds
1981
Annie
1982
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
Wedding Daze
2006
Beacon Hill
1975
Hothouse
1988
Factory Girl
2006
Atomic Train
1999
The Presidents
2005
The Man with One Red Shoe
1985
Founding Fathers
2000
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014
Are You Here
2013
Eleanor and Franklin
1976
A Little Sex
1982
A Season in Purgatory
1996
I Think I Love My Wife
2007
Down
2001
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
2011
The Lawrenceville Stories
1987
The Emperor's Club
2002
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
1978
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
1995
The Cat's Meow
2001
Big Business
1988
Soul of the Game
1996
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
2009
My Boyfriend's Back
1993
Mrs. Soffel
1984
Brass Target
1978
Double Take
2001
James Dean
2001
Hatching Pete
2009
The Skeptic
2009
Critical Care
1997
The Great Waldo Pepper
1975
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Treasure Buddies
2012
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
2011
Born Yesterday
1993
Relative Strangers
2006
Don't Drink the Water
1994
Here Come the Munsters
1995
Price Check
2012
Death Valley
1982
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Sweet Poison
1991
Frank Lloyd Wright
1998
The Betsy
1978
Son of Morning
2011
Take Down
1979
Vendetta
1999
Russia, Land of the Tsars
2003
The North Avenue Irregulars
1979
A Season in Purgatory
1996
The Day of the Dolphin
1973
Saint Maybe
1998
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
2015
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1981
Harry's War
1981
The Korean War: Fire and Ice
1999
The Revolution
2007
A Foreign Field
1993
Freedom Road
1979
Compromising Positions
1985
The Paper Chase
1973
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower
2006
Lady Liberty
1971
Christmas Oranges
2012
Bereft
2004
The Sorrows of Gin
1979
Portrait of a Stripper
1979
The States
2007
Heaven's Door
2012
Murrow
1986
History's Lost & Found
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Rise and Fall of the Spartans
2002
Foreign Student
1994
French Revolution
2005
The Christmas Pageant
2011
What Love Sees
1996
Memorial Day
1983
Stalin: Man of Steel
2003
The Gift of Life
1982
A Christmas Wish
2011
Valley Forge
1975
Walking Across Egypt
1999
The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution
2001
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
2002
The Face on the Milk Carton
1995
Sherman's March
2007
O Youth and Beauty!
1979
Better Living
1998
So Proudly We Hail
1990
Fire in the Dark
1991
The Electric Grandmother
1982
Antarctica: A Frozen History
2002
Coach of the Year
2016
The Samurai
2003
Niagara: A History of the Falls
1999
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003
Ultimate autos
1999
The Face: Jesus in Art
2001
Titanic's Achilles Heel
2007
Andrew Jackson
2007
The French Revolution
2005
Dinosaur Secrets Revealed
2002
Columbus The Lost Voyage
2007
Witness to 'Reds'
2006
FDR: A Presidency Revealed
2005
Ape to Man
2005
Russia, Land of the Tsars
2003
Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces
2006
Bible Battles
2005
Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran
2006
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
1999
Morristown: Where America Survived
2009
Ring Christmas Bells
2009
The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy
2005
In Search of Christmas
2001
Isaac's Storm
2004
First Invasion: The War of 1812
2004
Dear Liar
1981
The Louisiana Purchase
2003
Banned from the Bible II
2007