Edward Herrmann
Acting
- Born:
- 1943-07-21
- Died:
- 2014-12-31
- 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
Filmography
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Coach of the Year
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
The Wolf of Wall Street
Are You Here
Heaven's Door
Price Check
Perception
Christmas Oranges
Treasure Buddies
The Christmas Pageant
A Christmas Wish
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
Son of Morning
Harry's Law
Better With You
The Good Wife
Ring Christmas Bells
Drop Dead Diva
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
The Skeptic
Hatching Pete
Morristown: Where America Survived
Andrew Jackson
Columbus The Lost Voyage
The Revolution
Titanic's Achilles Heel
Sherman's March
The States
Banned from the Bible II
I Think I Love My Wife
Factory Girl
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower
Witness to 'Reds'
30 Rock
Wedding Daze
Relative Strangers
The Ten Commandments
Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran
Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces
Ape to Man
Bible Battles
The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy
How I Met Your Mother
FDR: A Presidency Revealed
Grey's Anatomy
American Dad!
The Presidents
The French Revolution
French Revolution
The Aviator
Tom Goes to the Mayor
Bereft
First Invasion: The War of 1812
Isaac's Storm
Welcome to Mooseport
Intolerable Cruelty
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Russia, Land of the Tsars
The Louisiana Purchase
Russia, Land of the Tsars
Stalin: Man of Steel
The Samurai
The Emperor's Club
Dinosaur Secrets Revealed
Rise and Fall of the Spartans
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
Antarctica: A Frozen History
The Cat's Meow
In Search of Christmas
Crossing Jordan
Down
James Dean
The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution
The Face: Jesus in Art
Double Take
Founding Fathers
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Gilmore Girls
Walking Across Egypt
The Korean War: Fire and Ice
Vendetta
Atomic Train
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
Niagara: A History of the Falls
Ultimate autos
Saint Maybe
Frank Lloyd Wright
Better Living
Liberty!
Critical Care
The Practice
Pandora's Clock
What Love Sees
A Season in Purgatory
Soul of the Game
Nixon
The Face on the Milk Carton
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
Here Come the Munsters
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Don't Drink the Water
Foreign Student
A Foreign Field
My Boyfriend's Back
Born Yesterday
Homicide: Life on the Street
Hero
Fire in the Dark
Sweet Poison
The General Motors Playwrights Theater
Law & Order
Night of 100 Stars III
Wings
So Proudly We Hail
Screen One
Hothouse
Big Business
Overboard
The Lost Boys
The Lawrenceville Stories
Murrow
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Compromising Positions
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Mrs. Soffel
Memorial Day
St. Elsewhere
Nature
Annie
Death Valley
A Little Sex
The Gift of Life
The Electric Grandmother
American Playhouse
Reds
Dear Liar
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Harry's War
O Youth and Beauty!
Freedom Road
The Sorrows of Gin
Portrait of a Stripper
Take Down
The North Avenue Irregulars
Brass Target
The Betsy
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Eleanor and Franklin
Valley Forge
Beacon Hill
The Great Waldo Pepper
The Great Gatsby
The Day of the Dolphin
The Paper Chase
M*A*S*H
Lady Liberty
Great Performances
Hallmark Hall of Fame
History's Lost & Found
Wonder Woman