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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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Washington, District of Columbia, USA, 1943-07-21

Died: 2014-12-31

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Lady Liberty	Policeman (uncredited)	55
2	1973	The Paper Chase	Thomas Craig Anderson	68
3	1973	The Day of the Dolphin	Mike	58
4	1974	The Great Gatsby	Klipspringer	63
5	1975	The Great Waldo Pepper	Ezra Stiles	64
6	1975	Valley Forge		0
7	1977	Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years	Franklin D. Roosevelt	51
8	1978	A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story	Lou Gehrig	90
9	1978	The Betsy	Dan Weyman	44
10	1978	Brass Target	Col. Walter Gilchrist	55
11	1979	Take Down	Ed Branish	37
12	1979	The North Avenue Irregulars	Michael Hill	63
13	1979	Portrait of a Stripper	Frank Andrews	25
14	1979	The Sorrows of Gin	Kip Lawton	100
15	1979	Freedom Road	Stephen Holmes	48
16	1979	O Youth and Beauty!	Kip Lawton	100
17	1981	Harry's War	Harry Johnson	52
18	1981	The Private History of a Campaign That Failed	The Stranger	0
19	1981	Reds	Max Eastman	69
20	1982	The Electric Grandmother	Father	68
21	1982	The Gift of Life	Dr. Quinn	0
22	1982	A Little Sex	Tommy	30
23	1982	Death Valley	Paul Stanton	51
24	1982	Annie	FDR	65
25	1983	Memorial Day	Ned Larwin	53
26	1984	Mrs. Soffel	Warden Peter Soffel	60
27	1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Henry	74
28	1985	The Man with One Red Shoe	Brown	57
29	1985	Compromising Positions	Bob Singer	55
30	1986	Murrow	Fred Friendly	50
31	1987	The Lost Boys	Max	71
32	1987	Overboard	Grant Stayton III	68
33	1988	Big Business	Graham Sherbourne	63
34	1990	So Proudly We Hail	James Wagner	0
35	1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self	40
36	1991	Sweet Poison	Henry	50
37	1991	Fire in the Dark	Robert	0
38	1992	Hero	Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide	63
39	1993	Born Yesterday	Ed Deverey	53
40	1993	My Boyfriend's Back	Mr. Dingle	57
41	1993	A Foreign Field	Ralph	0
42	1994	Foreign Student	Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore	38
43	1994	Don't Drink the Water	Mr. Kilroy	55
44	1994	Ri¢hie Ri¢h	Richard Rich	59
45	1995	Here Come the Munsters	Herman Munster	52
46	1995	The Face on the Milk Carton	Frank Jessmon	64
47	1995	Nixon	Nelson Rockefeller	69
48	1996	Soul of the Game	Branch Rickey	49
49	1996	A Season in Purgatory	Dr. Shugrue	60
50	1996	What Love Sees	Morton Treadway	68
51	1997	Critical Care	Robert Payne	64
52	1998	Frank Lloyd Wright	Narrator (voice)	0
53	1998	Better Living	Jack	15
54	1998	Saint Maybe	Doug Bedloe	62
55	1999	Walking Across Egypt	Reverend Vernon	49
56	1999	Niagara: A History of the Falls	Narrator	0
57	1999	Norman Rockwell: Painting America	Narrator	0
58	1999	Vendetta	D.A. Luzenberg	58
59	2001	Double Take	Charles Allsworth	55
60	2001	The Face: Jesus in Art	Narrator (voice)	0
61	2001	James Dean	Raymond Massey	68
62	2001	Down	Milligan	51
63	2001	The Cat's Meow	W. R. Hearst	58
64	2001	In Search of Christmas	Narrator	0
65	2002	Antarctica: A Frozen History	Narrator	0
66	2002	It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')	Self	0
67	2002	The World Trade Center -Rise and Fall of an American Icon	Narrator	70
68	2002	Dinosaur Secrets Revealed	Narrator (voice)	70
69	2002	The Emperor's Club	Headmaster Woodbridge	71
70	2003	Stalin: Man of Steel	Narrator (voice)	0
71	2003	The Samurai	self (voice)	0
72	2003	Russia, Land of the Tsars	Narrator	70
73	2003	The Louisiana Purchase	Narrator	0
74	2003	Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion	Narrator	50
75	2003	Intolerable Cruelty	Rex Rexroth	59
76	2004	Welcome to Mooseport	Avery Hightower Debate Moderator (uncredited)	51
77	2004	Isaac's Storm	Narrator	60
78	2004	First Invasion: The War of 1812	Narrator	0
79	2004	Bereft	Lloyd	37
80	2004	The Aviator	Joseph Breen	72
81	2005	The French Revolution	Narrator	53
82	2005	FDR: A Presidency Revealed	Narrator	0
83	2005	The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy	Narrator	80
84	2005	Bible Battles	Narrator (voice)	0
85	2005	Ape to Man	Narrator	70
86	2006	Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces	Narrator (voice)	100
87	2006	Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran	Narrator	0
88	2006	Relative Strangers	Doug Clayton	52
89	2006	Wedding Daze	Lyle	55
90	2006	Witness to 'Reds'	Self	60
91	2006	Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower	Self - Narrator (voice)	85
92	2006	Factory Girl	James Townsend	60
93	2007	I Think I Love My Wife	Mr. Landis	54
94	2007	Banned from the Bible II	Narrator	0
95	2007	Sherman's March	Narrator	0
96	2007	Titanic's Achilles Heel	Narrator	100
97	2007	Columbus The Lost Voyage	Narrator	67
98	2007	Andrew Jackson	Narrator	100
99	2009	Morristown: Where America Survived	Narrator	0
100	2009	Hatching Pete	The Principal	55
101	2009	The Skeptic	Shepard	53
102	2009	The Six Wives of Henry Lefay	John Goodenough	52
103	2009	Ring Christmas Bells	Self	0
104	2011	Son of Morning	Thomas	30
105	2011	Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star	Jeremiah Larson	42
106	2011	Redemption: For Robbing the Dead	Governor Dawson	40
107	2011	A Christmas Wish	Les McCallum	59
108	2011	The Christmas Pageant	Garrett Clark	59
109	2012	Treasure Buddies	Philip Wellington	60
110	2012	Christmas Oranges	Mr. Crampton	74
111	2012	Price Check	Jack Bennington	52
112	2012	Heaven's Door	Nate Christensen	56
113	2013	Are You Here	Dr. Vincent	52
114	2013	The Wolf of Wall Street	Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)	80
115	2014	The Town that Dreaded Sundown	Reverend Cartwright	57
116	2016	Coach of the Year	Bill Ford	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Folsom	86
2	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame		86
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Doug Bedloe	86
4	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
5	1972	MAS*H		79
6	1975	Beacon Hill	Richard Palmer	50
7	1976	Eleanor and Franklin	Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Age 20-50	30
8	1982	Nature	Narrator (voice)	81
9	1982	St. Elsewhere		55
10	1985	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Dr. Maxwell Stoddard / Litton	72
11	1987	The Lawrenceville Stories	Head Master	50
12	1989	Screen One	Ralph	70
13	1990	Wings	Y.M. Burg	69
14	1990	Law & Order	Frederic Matson	74
15	1990	Law & Order	Drew Seeley	74
16	1990	Law & Order	Defense Attorney Mosbeck	74
17	1993	Homicide: Life on the Street		80
18	1995	Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain	Thomas Jefferson (voice)	0
19	1996	Pandora's Clock	President	44
20	1997	The Practice	Anderson Pearson	77
21	1997	Liberty!	Narrator	78
22	1998	Frank Lloyd Wright	Himself - Narrator (voice)	72
23	1999	Ultimate autos	host	0
24	1999	Atomic Train	The President	48
25	1999	The Korean War: Fire and Ice	Narrator	65
26	2000	Gilmore Girls	Richard Gilmore	79
27	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Mr. Vogel	76
28	2000	Founding Fathers	Narrator	0
29	2001	Crossing Jordan	Thomas Malden	72
30	2002	Rise and Fall of the Spartans	Narrator (voice)	83
31	2003	Russia, Land of the Tsars		100
32	2004	Tom Goes to the Mayor	Benjamin Kaplan (voice)	68
33	2005	French Revolution	Narrator	0
34	2005	The Presidents	Narrator	63
35	2005	American Dad!	Councilman (voice)	70
36	2005	American Dad!	Old Man (voice)	70
37	2005	Grey's Anatomy	Norman Shales	82
38	2005	How I Met Your Mother	Reverend Lowell	81
39	2006	30 Rock	Walter	75
40	2007	The States		0
41		History's Lost & Found		10
42	2006	The Ten Commandments	Narrator	54
43	2007	The Revolution		97
44	2009	Drop Dead Diva	Reverend Phillips	77
45	2009	The Good Wife	Lionel Deerfield	76
46	2010	Better With You	Judge	65
47	2011	Harry's Law	Lester Babcock	73
48	2012	Perception	Jack Pierce	72
49	2014	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History	Franklin Roosevelt (voice)	79
50	2016	Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life	Richard Gilmore (archive sound) (uncredited)	73
51		Wonder Woman	Senator Warren	49
52	2015	Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies	Narrator (voice)	76