Edward Herrmann
Known for: Acting
Born: July 21, 1943
Died: December 31, 2014
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
Banned from the Bible II
2007
Ape to Man
2005
Isaac's Storm
2004
The North Avenue Irregulars
1979
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower
2006
Harry's War
1981
Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces
2006
The French Revolution
2005
The Face: Jesus in Art
2001
So Proudly We Hail
1990
Here Come the Munsters
1995
Christmas Oranges
2012
In Search of Christmas
2001
Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran
2006
Russia, Land of the Tsars
2003
Take Down
1979
Andrew Jackson
2007
First Invasion: The War of 1812
2004
Morristown: Where America Survived
2009
The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy
2005
Titanic's Achilles Heel
2007
Stalin: Man of Steel
2003
The Samurai
2003
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
1999
Antarctica: A Frozen History
2002
Dinosaur Secrets Revealed
2002
FDR: A Presidency Revealed
2005
The Louisiana Purchase
2003
The Cat's Meow
2001
Saint Maybe
1998
The Electric Grandmother
1982
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
1978
Portrait of a Stripper
1979
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977
Ring Christmas Bells
2009
A Christmas Wish
2011
The Sorrows of Gin
1979
Sweet Poison
1991
Dear Liar
1981
Overboard
1987
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
1994
Reds
1981
Soul of the Game
1996
Compromising Positions
1985
Niagara: A History of the Falls
1999
Better Living
1998
A Little Sex
1982
Son of Morning
2011
Don't Drink the Water
1994
My Boyfriend's Back
1993
Mrs. Soffel
1984
Big Business
1988
Foreign Student
1994
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003
Freedom Road
1979
Coach of the Year
2016
The Christmas Pageant
2011
A Season in Purgatory
1996
Born Yesterday
1993
Witness to 'Reds'
2006
The Lost Boys
1987
James Dean
2001
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
The Skeptic
2009
I Think I Love My Wife
2007
Down
2001
The Face on the Milk Carton
1995
Fire in the Dark
1991
Walking Across Egypt
1999
The Man with One Red Shoe
1985
The Paper Chase
1973
The Great Waldo Pepper
1975
Death Valley
1982
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
2002
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1981
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985
Murrow
1986
Memorial Day
1983
Double Take
2001
Heaven's Door
2012
Bereft
2004
Treasure Buddies
2012
Columbus The Lost Voyage
2007
A Foreign Field
1993
Relative Strangers
2006
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
2011
Wedding Daze
2006
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
2009
Brass Target
1978
The Emperor's Club
2002
Sherman's March
2007
The Gift of Life
1982
The Betsy
1978
The Day of the Dolphin
1973
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014
The Great Gatsby
1974
Critical Care
1997
What Love Sees
1996
Vendetta
1999
Hatching Pete
2009
O Youth and Beauty!
1979
Factory Girl
2006
Annie
1982
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
2011
Price Check
2012
The Aviator
2004
Valley Forge
1975
Nixon
1995
Bible Battles
2005
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Are You Here
2013
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
Lady Liberty
1971
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Hero
1992
St. Elsewhere
1982
M*A*S*H
1972
Crossing Jordan
2001
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Wings
1990
Tom Goes to the Mayor
2004
The Practice
1997
30 Rock
2006
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Gilmore Girls
2000
The States
2007
History's Lost & Found
Nature
1982
Beacon Hill
1975
The Revolution
2007
Russia, Land of the Tsars
2003
Law & Order
1990
Screen One
1989
French Revolution
2005
Perception
2012
The Presidents
2005
American Dad!
2005
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
1995
The Good Wife
2009
Liberty!
1997
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
2016
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Drop Dead Diva
2009
Atomic Train
1999
Eleanor and Franklin
1976
Frank Lloyd Wright
1998
Pandora's Clock
1996
Rise and Fall of the Spartans
2002
Founding Fathers
2000
The Lawrenceville Stories
1987
Better With You
2010
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
Great Performances
1971
Wonder Woman
The Ten Commandments
2006
The Korean War: Fire and Ice
1999
Ultimate autos
1999
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
2015
Harry's Law
2011
A Season in Purgatory
1996
Hothouse
1988
The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution
2001