Edward Herrmann

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1943-07-21

Deathday 2014-12-31 (71 years old)

Place of Birth Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Also Known As Ed Hermann, Edward Herman, Edward Kirk Herrmann

Edward Herrmann

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. Hermann died from brain cancer, Wednesday, December 31, 2014, in a hospital in New York City.

Known For

Actor

Wonder Woman

as Senator Warren

2016
Coach of the Year

as Bill Ford

2016
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

as Richard Gilmore (archive sound) (uncredited)

2014
The Town that Dreaded Sundown

as Reverend Cartwright

2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

as Franklin Roosevelt (voice)

2013
The Wolf of Wall Street

as Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)

2013
Are You Here

as Dr. Vincent

2012
Heaven's Door

as Nate Christensen

2012
Price Check

as Jack Bennington

2012
Christmas Oranges

as Mr. Crampton

2012
Treasure Buddies

as Philip Wellington

2012
Perception

as Jack Pierce

2011
The Christmas Pageant

as Garrett Clark

2011
A Christmas Wish

as Les McCallum

2011
2011
2011
Son of Morning

as Thomas

2010
2009
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

as John Goodenough

2009
The Skeptic

as Shepard

2009
Hatching Pete

as The Principal

2009
The Good Wife

as Lionel Deerfield

2009
Drop Dead Diva

as Reverend Phillips

2007
Andrew Jackson

as Narrator

2007
2007
2007
Sherman's March

as Narrator

2007
2007
2006
Factory Girl

as James Townsend

2006
2006
Wedding Daze

as Lyle

2006
Relative Strangers

as Doug Clayton

2006
30 Rock

as Walter

2006
2005
Ape to Man

as Narrator

2005
Bible Battles

as Narrator (voice)

2005
2005
How I Met Your Mother

as Reverend Lowell

2005
Grey's Anatomy

as Norman Shales

2005
American Dad!

as Councilman (voice)

2005
American Dad!

as Old Man (voice)

2005
The Presidents

as Narrator

2005
French Revolution

as Narrator

2004
The Aviator

as Joseph Breen

2004
Bereft

as Lloyd

2004
Isaac's Storm

as Narrator

2004
Welcome to Mooseport

as Debate Moderator

2004
Tom Goes to the Mayor

as Benjamin Kaplan (voice)

2003
Intolerable Cruelty

as Rex Rexroth

2003
2003
Stalin: Man of Steel

as Narrator (voice)

2003
The Samurai

as self (voice)

2002
The Emperor's Club

as Headmaster Woodbridge

2002
Dinosaur Secrets Revealed

as Narrator (voice)

2002
Rise and Fall of the Spartans

as Narrator (voice)

2001
2001
The Cat's Meow

as W. R. Hearst

2001
Down

as Milligan

2001
James Dean

as Raymond Massey

2001
The Face: Jesus in Art

as Narrator (voice)

2001
Double Take

as Charles Allsworth

2001
Crossing Jordan

as Thomas Malden

2000
Founding Fathers

as Narrator

2000
Gilmore Girls

as Richard Gilmore

1999
Vendetta

as D.A. Luzenberg

1999
Walking Across Egypt

as Reverend Vernon

1999
Atomic Train

as The President

1998
Saint Maybe

as Doug Bedloe

1998
1998
Frank Lloyd Wright

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

1997
Critical Care

as Robert Payne

1997
Liberty!

as Narrator

1997
The Practice

as Anderson Pearson

1996
What Love Sees

as Morton Treadway

1996
A Season in Purgatory

as Dr. Shugrue

1996
Soul of the Game

as Branch Rickey

1996
Pandora's Clock

as President

1995
Nixon

as Nelson Rockefeller

1995
1995
Here Come the Munsters

as Herman Munster

1995
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain

as Thomas Jefferson (voice)

1994
Ri¢hie Ri¢h

as Richard Rich

1994
Don't Drink the Water

as Mr. Kilroy

1994
Foreign Student

as Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore

1993
1993
My Boyfriend's Back

as Mr. Dingle

1993
Born Yesterday

as Ed Deverey

1992
Hero

as Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide

1991
1991
Sweet Poison

as Henry

1990
So Proudly We Hail

as James Wagner

1990
Law & Order

as Frederic Matson

1990
Law & Order

as Drew Seeley

1990
Law & Order

as Defense Attorney Mosbeck

1990
Wings

as Y.M. Burg

1989
Screen One

as Ralph

1988
Big Business

as Graham Sherbourne

1987
Overboard

as Grant Stayton III

1987
1987
1986
Murrow

as Fred Friendly

1985
1985
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Dr. Maxwell Stoddard / Litton

1984
Mrs. Soffel

as Warden Peter Soffel

1983
Memorial Day

as Ned Larwin

1982
Annie

as FDR

1982
Death Valley

as Paul Stanton

1982
A Little Sex

as Tommy

1982
The Gift of Life

as Dr. Quinn

1982
Nature

as Narrator (voice)

1981
Reds

as Max Eastman

1981
Harry's War

as Harry Johnson

1979
O Youth and Beauty!

as Kip Lawton

1979
Freedom Road

as Stephen Holmes

1979
The Sorrows of Gin

as Kip Lawton

1979
Portrait of a Stripper

as Frank Andrews

1979
1979
Take Down

as Ed Branish

1978
Brass Target

as Col. Walter Gilchrist

1978
The Betsy

as Dan Weyman

1977
1976
Eleanor and Franklin

as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Age 20-50

1975
The Great Waldo Pepper

as Ezra Stiles

1975
Beacon Hill

as Richard Palmer

1974
The Great Gatsby

as Klipspringer

1973
The Paper Chase

as Thomas Craig Anderson

1971
Lady Liberty

as Policeman (uncredited)

1971
1951
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Doug Bedloe

Crew