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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 21, 1943
Died
December 31, 2014
Place of Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Also Known As
- Ed Hermann
- Edward Herman
- Edward Kirk Herrmann
- اد هرمان
- اِد هرمان
Edward Herrmann
1.7 Popularity
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
7.3
Richard Gilmore (archive sound) (uncredited)
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
2016
0.0
Bill Ford
Coach of the Year
2016
7.7
Narrator (voice)
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
2015
5.8
Reverend Cartwright
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014
7.7
Franklin Roosevelt (voice)
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
8.0
Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013
5.1
Dr. Vincent
Are You Here
2013
5.6
Nate Christensen
Heaven's Door
2012
5.1
Jack Bennington
Price Check
2012
7.2
Jack Pierce
Perception
2012
Credits
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
as Richard Gilmore (archive sound) (uncredited)
2016
7.3
Coach of the Year
as Bill Ford
2016
0.0
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
as Narrator (voice)
2015
7.7
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
as Reverend Cartwright
2014
5.8
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as Franklin Roosevelt (voice)
2014
7.7
The Wolf of Wall Street
as Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)
2013
8.0
Are You Here
as Dr. Vincent
2013
5.1
Heaven's Door
as Nate Christensen
2012
5.6
Price Check
as Jack Bennington
2012
5.1
Perception
as Jack Pierce
2012
7.2
Christmas Oranges
as Mr. Crampton
2012
7.4
Treasure Buddies
as Philip Wellington
2012
6.1
The Christmas Pageant
as Garrett Clark
2011
5.9
A Christmas Wish
as Les McCallum
2011
5.9
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
as Governor Dawson
2011
2.5
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
as Jeremiah Larson
2011
4.2
Son of Morning
as Thomas
2011
2.9
Harry's Law
as Lester Babcock
2011
7.3
Better With You
as Judge
2010
6.5
The Good Wife
as Lionel Deerfield
2009
7.6
Ring Christmas Bells
as Self
2009
0.0
Drop Dead Diva
as Reverend Phillips
2009
7.7
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
as John Goodenough
2009
5.2
The Skeptic
as Shepard
2009
5.4
Hatching Pete
as The Principal
2009
5.5
Morristown: Where America Survived
as Narrator
2009
0.0
Andrew Jackson
as Narrator
2007
10.0
Columbus The Lost Voyage
as Narrator
2007
7.0
The Revolution
2007
9.2
Titanic's Achilles Heel
as Narrator
2007
10.0
Sherman's March
as Narrator
2007
0.0
The States
2007
0.0
Banned from the Bible II
as Narrator
2007
0.0
I Think I Love My Wife
as Mr. Landis
2007
5.3
Factory Girl
as James Townsend
2006
6.0
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
8.5
Witness to 'Reds'
as Self
2006
6.0
30 Rock
as Walter
2006
7.5
Wedding Daze
as Lyle
2006
5.6
Relative Strangers
as Doug Clayton
2006
5.2
The Ten Commandments
as Narrator
2006
5.4
Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran
as Narrator
2006
0.0
🎬
Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces
as Narrator (voice)
2006
10.0
Ape to Man
as Narrator
2005
7.0
Bible Battles
as Narrator (voice)
2005
0.0
The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy
as Narrator
2005
8.0
How I Met Your Mother
as Reverend Lowell
2005
8.1
🎬
FDR: A Presidency Revealed
as Narrator
2005
0.0
Grey's Anatomy
as Norman Shales
2005
8.2
American Dad!
as Councilman (voice)
2005
7.0
American Dad!
as Old Man (voice)
2005
7.0
The Presidents
as Narrator
2005
6.3
French Revolution
as Narrator
2005
0.0
The French Revolution
as Narrator
2005
5.3
The Aviator
as Joseph Breen
2004
7.2
Tom Goes to the Mayor
as Benjamin Kaplan (voice)
2004
6.8
Bereft
as Lloyd
2004
5.0
First Invasion: The War of 1812
as Narrator
2004
0.0
Isaac's Storm
as Narrator
2004
6.0
Welcome to Mooseport
as Avery Hightower Debate Moderator (uncredited)
2004
5.1
Intolerable Cruelty
as Rex Rexroth
2003
5.9
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
as Narrator
2003
5.0
Russia, Land of the Tsars
2003
10.0
The Louisiana Purchase
as Narrator
2003
0.0
Russia, Land of the Tsars
as Narrator
2003
7.0
🎬
The Samurai
as self (voice)
2003
0.0
Stalin: Man of Steel
as Narrator (voice)
2003
0.0
The Emperor's Club
as Headmaster Woodbridge
2002
7.1
🎬
Dinosaur Secrets Revealed
as Narrator (voice)
2002
7.0
Rise and Fall of the Spartans
as Narrator (voice)
2002
8.3
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
as Self
2002
0.0
🎬
Antarctica: A Frozen History
as Narrator
2002
0.0
🎬
In Search of Christmas
as Narrator
2001
0.0
The Cat's Meow
as W. R. Hearst
2001
5.8
Crossing Jordan
as Thomas Malden
2001
7.2
Down
as Milligan
2001
5.0
James Dean
as Raymond Massey
2001
6.7
🎬
The Face: Jesus in Art
as Narrator (voice)
2001
0.0
Double Take
as Charles Allsworth
2001
5.5
Founding Fathers
as Narrator
2000
0.0
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Mr. Vogel
2000
7.6
Gilmore Girls
as Richard Gilmore
2000
7.9
The Korean War: Fire and Ice
as Narrator
1999
6.5
Vendetta
as D.A. Luzenberg
1999
5.8
Atomic Train
as The President
1999
4.7
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
as Narrator
1999
0.0
Niagara: A History of the Falls
as Narrator
1999
0.0
Walking Across Egypt
as Reverend Vernon
1999
4.7
🎬
Ultimate autos
as host
1999
0.0
Saint Maybe
as Doug Bedloe
1998
6.2
Frank Lloyd Wright
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1998
7.3
Better Living
as Jack
1998
1.7
Liberty!
as Narrator
1997
7.8
Critical Care
as Robert Payne
1997
6.4
The Practice
as Anderson Pearson
1997
7.6
Pandora's Clock
as President
1996
4.4
What Love Sees
as Morton Treadway
1996
6.8
🎬
A Season in Purgatory
as Dr. Shugrue
1996
0.0
A Season in Purgatory
as Dr. Shugrue
1996
6.0
Soul of the Game
as Branch Rickey
1996
4.6
Nixon
as Nelson Rockefeller
1995
6.9
The Face on the Milk Carton
as Frank Jessmon
1995
6.4
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1995
0.0
Here Come the Munsters
as Herman Munster
1995
5.1
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
as Richard Rich
1994
5.9
Don't Drink the Water
as Mr. Kilroy
1994
5.5
Foreign Student
as Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore
1994
3.8
A Foreign Field
as Ralph
1993
0.0
My Boyfriend's Back
as Mr. Dingle
1993
5.7
Born Yesterday
as Ed Deverey
1993
5.3
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
8.1
Hero
as Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide
1992
6.3
Fire in the Dark
as Robert
1991
0.0
Sweet Poison
as Henry
1991
5.0
Law & Order
as Frederic Matson
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Drew Seeley
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Mosbeck
1990
7.4
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
1990
4.0
Wings
as Y.M. Burg
1990
6.9
So Proudly We Hail
as James Wagner
1990
0.0
Screen One
as Ralph
1989
7.0
Hothouse
as Woods
1988
5.0
Big Business
as Graham Sherbourne
1988
6.3
Overboard
as Grant Stayton III
1987
6.8
The Lost Boys
as Max
1987
7.1
The Lawrenceville Stories
as Head Master
1987
5.0
Murrow
as Fred Friendly
1986
5.0
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Dr. Maxwell Stoddard / Litton
1985
7.2
Compromising Positions
as Bob Singer
1985
5.2
The Man with One Red Shoe
as Brown
1985
5.7
The Purple Rose of Cairo
as Henry
1985
7.4
Mrs. Soffel
as Warden Peter Soffel
1984
6.0
🎬
Memorial Day
as Ned Larwin
1983
5.3
St. Elsewhere
as Father Joseph McCabe
1982
5.6
Nature
as Narrator (voice)
1982
7.8
Annie
as FDR
1982
6.5
Death Valley
as Paul Stanton
1982
5.0
A Little Sex
as Tommy
1982
2.9
The Gift of Life
as Dr. Quinn
1982
0.0
The Electric Grandmother
as Father
1982
6.8
Reds
as Max Eastman
1981
6.9
🎬
Dear Liar
as George Bernard Shaw
1981
0.0
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
as The Stranger
1981
0.0
Harry's War
as Harry Johnson
1981
5.2
O Youth and Beauty!
as Kip Lawton
1979
10.0
Freedom Road
as Stephen Holmes
1979
4.8
The Sorrows of Gin
as Kip Lawton
1979
10.0
Portrait of a Stripper
as Frank Andrews
1979
2.0
The North Avenue Irregulars
as Michael Hill
1979
6.2
Take Down
as Ed Branish
1979
3.3
Brass Target
as Col. Walter Gilchrist
1978
5.4
The Betsy
as Dan Weyman
1978
4.5
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
as Lou Gehrig
1978
9.0
🎬
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
1977
4.4
Eleanor and Franklin
as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Age 20-50
1976
2.3
Valley Forge
1975
0.0
Beacon Hill
as Richard Palmer
1975
5.0
The Great Waldo Pepper
as Ezra Stiles
1975
6.5
The Great Gatsby
as Klipspringer
1974
6.3
The Day of the Dolphin
as Mike
1973
5.8
The Paper Chase
as Thomas Craig Anderson
1973
6.8
M*A*S*H
1972
7.9
Lady Liberty
as Policeman (uncredited)
1971
5.3
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Folsom
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Doug Bedloe
1951
8.6
Wonder Woman
as Senator Warren
N/A
4.9
🎬
History's Lost & Found
N/A
1.0