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Edward Herrmann1943 - 2014

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Actor

Popularity

2.7

Famous

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.

Credits

Coach of the Year

2016

Comedy • Family

as Bill Ford

0(0)

0.2

The Town that Dreaded Sundown

2014

Horror • Thriller

as Reverend Cartwright

5.7(474)

1.2

The Wolf of Wall Street

2013

Comedy • Crime • Drama

as Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)

8(24,598)

22.6

Are You Here

2013

Comedy

as Dr. Vincent

5.2(279)

2.1

Heaven's Door

2012

Drama • Family • Fantasy

as Nate Christensen

5.6(14)

0.3

Price Check

2012

Comedy • Drama

as Jack Bennington

5.2(37)

0.5

Christmas Oranges

2012

Drama • Family

as Mr. Crampton

7.3(23)

0.3

Treasure Buddies

2012

Adventure • Family

as Philip Wellington

6.1(113)

The Christmas Pageant

2011

Family • TV Movie

as Garrett Clark

5.9(15)

0.2

A Christmas Wish

2011

Comedy • Drama • Family • TV Movie

as Les McCallum

5.9(59)

0.8

Redemption: For Robbing the Dead

2011

Western

as Governor Dawson

4(1)

0.3

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star

2011

Comedy

as Jeremiah Larson

4.3(179)

1.3

Son of Morning

2011

Comedy • Drama

as Thomas

3.1(17)

0.4

Ring Christmas Bells

2009

Documentary • Music • TV Movie

as Self

0(0)

0.1

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

2009

Comedy

as John Goodenough

5.2(109)

0.6

The Skeptic

2009

Horror • Thriller

as Shepard

5.3(100)

0.4

Hatching Pete

2009

Comedy • Family • TV Movie

as The Principal

5.5(181)

0.8

Morristown: Where America Survived

2009

Documentary • History • War

as Narrator

0(0)

0.3

Andrew Jackson

2007

Documentary • History

as Narrator

10(1)

0.1

Columbus The Lost Voyage

2007

Documentary • Drama • History

as Narrator

6.7(3)

0.2

Titanic's Achilles Heel

2007

Documentary • History

as Narrator

10(1)

0.1

Sherman's March

2007

Documentary • History

as Narrator

0(0)

Banned from the Bible II

2007

Documentary • History

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

I Think I Love My Wife

2007

Comedy • Romance

as Mr. Landis

5.4(188)

0.5

Factory Girl

2006

Drama • History

as James Townsend

6(251)

1.4

Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower

2006

Documentary • History

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.5(2)

0.2

Witness to 'Reds'

2006

Documentary

as Self

6(1)

0.2

Wedding Daze

2006

Comedy • Romance

as Lyle

5.5(373)

2.2

Relative Strangers

2006

Comedy

as Doug Clayton

5.2(72)

0.8

Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran

2006

Documentary • History

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces

2006

Documentary • History

as Narrator (voice)

10(1)

0.1

Ape to Man

2005

Documentary • History

as Narrator

7(6)

0.2

Bible Battles

2005

Documentary • History • TV Movie • War

as Narrator (voice)

0(0)

0.2

The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy

2005

Documentary

as Narrator

8(2)

0.2

FDR: A Presidency Revealed

2005

Documentary

as Narrator

0(0)

0.4

The French Revolution

2005

Documentary • History

as Narrator

5.3(3)

0.5

The Aviator

2004

Drama

as Joseph Breen

7.2(5,469)

5.6

Bereft

2004

Drama

as Lloyd

5(2)

0.6

First Invasion: The War of 1812

2004

Documentary • History • War

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

Isaac's Storm

2004

Documentary • History

as Narrator

6(1)

0.1

Welcome to Mooseport

2004

Comedy

as Avery Hightower Debate Moderator (uncredited)

5.1(173)

0.8

Intolerable Cruelty

2003

Comedy • Crime • Romance

as Rex Rexroth

5.9(1,522)

1.9

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion

2003

Documentary • History

as Narrator

5(2)

0.1

The Louisiana Purchase

2003

Documentary • History

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

Russia, Land of the Tsars

2003

Documentary • History • TV Movie

as Narrator

7(1)

0.1

Stalin: Man of Steel

2003

Documentary • History

as Narrator (voice)

0(0)

0.2

The Samurai

2003

Documentary

as self (voice)

0(0)

0.1

The Emperor's Club

2002

Drama

as Headmaster Woodbridge

7.1(388)

1.3

Dinosaur Secrets Revealed

2002

Documentary

as Narrator (voice)

7(1)

0.1

The World Trade Center -Rise and Fall of an American Icon

2002

Documentary

as Narrator

7(2)

0.1

It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')

2002

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.2

Antarctica: A Frozen History

2002

Documentary • History

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

In Search of Christmas

2001

Documentary • History • TV Movie

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

The Cat's Meow

2001

Crime • Drama • History • Mystery • Thriller

as W. R. Hearst

5.8(116)

0.6

Down

2001

Action • Horror • Mystery • Thriller

as Milligan

5.1(174)

1.8

James Dean

2001

Drama • TV Movie

as Raymond Massey

6.8(107)

0.7

The Face: Jesus in Art

2001

Documentary

as Narrator (voice)

0(0)

0.2

Double Take

2001

Action • Adventure • Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Charles Allsworth

5.6(104)

1.2

Vendetta

1999

Drama • TV Movie

as D.A. Luzenberg

6.3(16)

0.9

Norman Rockwell: Painting America

1999

Documentary

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

Niagara: A History of the Falls

1999

Documentary • History • TV Movie

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

Walking Across Egypt

1999

Comedy • Drama • Family

as Reverend Vernon

4.9(15)

0.2

Saint Maybe

1998

Drama • Family • TV Movie

as Doug Bedloe

6.2(10)

0.5

Better Living

1998

Comedy

as Jack

1.5(2)

0.2

Critical Care

1997

Comedy • Drama

as Robert Payne

6.4(40)

0.5

What Love Sees

1996

Drama • Fantasy • Romance • TV Movie

as Morton Treadway

3.5(1)

0.3

A Season in Purgatory

1996

Crime • Drama • TV Movie

as Dr. Shugrue

6(1)

0.3

Soul of the Game

1996

Drama • History • TV Movie

as Branch Rickey

4.9(8)

0.4

Nixon

1995

Drama • History

as Nelson Rockefeller

6.9(374)

1.7

The Face on the Milk Carton

1995

Drama • TV Movie

as Frank Jessmon

6.3(28)

0.5

Here Come the Munsters

1995

Comedy • Family • Horror • TV Movie

as Herman Munster

5.2(22)

0.5

Ri¢hie Ri¢h

1994

Comedy • Family

as Richard Rich

5.9(2,298)

3.8

Don't Drink the Water

1994

Comedy • TV Movie

as Mr. Kilroy

5.5(82)

0.6

Foreign Student

1994

Drama • Romance

as Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore

4.5(4)

0.3

A Foreign Field

1993

Comedy • Romance • TV Movie • War

as Ralph

0(0)

0.3

My Boyfriend's Back

1993

Comedy • Horror • Romance

as Mr. Dingle

5.7(86)

0.5

Born Yesterday

1993

Comedy • Romance

as Ed Deverey

5.3(89)

0.6

Hero

1992

Comedy • Drama

as Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide

6.3(504)

Fire in the Dark

1991

Drama • TV Movie

as Robert

0(0)

0.3

Sweet Poison

1991

TV Movie • Thriller

as Henry

4.8(4)

0.5

Night of 100 Stars III

1990

Comedy • Music • TV Movie

as Self

4(2)

0.7

So Proudly We Hail

1990

Drama • TV Movie

as James Wagner

0(0)

0.5

Big Business

1988

Comedy

as Graham Sherbourne

6.3(277)

1.1

Overboard

1987

Comedy • Romance

as Grant Stayton III

6.8(876)

The Lost Boys

1987

Comedy • Drama • Horror • Romance • Thriller

as Max

7.1(2,124)

4.6

Murrow

1986

Drama • TV Movie

as Fred Friendly

5(3)

0.3

Compromising Positions

1985

Comedy • Mystery

as Bob Singer

5.5(16)

0.4

The Man with One Red Shoe

1985

Action • Comedy

as Brown

5.7(274)

1.4

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1985

Comedy • Fantasy • Romance

as Henry

7.4(1,066)

1.4

Mrs. Soffel

1984

Drama • Romance

as Warden Peter Soffel

6.1(52)

0.8

Memorial Day

1983

Drama • TV Movie • War

as Ned Larwin

6.2(4)

0.8

Annie

1982

Comedy • Drama • Family

as FDR

6.5(720)

3.3

Death Valley

1982

Crime • Horror • Thriller

as Paul Stanton

5.2(45)

A Little Sex

1982

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Tommy

3.4(5)

0.5

The Gift of Life

1982

Drama • TV Movie

as Dr. Quinn

0(0)

0.4

The Electric Grandmother

1982

Family • Science Fiction • TV Movie

as Father

6.8(9)

0.3

Reds

1981

Drama • History • Romance

as Max Eastman

6.9(338)

1.6

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

1981

War

as The Stranger

0(0)

0.2

Harry's War

1981

Comedy • Drama

as Harry Johnson

5.2(4)

0.2

O Youth and Beauty!

1979

Drama • TV Movie

as Kip Lawton

10(1)

0.3

Freedom Road

1979

Drama

as Stephen Holmes

4.8(6)

0.3

The Sorrows of Gin

1979

Drama • TV Movie

as Kip Lawton

10(1)

0.3

Portrait of a Stripper

1979

Drama • TV Movie

as Frank Andrews

2.5(2)

0.3

The North Avenue Irregulars

1979

Action • Comedy • Crime • Family

as Michael Hill

6.3(15)

0.3

Take Down

1979

Comedy • Drama

as Ed Branish

3.7(3)

0.2

Brass Target

1978

Action

as Col. Walter Gilchrist

5.6(35)

0.5

The Betsy

1978

Drama • Romance

as Dan Weyman

4.6(25)

0.7

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

1978

Drama • TV Movie

as Lou Gehrig

9(1)

0.2

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

1977

Drama • TV Movie

as Franklin D. Roosevelt

5.1(5)

0.2

Valley Forge

1975

Drama • History • TV Movie • War

0(0)

0.3

The Great Waldo Pepper

1975

Adventure • Drama

as Ezra Stiles

6.4(84)

0.7

The Great Gatsby

1974

Drama • Romance

as Klipspringer

6.3(483)

3.9

The Day of the Dolphin

1973

Adventure • Drama • Science Fiction • Thriller

as Mike

5.8(49)

0.5

The Paper Chase

1973

Drama

as Thomas Craig Anderson

6.8(108)

0.6

Lady Liberty

1971

Comedy

as Policeman (uncredited)

5.5(21)

0.4