
Edward Herrmann
Born July 21, 1943 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Aviator

The Lost Boys

Ri¢hie Ri¢h

Overboard

Are You Here

The Man with One Red Shoe

Intolerable Cruelty

The Emperor's Club

The Town that Dreaded Sundown

Hero

The Purple Rose of Cairo

The Great Gatsby

Annie

The Great Waldo Pepper

Wedding Daze

I Think I Love My Wife

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

Nixon

Welcome to Mooseport

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star

Treasure Buddies

Down

Reds

James Dean

The Cat's Meow

Night of 100 Stars III

Big Business

The Day of the Dolphin

Soul of the Game

Hatching Pete

Double Take

My Boyfriend's Back

Factory Girl

The Paper Chase

Brass Target

Relative Strangers

Born Yesterday

Don't Drink the Water

Son of Morning

Critical Care

The North Avenue Irregulars

Mrs. Soffel

Here Come the Munsters

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

A Christmas Wish
TV Shows

The Good Wife

Gilmore Girls

How I Met Your Mother

Great Performances

American Playhouse

The Practice

30 Rock

M*A*S*H

Crossing Jordan

St. Elsewhere

Homicide: Life on the Street

Wings

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Nature

Drop Dead Diva

Perception

Harry's Law

Tom Goes to the Mayor

Screen One

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

Better With You

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Liberty!

Atomic Train

A Season in Purgatory

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

The Ten Commandments

Unreleased
Wonder Woman

The Presidents

Pandora's Clock

Hothouse

Eleanor and Franklin

Beacon Hill

The States

The Lawrenceville Stories

Founding Fathers

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies

Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain

French Revolution

The Revolution

Frank Lloyd Wright

Russia, Land of the Tsars

Rise and Fall of the Spartans

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion

The Korean War: Fire and Ice

The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution
More Movies

Vendetta

So Proudly We Hail

The Betsy

Redemption: For Robbing the Dead

The Skeptic

Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran

The Face on the Milk Carton

A Little Sex

Lady Liberty

Andrew Jackson

Compromising Positions

Bereft

Valley Forge

Portrait of a Stripper

Fire in the Dark

Sweet Poison

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

What Love Sees

The Gift of Life

Coach of the Year

O Youth and Beauty!

Christmas Oranges

Stalin: Man of Steel

Walking Across Egypt

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

Columbus The Lost Voyage

Saint Maybe

The Sorrows of Gin

Freedom Road

Death Valley

Heaven's Door

Foreign Student

Murrow

Better Living

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion

In Search of Christmas

Harry's War

Price Check

The Christmas Pageant

A Foreign Field

Antarctica: A Frozen History

Niagara: A History of the Falls

Witness to 'Reds'

Norman Rockwell: Painting America

Take Down

The Electric Grandmother

Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower

Titanic's Achilles Heel

Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces

Bible Battles

Dinosaur Secrets Revealed

Banned from the Bible II

The French Revolution

Sherman's March

The Louisiana Purchase

Morristown: Where America Survived

Ring Christmas Bells

Russia, Land of the Tsars

Ape to Man

First Invasion: The War of 1812

The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy




