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Edward Herrmann

Born: 1943-07-21

From: Washington, District of Columbia, USA

About: 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.

Film credits:

The Lost Boys

Max

James Dean

Raymond Massey

Don't Drink the Water

Mr. Kilroy

The Man with One Red Shoe

Brown

Overboard

Grant Stayton III

Ri¢hie Ri¢h

Richard Rich

My Boyfriend's Back

Mr. Dingle

Intolerable Cruelty

Rex Rexroth

The Skeptic

Shepard

Wedding Daze

Lyle

Mrs. Soffel

Warden Peter Soffel

Factory Girl

James Townsend

Big Business

Graham Sherbourne

The Cat's Meow

W. R. Hearst

I Think I Love My Wife

Mr. Landis

Banned from the Bible II

Narrator

The Paper Chase

Thomas Craig Anderson

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

John Goodenough

Ape to Man

Narrator

Annie

FDR

Bereft

Lloyd

Isaac's Storm

Narrator

The North Avenue Irregulars

Michael Hill

Reds

Max Eastman

Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower

Self - Narrator (voice)

Down

Milligan

The Great Waldo Pepper

Ezra Stiles

Brass Target

Col. Walter Gilchrist

Death Valley

Paul Stanton

Soul of the Game

Branch Rickey

Saint Maybe

Doug Bedloe

Foreign Student

Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore

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

Self

The Electric Grandmother

Father

Harry's War

Harry Johnson

Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces

Narrator (voice)

Treasure Buddies

Philip Wellington

The Face on the Milk Carton

Frank Jessmon

Compromising Positions

Bob Singer

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion

Narrator

Columbus The Lost Voyage

Narrator

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

Lou Gehrig

The French Revolution

Narrator

Portrait of a Stripper

Frank Andrews

The Face: Jesus in Art

Narrator (voice)

Lady Liberty

Policeman (uncredited)

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

The Stranger

The Emperor's Club

Headmaster Woodbridge

The Day of the Dolphin

Mike

The Betsy

Dan Weyman

Are You Here

Dr. Vincent

Niagara: A History of the Falls

Narrator

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Henry

Night of 100 Stars III

Self

So Proudly We Hail

James Wagner

The Town that Dreaded Sundown

Reverend Cartwright

Here Come the Munsters

Herman Munster

Christmas Oranges

Mr. Crampton

The Great Gatsby

Klipspringer

Better Living

Jack

Ring Christmas Bells

Self

Critical Care

Robert Payne

Fire in the Dark

Robert

In Search of Christmas

Narrator

Sherman's March

Narrator

Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran

Narrator

Russia, Land of the Tsars

Narrator

The Gift of Life

Dr. Quinn

A Christmas Wish

Les McCallum

The Wolf of Wall Street

Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)

A Little Sex

Tommy

Take Down

Ed Branish

The Aviator

Joseph Breen

The Sorrows of Gin

Kip Lawton

Andrew Jackson

Narrator

O Youth and Beauty!

Kip Lawton

Nixon

Nelson Rockefeller

Murrow

Fred Friendly

Welcome to Mooseport

Avery Hightower Debate Moderator (uncredited)

Memorial Day

Ned Larwin

First Invasion: The War of 1812

Narrator

Freedom Road

Stephen Holmes

Morristown: Where America Survived

Narrator

Double Take

Charles Allsworth

Price Check

Jack Bennington

Heaven's Door

Nate Christensen

A Foreign Field

Ralph

What Love Sees

Morton Treadway

The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy

Narrator

Hero

Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide

Vendetta

D.A. Luzenberg

Coach of the Year

Bill Ford

Walking Across Egypt

Reverend Vernon

The Christmas Pageant

Garrett Clark

A Season in Purgatory

Dr. Shugrue

Relative Strangers

Doug Clayton

Valley Forge

Bible Battles

Narrator (voice)

Hatching Pete

The Principal

Son of Morning

Thomas

Titanic's Achilles Heel

Narrator

Stalin: Man of Steel

Narrator (voice)

Born Yesterday

Ed Deverey

The Samurai

self (voice)

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star

Jeremiah Larson

Redemption: For Robbing the Dead

Governor Dawson

Norman Rockwell: Painting America

Narrator

Antarctica: A Frozen History

Narrator

Dinosaur Secrets Revealed

Narrator (voice)

FDR: A Presidency Revealed

Narrator

Witness to 'Reds'

Self

Sweet Poison

Henry

The Louisiana Purchase

Narrator

Dear Liar

George Bernard Shaw

The Presidents

Narrator