Personal Info
Birthday
July 21, 1943
Place of Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Known For
Acting
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.
Acting Filmography (158)
7.3
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
TV Series2016
No Backdrop
0.0
Coach of the Year
Movie2016
7.7
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
TV Series2015
5.8
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
Movie2014
7.7
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
TV Series2014
8.0
The Wolf of Wall Street
Movie2013
5.1
Are You Here
Movie2013
No Backdrop
5.6
Heaven's Door
Movie2012
5.3
Price Check
Movie2012
7.1
Perception
TV Series2012
7.5
Christmas Oranges
Movie2012
6.1
Treasure Buddies
Movie2012
5.9
The Christmas Pageant
Movie2011
5.9
A Christmas Wish
Movie2011
4.5
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
Movie2011
4.2
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
Movie2011
3.0
Son of Morning
Movie2011
7.4
Harry's Law
TV Series2011
6.5
Better With You
TV Series2010
7.6
The Good Wife
TV Series2009
0.0
Ring Christmas Bells
Movie2009
7.7
Drop Dead Diva
TV Series2009
5.3
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
Movie2009
5.3
The Skeptic
Movie2009
5.6
Hatching Pete
Movie2009
No Backdrop
0.0
Morristown: Where America Survived
Movie2009
No Backdrop
10.0
Andrew Jackson
Movie2007
7.0
Columbus The Lost Voyage
Movie2007
9.4
The Revolution
TV Series2007
No Backdrop
10.0
Titanic's Achilles Heel
Movie2007
0.0
Sherman's March
Movie2007
No Backdrop
0.0
The States
TV Series2007
No Backdrop
0.0
Banned from the Bible II
Movie2007
5.3
I Think I Love My Wife
Movie2007
6.0
Factory Girl
Movie2006
9.0
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower
Movie2006
No Backdrop
6.0
Witness to 'Reds'
Movie2006
7.5
30 Rock
TV Series2006
5.6
Wedding Daze
Movie2006
5.3
Relative Strangers
Movie2006
5.7
The Ten Commandments
TV Series2006
No Backdrop
0.0
Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran
Movie2006
8.5
Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces
Movie2006
No Backdrop
7.0
Ape to Man
Movie2005
No Backdrop
8.0
Bible Battles
Movie2005
No Backdrop
8.3
The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy
Movie2005
8.1
How I Met Your Mother
TV Series2005
8.2
Grey's Anatomy
TV Series2005
7.0
American Dad!
TV Series2005
6.5
The Presidents
TV Series2005
No Backdrop
5.8
The French Revolution
Movie2005
0.0
French Revolution
TV Series2005
7.2
The Aviator
Movie2004
6.9
Tom Goes to the Mayor
TV Series2004
No Backdrop
5.4
Bereft
Movie2004
10.0
First Invasion: The War of 1812
Movie2004
No Backdrop
6.0
Isaac's Storm
Movie2004
5.1
Welcome to Mooseport
Movie2004
6.0
Intolerable Cruelty
Movie2003
No Backdrop
6.0
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Movie2003
No Backdrop
10.0
Russia, Land of the Tsars
TV Series2003
No Backdrop
7.0
The Louisiana Purchase
Movie2003
No Backdrop
7.5
Russia, Land of the Tsars
Movie2003
No Backdrop
0.0
Stalin: Man of Steel
Movie2003
7.1
The Emperor's Club
Movie2002
No Backdrop
8.0
Dinosaur Secrets Revealed
Movie2002
8.5
Rise and Fall of the Spartans
TV Series2002
No Backdrop
0.0
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
Movie2002
8.0
Antarctica: A Frozen History
Movie2002
No Backdrop
0.0
In Search of Christmas
Movie2001
5.8
The Cat's Meow
Movie2001
7.2
Crossing Jordan
TV Series2001
5.0
Down
Movie2001
6.8
James Dean
Movie2001
No Backdrop
7.0
The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution
TV Series2001
5.5
Double Take
Movie2001
8.0
Founding Fathers
TV Series2000
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV Series2000
7.9
Gilmore Girls
TV Series2000
4.9
Walking Across Egypt
Movie1999
No Backdrop
7.7
The Korean War: Fire and Ice
TV Series1999
6.0
Vendetta
Movie1999
4.9
Atomic Train
TV Series1999
No Backdrop
0.0
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
Movie1999
7.0
Niagara: A History of the Falls
Movie1999
6.6
Saint Maybe
Movie1998
7.4
Frank Lloyd Wright
TV Series1998
3.8
Better Living
Movie1998
7.8
Liberty!
TV Series1997
6.3
Critical Care
Movie1997
7.7
The Practice
TV Series1997
5.5
Pandora's Clock
TV Series1996
No Backdrop
7.8
What Love Sees
Movie1996
No Backdrop
7.0
A Season in Purgatory
Movie1996
No Backdrop
0.0
A Season in Purgatory
TV Series1996
4.9
Soul of the Game
Movie1996
6.8
Nixon
Movie1995
6.5
The Face on the Milk Carton
Movie1995
No Backdrop
0.0
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
TV Series1995
5.2
Here Come the Munsters
Movie1995
5.9
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Movie1994
5.6
Don't Drink the Water
Movie1994
4.1
Foreign Student
Movie1994
7.0
A Foreign Field
Movie1993
5.7
My Boyfriend's Back
Movie1993
5.3
Born Yesterday
Movie1993
8.1
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV Series1993
6.3
Hero
Movie1992
9.0
Fire in the Dark
Movie1991
5.8
Sweet Poison
Movie1991
7.3
Law & Order
TV Series1990
No Backdrop
4.0
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie1990
6.8
Wings
TV Series1990
10.0
So Proudly We Hail
Movie1990
7.2
Screen One
TV Series1989
7.5
Hothouse
TV Series1988
6.4
Big Business
Movie1988
6.8
Overboard
Movie1987
7.1
The Lost Boys
Movie1987
No Backdrop
5.0
The Lawrenceville Stories
TV Series1987
No Backdrop
5.5
Murrow
Movie1986
7.2
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV Series1985
5.3
Compromising Positions
Movie1985
5.7
The Man with One Red Shoe
Movie1985
7.4
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Movie1985
6.0
Mrs. Soffel
Movie1984
5.7
St. Elsewhere
TV Series1982
7.9
Nature
TV Series1982
6.6
Annie
Movie1982
5.1
Death Valley
Movie1982
3.6
A Little Sex
Movie1982
No Backdrop
0.0
The Gift of Life
Movie1982
7.0
The Electric Grandmother
Movie1982
6.6
American Playhouse
TV Series1982
6.9
Reds
Movie1981
No Backdrop
0.0
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Movie1981
No Backdrop
6.2
Harry's War
Movie1981
No Backdrop
9.0
O Youth and Beauty!
Movie1979
5.2
Freedom Road
Movie1979
No Backdrop
10.0
The Sorrows of Gin
Movie1979
3.5
Portrait of a Stripper
Movie1979
No Backdrop
4.4
Take Down
Movie1979
6.5
The North Avenue Irregulars
Movie1979
5.4
Brass Target
Movie1978
4.8
The Betsy
Movie1978
No Backdrop
9.5
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Movie1978
3.8
Eleanor and Franklin
TV Series1976
No Backdrop
7.0
Valley Forge
Movie1975
No Backdrop
7.0
Beacon Hill
TV Series1975
6.5
The Great Waldo Pepper
Movie1975
6.3
The Great Gatsby
Movie1974
5.8
The Day of the Dolphin
Movie1973
6.8
The Paper Chase
Movie1973
7.9
M*A*S*H
TV Series1972
5.5
Lady Liberty
Movie1971
6.1
Great Performances
TV Series1971
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV Series1951
4.9
Wonder Woman
TV SeriesN/A