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Edward Herrmann

Edward Kirk Herrmann gained fame playing a young FDR on TV but was known more recently as Richard Gilmore of Gilmore Girls. Herrmann’s resonant voice made him a favorite choice as narrator of documentaries and specials and for voiceover work.


Aliases
  • Ed Herrmann
  • Edward Herman
English

The Wolf of Wall Street

2013
as Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)

Gilmore Girls

2000
as Richard Gilmore

The Aviator

2004
as Joseph Breen

Ri¢hie Ri¢h

1994
as Richard Rich

Annie

1982
as FDR

The Great Waldo Pepper

1975
as Ezra Stiles

Born Yesterday

1993
as Ed Devery

Bereft

2004
as Lloyd

The Great Gatsby

1974
as Klipspringer

My Boyfriend's Back

1993
as Mr. Dingle

Hero

1992
as Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

2009
as John Goodenough

Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

2013
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom Road

1979
as Stephen Holmes

The Town that Dreaded Sundown

2014
as Reverend Cartwright

Double Take

2001
as Charles Allsworth

Critical Care

1997
as Robert Payne

Foreign Student

1994
as Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore

Hatching Pete

2009
as The Principal

The Christmas Pageant

2011
as Garrett Clark

Brass Target

1978
as Col. Walter Gilchrist

Murrow

1986
as Fred Friendly

Down

2001
as Milligan

Big Business

1988
as Graham Sherbourne

The Paper Chase

1973
as Thomas Craig Anderson

The Skeptic

2009
as Shepard

Price Check

2012
as Jack Bennington

Intolerable Cruelty

2003
as Rex Rexroth

Overboard

1987
as Grant Stayton III

Relative Strangers

2006
as Doug Clayton

Death Valley

1982
as Paul Stanton

James Dean

2001
as Raymond Massey

What Love Sees

1996
as Morton Treadway

Are You Here

2013
as Dr. Vincent

Christmas Oranges

2012
as Mr. Crampton

Coach of the Year

2015
as Bill Ford

Lady Liberty

1971
as uncredited

Take Down

1979
as Ed Branish

Vendetta

1999
as D.A. Luzenberg

Here Come the Munsters

1995
as Herman Munster

Pandora's Clock

1996
as President

Factory Girl

2006
as James Townsend

How the Earth Was Made

2007
as Self - Narrator

The Gift of Life

1982
as Dr. Quinn

Pandora's Clock

1996
as President

Heaven's Door

2012
as Nate Christensen

The Betsy

1978
as Dan Weyman

Nixon

1995
as Nelson Rockefeller

The Sorrows of Gin

1979
as Kip Lawton

The Practice

1997
as Anderson Pearson

Treasure Buddies

2012
as Philip Wellington

Walking Across Egypt

1999
as Reverend Vernon

Harry's War

1981
as Harry Johnson

Don't Drink the Water

1994
as Mr. Kilroy

The Emperor's Club

2002
as Headmaster Woodbridge

Reds

1981
as Max Eastman

Soul of the Game

1996
as Branch Rickey

Wedding Daze

2006
as Lyle

O Youth and Beauty!

1979
as Kip Lawton

Saint Maybe

1998
as Doug Bedloe

The Cat's Meow

2001
as W. R. Hearst

Mrs. Soffel

1984
as Warden Peter Soffel

A Little Sex

1982
as Tommy

A Christmas Wish

2011
as Les McCallum

Director

Episode Gilmore Girls
You've Been Gilmored
2006
Episode Gilmore Girls
Friday Night's Alright For Fighting
2006

Guest Star

Episode History Channel Documentaries
The Samurai
2003
Episode NOVA
Surviving AIDS
1999
Episode The Good Wife
Cleaning House
2010
Episode History Channel Documentaries
Story of the Fighting I: The USS Intrepid
1995
Episode Crossing Jordan
Pandora's Trunk (2)
2004
Episode The Good Wife
Alienation of Affection
2012
Episode Hallmark Countdown to Christmas
A Christmas Wish
2011
Episode Wonder Woman (2011)
Pilot
2011
Episode Law & Order
Empire
1999
Episode History Channel Documentaries
The French Revolution
2005
Episode St. Elsewhere
Time Heals (2)
1986
Episode M*A*S*H
Heal Thyself
1980
Episode The Revolution
Boston, Bloody Boston
2006
Episode The Revolution
Rebellion to Revolution
2006
Episode Homicide: Life on the Street
M.E., Myself and I
1996
Episode The Revolution
Declaring Independence
2006
Episode Grey's Anatomy
Let the Truth Sting
2007
Episode The Revolution
American Crisis
2006
Episode Biography
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer
1997
Episode Grey's Anatomy
The Heart of the Matter
2007
Episode Wings
So Long, Frank Lloyd Wrong
1995
Episode Nature
Holy Cow
2004
Episode CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
In Vino Veritas (1)
2013
Episode Grey's Anatomy
Haunt You Every Day
2007
Episode Law & Order
Progeny
1995
Episode How I Met Your Mother
Knight Vision
2013
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
The Mole
1987
Episode The Good Wife
And the Law Won
2012
Episode History Channel Documentaries
Rumrunners, Moonshiners and Bootleggers
2002
Episode The Good Wife
The Next Day
2013
Episode History Channel Documentaries
Banned From the Bible II
2007
Episode 30 Rock
Episode 210
2008
Episode American Masters
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
1999
Episode Modern Marvels
4x4s
2003
Episode Black Box
Sweet Little Lies
2014
Episode NOVA
The Beast of Loch Ness
1999
Episode St. Elsewhere
Where There's Hope, There's Crosby
1986
Episode NOVA
Submarines, Secrets & Spies
1999
Episode St. Elsewhere
Time Heals (1)
1986