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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
Filmography

Coach of the Year

2015
as Bill Ford

The Town that Dreaded Sundown

2014
as Reverend Cartwright

The Wolf of Wall Street

2013
as Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)

Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

2013
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Are You Here

2013
as Dr. Vincent

Heaven's Door

2012
as Nate Christensen

Price Check

2012
as Jack Bennington

Christmas Oranges

2012
as Mr. Crampton

Treasure Buddies

2012
as Philip Wellington

Redemption: For Robbing the Dead

2011
as Governor Dawson

A Christmas Wish

2011
as Les McCallum

The Christmas Pageant

2011
as Garrett Clark

The Skeptic

2009
as Shepard

Hatching Pete

2009
as The Principal

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

2009
as John Goodenough

I Think I Love My Wife

2007
as Mr. Landis

Titanic's Achilles Heel

2007
as Narrator

How the Earth Was Made

2007
as Self - Narrator

Factory Girl

2006
as James Townsend

Wedding Daze

2006
as Lyle

Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces

2006
as Narrator

Relative Strangers

2006
as Doug Clayton

The French Revolution

2005
as Narrator

The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy

2005
as Narrator

The Aviator

2004
as Joseph Breen

Bereft

2004
as Lloyd

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion

2003
as Narrator

Intolerable Cruelty

2003
as Rex Rexroth

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

2002
as Narrator

The Emperor's Club

2002
as Headmaster Woodbridge

Double Take

2001
as Charles Allsworth

Down

2001
as Milligan

The Face: Jesus in Art

2001
as Narrator

The Cat's Meow

2001
as W. R. Hearst

James Dean

2001
as Raymond Massey

Gilmore Girls

2000
as Richard Gilmore

Ultimate Autos

1999
as Host

The Korean War: Fire and Ice

1999
as Narrator

Vendetta

1999
as D.A. Luzenberg

Walking Across Egypt

1999
as Reverend Vernon

Saint Maybe

1998
as Doug Bedloe

Better Living

1998
as Jack

The Practice

1997
as Anderson Pearson

Critical Care

1997
as Robert Payne

Soul of the Game

1996
as Branch Rickey

Pandora's Clock

1996
as President

What Love Sees

1996
as Morton Treadway

Pandora's Clock

1996
as President

Nixon

1995
as Nelson Rockefeller

The Face on the Milk Carton

1995
as Frank Jessmon

Here Come the Munsters

1995
as Herman Munster

Don't Drink the Water

1994
as Mr. Kilroy

Foreign Student

1994
as Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore

Ri¢hie Ri¢h

1994
as Richard Rich

Born Yesterday

1993
as Ed Devery

My Boyfriend's Back

1993
as Mr. Dingle

A Foreign Field

1993
as Ralph

Hero

1992
as Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide

Big Business

1988
as Graham Sherbourne

The Lost Boys

1987
as Max

Overboard

1987
as Grant Stayton III

Murrow

1986
as Fred Friendly

Compromising Positions

1985
as Bob Singer

The Man with One Red Shoe

1985
as Brown

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1985
as Henry

Mrs. Soffel

1984
as Warden Peter Soffel

Annie

1982
as FDR

The Electric Grandmother

1982
as Father

Death Valley

1982
as Paul Stanton

A Little Sex

1982
as Tommy

The Gift of Life

1982
as Dr. Quinn

Reds

1981
as Max Eastman

Harry's War

1981
as Harry Johnson

Freedom Road

1979
as Stephen Holmes

The North Avenue Irregulars

1979
as Michael Hill

O Youth and Beauty!

1979
as Kip Lawton

The Sorrows of Gin

1979
as Kip Lawton

Take Down

1979
as Ed Branish

Brass Target

1978
as Col. Walter Gilchrist

The Betsy

1978
as Dan Weyman

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

1978
as Lou Gehrig

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

1977
as Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Great Waldo Pepper

1975
as Ezra Stiles

The Great Gatsby

1974
as Klipspringer

The Paper Chase

1973
as Thomas Craig Anderson

The Day of the Dolphin

1973
as Mike

Lady Liberty

1971
as uncredited

Laughter in the Dark

1969

Fire in the Dark

as Robert

Director

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

Guest Star

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