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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

Gilmore Girls

2000
as Richard Gilmore

Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

2013
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pandora's Clock

1996
as President

Pandora's Clock

1996
as President

The Practice

1997
as Anderson Pearson

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