Edward Herrmann
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 21, 1943
- Died
- Dec 31, 2014
- Place of birth
- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- Also known as
- Ed Hermann, Edward Herman, Edward Kirk Herrmann, اد هرمان, اِد هرمان
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 credits
How I Met Your Mother
Reverend Lowell
Grey's Anatomy
Norman Shales
Law & Order
Frederic Matson / Drew Seeley / Defense Attorney Mosbeck
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Mr. Vogel
American Dad!
Councilman (voice) / Old Man (voice)
Gilmore Girls
Richard Gilmore
The Good Wife
Lionel Deerfield
Great Performances
Self
30 Rock
Walter
M*A*S*H
Nature
Narrator (voice)
The Practice
Anderson Pearson
Crossing Jordan
Thomas Malden
Homicide: Life on the Street
Thomas Pandolfi
St. Elsewhere
Father Joseph McCabe
Wings
Y.M. Burg
American Playhouse
Alger Hiss / The Headmaster / Professor
Perception
Jack Pierce
Drop Dead Diva
Reverend Phillips
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Dr. Maxwell Stoddard / Litton
Harry's Law
Lester Babcock
Tom Goes to the Mayor
Benjamin Kaplan (voice)
Screen One
Ralph
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Richard Gilmore (archive sound) (uncredited)
Better With You
Judge
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Folsom / Doug Bedloe
The Ten Commandments
Narrator
The General Motors Playwrights Theater
Ben Cunningham
Liberty!
Narrator
Atomic Train
The President
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Franklin Roosevelt (voice)
Wonder Woman
Senator Warren
Hothouse
Woods
Beacon Hill
Richard Palmer
A Season in Purgatory
Dr. Shugrue
The Presidents
Narrator
Founding Fathers
Narrator
Eleanor and Franklin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Age 20-50
Pandora's Clock
President
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
Narrator (voice)
The Lawrenceville Stories
Headmaster
The States
Frank Lloyd Wright
Self - Narrator (voice)
Russia, Land of the Tsars
French Revolution
Narrator
The Revolution
The Korean War: Fire and Ice
Narrator
Rise and Fall of the Spartans
Narrator (voice)
The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution
Narrator
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Narrator
History's Lost & Found
Ultimate autos
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