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. Hermann died from brain cancer, Wednesday, December 31, 2014, in a hospital in New York City.
Series | Wonder Woman | Senator Warren | 2025 |
Series | History's Lost & Found | 2025 | |
Series | Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life | Richard Gilmore (archive sound) (uncredited) | 2016-11-25 |
Movie | Coach of the Year | Bill Ford | 2016-11-03 |
Series | The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | Franklin Roosevelt (voice) | 2014-09-14 |
Movie | The Town that Dreaded Sundown | Reverend Cartwright | 2014-10-16 |
Movie | The Wolf of Wall Street | Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice) | 2013-12-25 |
Movie | Are You Here | Dr. Vincent | 2013-09-07 |
Movie | Christmas Oranges | Mr. Crampton | 2012-06-01 |
Movie | Treasure Buddies | Philip Wellington | 2012-01-31 |
Series | Perception | Jack Pierce | 2012-07-09 |
Movie | Price Check | Jack Bennington | 2012-11-16 |
Movie | Heaven's Door | Nate Christensen | 2012-11-27 |
Movie | Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star | Jeremiah Larson | 2011-09-09 |
Movie | Son of Morning | Thomas | 2011-02-28 |
Movie | Wonder Woman | Senator Warren | 2011-11-07 |
Movie | The Christmas Pageant | Garrett Clark | 2011-12-11 |
Movie | A Christmas Wish | Les McCallum | 2011-11-20 |
Movie | Redemption: For Robbing the Dead | Governor Dawson | 2011-10-16 |
Series | Better With You | Judge | 2010-09-22 |
Series | The Good Wife | Lionel Deerfield | 2009-09-22 |
Movie | Ring Christmas Bells | Self | 2009-09-01 |
Movie | Morristown: Where America Survived | Narrator | 2009-03-28 |
Movie | Hatching Pete | The Principal | 2009-04-24 |
Series | Drop Dead Diva | Reverend Phillips | 2009-07-12 |
Movie | The Six Wives of Henry Lefay | John Goodenough | 2009-06-18 |
Movie | The Skeptic | Shepard | 2009-05-01 |
Movie | Banned from the Bible II | Narrator | 2007-04-08 |
Movie | I Think I Love My Wife | Mr. Landis | 2007-03-07 |
Series | The States | 2007-04-21 | |
Series | The Revolution | 2007-07-04 | |
Movie | Sherman's March | Narrator | 2007-04-22 |
Movie | Columbus The Lost Voyage | Narrator | 2007-10-08 |
Movie | Andrew Jackson | Narrator | 2007-11-18 |
Movie | Titanic's Achilles Heel | Narrator | 2007-06-17 |
Movie | Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran | Narrator | 2006-03-02 |
Series | The Ten Commandments | Narrator | 2006-04-10 |
Movie | Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces | Narrator (voice) | 2006-02-26 |
Movie | Relative Strangers | Doug Clayton | 2006-05-01 |
Movie | Factory Girl | James Townsend | 2006-12-29 |
Movie | Witness to 'Reds' | Self | 2006-10-17 |
Movie | Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2006-11-23 |
Series | 30 Rock | Walter | 2006-10-11 |
Movie | Wedding Daze | Lyle | 2006-09-09 |
Series | American Dad! | Councilman (voice) | 2005-02-06 |
Movie | The French Revolution | Narrator | 2005-01-17 |
Series | French Revolution | Narrator | 2005-01-17 |
Series | Grey's Anatomy | Norman Shales | 2005-03-27 |
Series | The Presidents | Narrator | 2005-01-18 |
Movie | FDR: A Presidency Revealed | Narrator | 2005-04-17 |
Movie | Bible Battles | Narrator (voice) | 2005-12-21 |
Movie | The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy | Narrator | 2005-11-07 |
Movie | Ape to Man | Narrator | 2005-12-27 |
Series | How I Met Your Mother | Reverend Lowell | 2005-09-19 |
Movie | Isaac's Storm | Narrator | 2004-08-07 |
Movie | Welcome to Mooseport | Debate Moderator | 2004-02-24 |
Movie | Bereft | Lloyd | 2004-09-13 |
Movie | First Invasion: The War of 1812 | Narrator | 2004-09-12 |
Movie | The Aviator | Joseph Breen | 2004-12-17 |
Series | Tom Goes to the Mayor | Benjamin Kaplan (voice) | 2004-11-14 |
Movie | The Samurai | self (voice) | 2003-01-01 |
Movie | Stalin: Man of Steel | Narrator (voice) | 2003-01-01 |
Movie | Intolerable Cruelty | Rex Rexroth | 2003-09-02 |
Movie | Russia, Land of the Tsars | Narrator | 2003-02-01 |
Movie | Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion | Narrator | 2003-05-27 |
Series | Russia, Land of the Tsars | 2003-05-26 | |
Movie | Antarctica: A Frozen History | Narrator | 2002-04-15 |
Movie | It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow') | Self | 2002-08-20 |
Movie | The World Trade Center -Rise and Fall of an American Icon | Narrator | 2002-09-02 |
Movie | The Emperor's Club | Headmaster Woodbridge | 2002-11-22 |
Movie | Dinosaur Secrets Revealed | Narrator (voice) | 2002-10-21 |
Series | Rise and Fall of the Spartans | Narrator (voice) | 2002-09-30 |
Movie | The Face: Jesus in Art | Narrator (voice) | 2001-04-15 |
Movie | Double Take | Charles Allsworth | 2001-01-12 |
Movie | James Dean | Raymond Massey | 2001-08-04 |
Movie | In Search of Christmas | Narrator | 2001-12-01 |
Movie | The Cat's Meow | W. R. Hearst | 2001-10-08 |
Series | Crossing Jordan | Thomas Malden | 2001-09-24 |
Movie | Down | Milligan | 2001-09-06 |
Series | Gilmore Girls | Richard Gilmore | 2000-10-05 |
Series | Founding Fathers | Narrator | 2000-11-27 |
Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Mr. Vogel | 2000-10-06 |
Movie | Vendetta | D.A. Luzenberg | 1999-09-12 |
Movie | Niagara: A History of the Falls | Narrator | 1999-01-31 |
Movie | Walking Across Egypt | Reverend Vernon | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | Norman Rockwell: Painting America | Narrator | 1999-05-02 |
Series | Atomic Train | The President | 1999-05-16 |
Movie | Better Living | Jack | 1998-11-02 |
Series | Frank Lloyd Wright | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 1998-11-10 |
Movie | Saint Maybe | Doug Bedloe | 1998-11-22 |
Series | The Practice | Anderson Pearson | 1997-03-04 |
Series | Liberty! | Narrator | 1997-11-23 |
Movie | Critical Care | Robert Payne | 1997-10-31 |
Movie | Soul of the Game | Branch Rickey | 1996-04-20 |
Movie | A Season in Purgatory | Dr. Shugrue | 1996-05-05 |
Series | Pandora's Clock | President | 1996-11-10 |
Movie | What Love Sees | Morton Treadway | 1996-09-22 |
Series | Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain | Thomas Jefferson (voice) | 1995-04-04 |
Movie | Here Come the Munsters | Herman Munster | 1995-01-11 |
Movie | Nixon | Nelson Rockefeller | 1995-12-22 |
Movie | The Face on the Milk Carton | Frank Jessmon | 1995-05-24 |
Movie | Foreign Student | Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore | 1994-04-20 |
Movie | Don't Drink the Water | Mr. Kilroy | 1994-12-18 |
Movie | Ri¢hie Ri¢h | Richard Rich | 1994-12-19 |
Series | Homicide: Life on the Street | Unknown | 1993-01-31 |
Movie | A Foreign Field | Ralph | 1993-09-10 |
Movie | Born Yesterday | Ed Deverey | 1993-03-26 |
Movie | My Boyfriend's Back | Mr. Dingle | 1993-08-06 |
Movie | Hero | Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide | 1992-10-02 |
Movie | Fire in the Dark | Robert | 1991-07-01 |
Movie | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 |
Series | Law & Order | Frederic Matson | 1990-09-13 |
Movie | So Proudly We Hail | James Wagner | 1990-01-23 |
Series | Wings | Y.M. Burg | 1990-04-19 |
Series | Screen One | Ralph | 1989-09-10 |
Movie | Big Business | Graham Sherbourne | 1988-06-10 |
Movie | Overboard | Grant Stayton III | 1987-12-16 |
Series | The Lawrenceville Stories | Head Master | 1987-01-26 |
Movie | The Lost Boys | Max | 1987-07-31 |
Movie | Murrow | Fred Friendly | 1986-01-19 |
Movie | Compromising Positions | Bob Singer | 1985-08-30 |
Series | The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Dr. Maxwell Stoddard / Litton | 1985-09-29 |
Movie | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Henry | 1985-03-01 |
Movie | The Man with One Red Shoe | Brown | 1985-07-18 |
Movie | Mrs. Soffel | Warden Peter Soffel | 1984-12-26 |
Movie | Memorial Day | Ned Larwin | 1983-11-23 |
Movie | A Little Sex | Tommy | 1982-04-02 |
Movie | The Gift of Life | Dr. Quinn | 1982-03-15 |
Movie | The Electric Grandmother | Father | 1982-01-17 |
Movie | Death Valley | Paul Stanton | 1982-05-07 |
Movie | Annie | FDR | 1982-05-21 |
Series | St. Elsewhere | Unknown | 1982-10-26 |
Series | Nature | Narrator (voice) | 1982-10-10 |
Movie | Harry's War | Harry Johnson | 1981-03-06 |
Movie | The Private History of a Campaign That Failed | The Stranger | 1981-04-06 |
Movie | Reds | Max Eastman | 1981-12-25 |
Movie | The North Avenue Irregulars | Michael Hill | 1979-02-09 |
Movie | Take Down | Ed Branish | 1979-01-13 |
Movie | Portrait of a Stripper | Frank Andrews | 1979-10-02 |
Movie | The Sorrows of Gin | Kip Lawton | 1979-10-24 |
Movie | Freedom Road | Stephen Holmes | 1979-10-29 |
Movie | O Youth and Beauty! | Kip Lawton | 1979-10-31 |
Movie | A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story | Lou Gehrig | 1978-01-15 |
Movie | The Betsy | Dan Weyman | 1978-02-02 |
Movie | Brass Target | Col. Walter Gilchrist | 1978-12-22 |
Movie | Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1977-03-13 |
Series | Eleanor and Franklin | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Age 20-50 | 1976-01-11 |
Movie | The Great Waldo Pepper | Ezra Stiles | 1975-03-13 |
Series | Beacon Hill | 1975-08-25 | |
Movie | Valley Forge | 1975-12-03 | |
Movie | The Great Gatsby | Klipspringer | 1974-03-27 |
Movie | The Day of the Dolphin | Mike | 1973-12-19 |
Movie | The Paper Chase | Thomas Craig Anderson | 1973-10-16 |
Series | M*A*S*H | Unknown | 1972-09-17 |
Series | Great Performances | Self | 1971-01-28 |
Movie | Lady Liberty | Policeman (uncredited) | 1971-12-22 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Doug Bedloe | 1951-12-24 |