Edward Herrmann

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Biography

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.

Known For

The Wolf of Wall Street

Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)

Grey's Anatomy

Norman Shales

The Aviator

Joseph Breen

How I Met Your Mother

Reverend Lowell

Ri¢hie Ri¢h

Richard Rich

American Dad!

Councilman (voice)

American Dad!

Old Man (voice)

The Lost Boys

Max

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2016	Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life TV	Richard Gilmore (archive sound) (uncredited)
2016	Coach of the Year MOVIE	Bill Ford
2015	Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies TV	Narrator (voice)
2014	The Town that Dreaded Sundown MOVIE	Reverend Cartwright
2014	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History TV	Franklin Roosevelt (voice)
2013	The Wolf of Wall Street MOVIE	Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)
2013	Are You Here MOVIE	Dr. Vincent
2012	Heaven's Door MOVIE	Nate Christensen
2012	Price Check MOVIE	Jack Bennington
2012	Perception TV	Jack Pierce
2012	Christmas Oranges MOVIE	Mr. Crampton
2012	Treasure Buddies MOVIE	Philip Wellington
2011	The Christmas Pageant MOVIE	Garrett Clark
2011	A Christmas Wish MOVIE	Les McCallum
2011	Redemption: For Robbing the Dead MOVIE	Governor Dawson
2011	Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star MOVIE	Jeremiah Larson
2011	Wonder Woman MOVIE	Self
2011	Son of Morning MOVIE	Thomas
2011	Harry's Law TV	Lester Babcock
2010	Better With You TV	Judge
2009	The Good Wife TV	Lionel Deerfield
2009	Ring Christmas Bells MOVIE	Self
2009	Drop Dead Diva TV	Reverend Phillips
2009	The Six Wives of Henry Lefay MOVIE	John Goodenough
2009	The Skeptic MOVIE	Shepard
2009	Hatching Pete MOVIE	The Principal
2009	Morristown: Where America Survived MOVIE	Narrator
2007	Andrew Jackson MOVIE	Narrator
2007	Columbus The Lost Voyage MOVIE	Narrator
2007	The Revolution TV	Self
2007	Titanic's Achilles Heel MOVIE	Narrator
2007	Sherman's March MOVIE	Narrator
2007	The States TV	Self
2007	Banned from the Bible II MOVIE	Narrator
2007	I Think I Love My Wife MOVIE	Mr. Landis
2006	Factory Girl MOVIE	James Townsend
2006	Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower MOVIE	Self - Narrator (voice)
2006	Witness to 'Reds' MOVIE	Self
2006	30 Rock TV	Walter
2006	Wedding Daze MOVIE	Lyle
2006	Relative Strangers MOVIE	Doug Clayton
2006	The Ten Commandments TV	Narrator
2006	Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran MOVIE	Narrator
2006	Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2005	Ape to Man MOVIE	Narrator
2005	Bible Battles MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2005	The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy MOVIE	Narrator
2005	How I Met Your Mother TV	Reverend Lowell
2005	FDR: A Presidency Revealed MOVIE	Narrator
2005	Grey's Anatomy TV	Norman Shales
2005	American Dad! TV	Councilman (voice)
2005	American Dad! TV	Old Man (voice)
2005	The Presidents TV	Narrator
2005	The French Revolution MOVIE	Narrator
2005	French Revolution TV	Narrator
2004	The Aviator MOVIE	Joseph Breen
2004	Tom Goes to the Mayor TV	Benjamin Kaplan (voice)
2004	Bereft MOVIE	Lloyd
2004	First Invasion: The War of 1812 MOVIE	Narrator
2004	Isaac's Storm MOVIE	Narrator
2004	Welcome to Mooseport MOVIE	Avery Hightower Debate Moderator (uncredited)
2003	Intolerable Cruelty MOVIE	Rex Rexroth
2003	Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion MOVIE	Narrator
2003	Russia, Land of the Tsars TV	Self
2003	The Louisiana Purchase MOVIE	Narrator
2003	Russia, Land of the Tsars MOVIE	Narrator
2003	Stalin: Man of Steel MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2003	The Samurai MOVIE	self (voice)
2002	The Emperor's Club MOVIE	Headmaster Woodbridge
2002	Dinosaur Secrets Revealed MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2002	Rise and Fall of the Spartans TV	Narrator (voice)
2002	It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow') MOVIE	Self
2002	Antarctica: A Frozen History MOVIE	Narrator
2001	In Search of Christmas MOVIE	Narrator
2001	The Cat's Meow MOVIE	W. R. Hearst
2001	Crossing Jordan TV	Thomas Malden
2001	Down MOVIE	Milligan
2001	James Dean MOVIE	Raymond Massey
2001	The Face: Jesus in Art MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2001	Double Take MOVIE	Charles Allsworth
2000	Founding Fathers TV	Narrator
2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TV	Mr. Vogel
2000	Gilmore Girls TV	Richard Gilmore
1999	The Korean War: Fire and Ice TV	Narrator
1999	Vendetta MOVIE	D.A. Luzenberg
1999	Atomic Train TV	The President
1999	Norman Rockwell: Painting America MOVIE	Narrator
1999	Niagara: A History of the Falls MOVIE	Narrator
1999	Walking Across Egypt MOVIE	Reverend Vernon
1999	Ultimate autos TV	host
1998	Saint Maybe MOVIE	Doug Bedloe
1998	Frank Lloyd Wright TV	Self - Narrator (voice)
1998	Better Living MOVIE	Jack
1997	Liberty! TV	Narrator
1997	Critical Care MOVIE	Robert Payne
1997	The Practice TV	Anderson Pearson
1996	Pandora's Clock TV	President
1996	What Love Sees MOVIE	Morton Treadway
1996	A Season in Purgatory MOVIE	Dr. Shugrue
1996	A Season in Purgatory TV	Dr. Shugrue
1996	Soul of the Game MOVIE	Branch Rickey
1995	Nixon MOVIE	Nelson Rockefeller
1995	The Face on the Milk Carton MOVIE	Frank Jessmon
1995	Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain TV	Thomas Jefferson (voice)
1995	Here Come the Munsters MOVIE	Herman Munster
1994	Ri¢hie Ri¢h MOVIE	Richard Rich
1994	Don't Drink the Water MOVIE	Mr. Kilroy
1994	Foreign Student MOVIE	Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore
1993	A Foreign Field MOVIE	Ralph
1993	My Boyfriend's Back MOVIE	Mr. Dingle
1993	Born Yesterday MOVIE	Ed Deverey
1993	Homicide: Life on the Street TV	Thomas Pandolfi
1992	Hero MOVIE	Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide
1991	Fire in the Dark MOVIE	Robert
1991	Sweet Poison MOVIE	Henry
1990	Law & Order TV	Frederic Matson
1990	Law & Order TV	Drew Seeley
1990	Law & Order TV	Defense Attorney Mosbeck
1990	Night of 100 Stars III MOVIE	Self
1990	Wings TV	Y.M. Burg
1990	So Proudly We Hail MOVIE	James Wagner
1989	Screen One TV	Ralph
1988	Hothouse TV	Woods
1988	Big Business MOVIE	Graham Sherbourne
1987	Overboard MOVIE	Grant Stayton III
1987	The Lost Boys MOVIE	Max
1987	The Lawrenceville Stories TV	Head Master
1986	Murrow MOVIE	Fred Friendly
1985	The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV	Dr. Maxwell Stoddard / Litton
1985	Compromising Positions MOVIE	Bob Singer
1985	The Man with One Red Shoe MOVIE	Brown
1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo MOVIE	Henry
1984	Mrs. Soffel MOVIE	Warden Peter Soffel
1983	Memorial Day MOVIE	Ned Larwin
1982	St. Elsewhere TV	Father Joseph McCabe
1982	Nature TV	Narrator (voice)
1982	Annie MOVIE	FDR
1982	Death Valley MOVIE	Paul Stanton
1982	A Little Sex MOVIE	Tommy
1982	The Gift of Life MOVIE	Dr. Quinn
1982	The Electric Grandmother MOVIE	Father
1981	Reds MOVIE	Max Eastman
1981	Dear Liar MOVIE	George Bernard Shaw
1981	The Private History of a Campaign That Failed MOVIE	The Stranger
1981	Harry's War MOVIE	Harry Johnson
1979	O Youth and Beauty! MOVIE	Kip Lawton
1979	Freedom Road MOVIE	Stephen Holmes
1979	The Sorrows of Gin MOVIE	Kip Lawton
1979	Portrait of a Stripper MOVIE	Frank Andrews
1979	The North Avenue Irregulars MOVIE	Michael Hill
1979	Take Down MOVIE	Ed Branish
1978	Brass Target MOVIE	Col. Walter Gilchrist
1978	The Betsy MOVIE	Dan Weyman
1978	A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story MOVIE	Lou Gehrig
1977	Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years MOVIE	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1976	Eleanor and Franklin TV	Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Age 20-50
1975	Valley Forge MOVIE	Self
1975	Beacon Hill TV	Richard Palmer
1975	The Great Waldo Pepper MOVIE	Ezra Stiles
1974	The Great Gatsby MOVIE	Klipspringer
1973	The Day of the Dolphin MOVIE	Mike
1973	The Paper Chase MOVIE	Thomas Craig Anderson
1972	MAS*H TV	Self
1971	Lady Liberty MOVIE	Policeman (uncredited)
1971	Great Performances TV	Self
1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame TV	Folsom
1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame TV	Self
1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame TV	Doug Bedloe
	History's Lost & Found TV	Self
	Wonder Woman TV	Senator Warren

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