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.
The Lost Boys
Max
James Dean
Raymond Massey
Don't Drink the Water
Mr. Kilroy
The Man with One Red Shoe
Brown
Overboard
Grant Stayton III
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Richard Rich
My Boyfriend's Back
Mr. Dingle
Intolerable Cruelty
Rex Rexroth
The Skeptic
Shepard
Wedding Daze
Lyle
Mrs. Soffel
Warden Peter Soffel
Factory Girl
James Townsend
Big Business
Graham Sherbourne
The Cat's Meow
W. R. Hearst
I Think I Love My Wife
Mr. Landis
Banned from the Bible II
Narrator
The Paper Chase
Thomas Craig Anderson
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
John Goodenough
Ape to Man
Narrator
Annie
FDR
Bereft
Lloyd
Isaac's Storm
Narrator
The North Avenue Irregulars
Michael Hill
Reds
Max Eastman
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower
Self - Narrator (voice)
Down
Milligan
The Great Waldo Pepper
Ezra Stiles
Brass Target
Col. Walter Gilchrist
Death Valley
Paul Stanton
Soul of the Game
Branch Rickey
Saint Maybe
Doug Bedloe
Foreign Student
Zachary 'Zach' Gilmore
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
Self
The Electric Grandmother
Father
Harry's War
Harry Johnson
Treasure Buddies
Philip Wellington
The Face on the Milk Carton
Frank Jessmon
Compromising Positions
Bob Singer
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Narrator
Columbus The Lost Voyage
Narrator
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Lou Gehrig
The French Revolution
Narrator
Portrait of a Stripper
Frank Andrews
Lady Liberty
Policeman (uncredited)
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
The Stranger
The Emperor's Club
Headmaster Woodbridge
The Day of the Dolphin
Mike
The Betsy
Dan Weyman
Are You Here
Dr. Vincent
Niagara: A History of the Falls
Narrator
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Henry
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
So Proudly We Hail
James Wagner
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
Reverend Cartwright
Here Come the Munsters
Herman Munster
Christmas Oranges
Mr. Crampton
Better Living
Jack
The Great Gatsby
Klipspringer
Ring Christmas Bells
Self
Critical Care
Robert Payne
Fire in the Dark
Robert
Sherman's March
Narrator
Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran
Narrator
Russia, Land of the Tsars
Narrator
The Gift of Life
Dr. Quinn
A Christmas Wish
Les McCallum
The Wolf of Wall Street
Stratton Oakmont Commercial (voice)
A Little Sex
Tommy
Take Down
Ed Branish
The Aviator
Joseph Breen
The Sorrows of Gin
Kip Lawton
Andrew Jackson
Narrator
O Youth and Beauty!
Kip Lawton
Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
Murrow
Fred Friendly
Welcome to Mooseport
Avery Hightower Debate Moderator (uncredited)
First Invasion: The War of 1812
Narrator
Freedom Road
Stephen Holmes
Morristown: Where America Survived
Narrator
Double Take
Charles Allsworth
Price Check
Jack Bennington
Heaven's Door
Nate Christensen
A Foreign Field
Ralph
What Love Sees
Morton Treadway
The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy
Narrator
Hero
Mr. Broadman - Man Committing Suicide
Vendetta
D.A. Luzenberg
Coach of the Year
Bill Ford
Walking Across Egypt
Reverend Vernon
The Christmas Pageant
Garrett Clark
A Season in Purgatory
Dr. Shugrue
Relative Strangers
Doug Clayton
Valley Forge
Bible Battles
Narrator (voice)
Hatching Pete
The Principal
Son of Morning
Thomas
Titanic's Achilles Heel
Narrator
Born Yesterday
Ed Deverey
Stalin: Man of Steel
Narrator (voice)
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
Jeremiah Larson
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
Governor Dawson
Norman Rockwell: Painting America
Narrator
Witness to 'Reds'
Self
Sweet Poison
Henry
The Louisiana Purchase
Narrator