Edward Herrmann

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Edward Herrmann
Born	Edward Kirk Herrmann July 21, 1943 (1943-07-21) (age 65) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation	actor, director, screenwriter
Years active	1967 - Present

Edward Kirk Herrmann (born July 21, 1943) is an American television and film actor.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Herrmann was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Jean Eleanor (née O'Connor) and John Anthony Herrmann.^[1] He has German ancestry on his father's side.^[2] Herrmann grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and graduated from Bucknell University in 1965, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. He studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art^[3] on a Fulbright Fellowship.

[edit] Career

Herrmann began his career in theatre. One of the first professional productions he appeared in was the American premiere of Michael Weller's Moonchildren at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. in November 1971. He moved with the show to New York City to make his Broadway debut the following year. Herrmann returned to Broadway in 1976 to portray Frank Gardner in the revival of Mrs. Warren's Profession. For his performance he won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play.

He is known for his uncanny portrayal of American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the made-for-TV movie, Eleanor and Franklin (1976) and the sequel, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977) (both of which earned him Best Actor Emmy nominations), as well as in the first feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical Annie (1982). Herrmann portrayed Herman Munster in the Fox telefilm Here Come The Munsters which aired on Halloween of 1995.

Herrmann also earned an Emmy in 1999 for his guest appearances on The Practice. He was nominated for a Tony for Plenty in 1983 and Emmys in 1986 and 1987 for his guest-starring role as Father Joseph McCabe on St. Elsewhere. Herrmann also played Tobias Beecher's father on Oz. From 2000 to 2007, he portrayed Richard Gilmore on the CW's Gilmore Girls.

Herrmann's film career began in the mid-1970s, playing supporting roles as Robert Redford's partner in The Great Waldo Pepper, a law student in The Paper Chase, the idle, piano-playing Klipspringer in The Great Gatsby and opposite Laurence Olivier in The Betsy (1978). Among Herrmann's better known roles are as the title character in Harry's War (1981), Goldie Hawn's rich husband in Overboard, Reverend Michael Hill in Disney's The North Avenue Irregulars, one of the characters in the film-within-a-film in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, and as Max, the mild-mannered head vampire in the teen vampire film The Lost Boys.

Herrmann is also known for his voluminous voice work for The History Channel and various PBS specials, and has been the "voice of Dodge" for twelve years. His voice work also includes dozens of audio books, including Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Herrmann is a well-known automotive enthusiast and restores classic automobiles. He is the MC for the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance every August and hosts the television show Automobiles on The History Channel. Since his well-received portrayal of J. Alden Weir in "My Dearest Anna" at the Wilton Playshop in Wilton, CT, he has since been announced as a special guest of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square in their Ring Christmas Bells holiday concert in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 11-14, 2008.

[edit] Filmography

His papers are currently housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Edward Herrmann at the Internet Broadway Database
• Edward Herrmann at the Internet Movie Database
• Edward Herrmann at TV.com
• Golden Voices Herrmann
• Edward Herrmann cast bio on The CW
• Edward Herrmann interviewed for Working in the Theatre: Performance video seminar at American Theatre Wing, April 1998

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v • d • e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Edward Herrmann (1976) · Jonathan Pryce (1977) · Lester Rawlins (1978) · Michael Gough (1979) · David Rounds (1980) · Brian Backer (1981) · Zakes Mokae (1982) · Matthew Broderick (1983) · Joe Mantegna (1984) · Barry Miller (1985) · John Mahoney (1986) · John Randolph (1987) · B. D. Wong (1988) · Boyd Gaines (1989) · Charles Durning (1990) · Kevin Spacey (1991) · Laurence Fishburne (1992) · Stephen Spinella (1993) · Jeffrey Wright (1994) · John Glover (1995) · Ruben Santiago-Hudson (1996) · Owen Teale (1997) · Tom Murphy (1998) · Frank Wood (1999) · Roy Dotrice (2000) Complete list: (1947-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)