Edward Herrmann on screen and stage

Edward Herrmann was an American actor of the stage and screen.

He was most known for his performances as Franklin D. Roosevelt in the limited series Eleanor and Franklin (1976), and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977) and as Richard Gilmore in Amy Sherman-Palladino's comedy-drama series Gilmore Girls (2000-2007).

Herrmann started his career working in theatre on Broadway in 1972 with his debut in Moonchildren alongside James Woods. He received two Tony Award nominations winning for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Mrs. Warren's Profession in 1976. For his work on television, Herrmann received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning for his performance in The Practice in 1999. He also received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination with the ensemble for Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995). Herrmann became known as a character actor having appeared in various films such as Warren Beatty's Reds (1981), Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Garry Marshall's Overboard (1987), Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) and Chris Rock's I Think I Love My Wife (2007). He is also known for his guest performances in television M*A*S*H, Law & Order, and The Good Wife.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	Lady Liberty	Policeman	Uncredited
1973	The Paper Chase	Thomas Craig Anderson
	The Day of the Dolphin	Mike
1974	The Great Gatsby	Klipspringer
1975	The Great Waldo Pepper	Ezra Stiles
1978	The Betsy	Dan Weyman
	Brass Target	Colonel Walter Gilchrist
1979	Take Down	Ed Branish
	The North Avenue Irregulars	Reverend Michael Hill
1981	Harry's War	Harry Johnson
	Reds	Max Eastman
1982	Death Valley	Paul Stanton
	A Little Sex	Tommy
	Annie	President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1984	Mrs. Soffel	Warden Peter Soffel
1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Henry
	The Man with One Red Shoe	Brown
	Compromising Positions	Bob Singer
1986	Laughter in the Dark
1987	The Lost Boys	Max
	Overboard	Grant Stayton III
1988	Big Business	Graham Sherbourne
1992	Hero	Mr. Broadman	Uncredited
1993	Born Yesterday	Ed Devery
	My Boyfriend's Back	Mr. Dingle
1994	Foreign Student	Zachary "Zach" Gilmore
	Richie Rich	Richard Rich Sr.
1995	Nixon	Nelson Rockefeller
1997	Critical Care	Robert Payne
1998	Better Living	Jack
	A Civil Action		Uncredited
1999	Walking Across Egypt	Reverend Vernon
2001	Double Take	Charles Allsworth
	Down	Matthew Milligan
	The Cat's Meow	William Randolph Hearst
2002	The Emperor's Club	Headmaster Woodbridge
2003	Intolerable Cruelty	Rex Rexroth
2004	Welcome to Mooseport	Avery Hightower	Uncredited
	Bereft	Lloyd
	The Aviator	Joseph Breen
2005	Ape to Man	The Narrator	Direct-to-video documentary
2006	Relative Strangers	Doug Clayton
	Wedding Daze	Lyle
	Factory Girl	James Townsend
2007	I Think I Love My Wife	Mr. Landis
2009	The Skeptic	Dr. Shepard
	The Six Wives of Henry Lefay	Goodenough
2010	The Surge: The Untold Story	The Narrator	Documentary short
2011	Son of Morning	Thomas
	Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star	Jeremiah Larson
	Redemption: For Robbing the Dead	Governor Dawson
2012	Price Check	Jack Bennington
	Treasure Buddies	Philip Wellington	Direct-to-video
	Christmas Oranges	Mr. Crampton
	Heaven's Door	Nate Christensen
	Enduring Legacy	Charles Francis Adams	Voice, Short
2013	Are You Here	Dr. Vincent
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Stratton Oakmont Commercial	Voice
2014	The Town That Dreaded Sundown	Reverend Joe Cartwright
2015	Coach of the Year	Bill Ford

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	Beacon Hill	Richard Palmer	11 episodes
	Valley Forge	Folsom	Television film
1976	Eleanor and Franklin	Franklin D. Roosevelt (age 20–50)	TV miniseries; 2 episodes
1977	Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years		Television film
	A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story	Lou Gehrig
1979	Portrait of a Stripper	Frank Andrews
	Freedom Road	Stephen Holms
	3 by Cheever	Kip Lawton	TV miniseries 2 episodes
1980	M*A*S*H	Captain Steven J. Newsome	Episode: "Heal Thyself"
1981	The Private History of a Campaign That Failed	The Stranger	Television film
	Dear Liar	George Bernard Shaw
1982	The Electric Grandmother	Father
	The Gift of Life	Dr. Quinn
1983	Freedom to Speak		TV miniseries; 4 episodes
	Memorial Day	Ned Larwin	Television film
1984-1986	St. Elsewhere	Priest / Father Joseph McCabe	4 episodes
1984 1991	American Playhouse	Alger Hiss English Professor	Episodes: "Concealed Enemies" (4) "The End of a Sentence"
1986	Murrow	Fred Friendly	Television film
1987–1989	The Lawrenceville Stories	The Headmaster	TV miniseries; 3 episodes
1987	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Dr. Maxwell Stoddard / Litton	Episode: "The Mole"
1988	Hothouse	Woods	Episode: "The Actress"
1990	So Proudly We Hail	James Wagner	Television film
1991	The General Motors Playwrights Theater	Ben Cunningham	Episode: "The Last Act Is a Solo"
	Sweet Poison	Henry	Television film
	Fire in the Dark	Robert
1993	A Foreign Field	Ralph
1994	Don't Drink the Water	Mr. Kilroy
1995	The Face on the Milk Carton	Frank Jessmon
	Here Come the Munsters	Herman Munster
	Wings	Y.M. Burg	Episode: "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wrong"
1995-1999 2009	Law & Order	Drew Seely Mr. Mosbeck Frederic Matson	3 episodes
1996	Soul of the Game	Branch Rickey	Television film
	A Season in Purgatory	Dr. Shugrue	TV miniseries; 2 episodes
	What Love Sees	Morton Treadway	Television film
	Homicide: Life on the Street	Thomas Pandolfi	Episode: "M.E., Myself and I"
	Doomsday Virus	President	TV miniseries; 2 episodes
1997–1998 2001	The Practice	Anderson Pearson	10 episodes
1997	Biography	The Narrator	Episode: "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer"
	Liberty! The American Revolution		TV miniseries; 6 episodes
	The Fifties		TV miniseries documentary; 7 episodes
1998	Frank Lloyd Wright		Documentary television film
	Saint Maybe	Doug Bedloe	Television film
1998–2000	Nova	The Narrator	Documentary series 7 episodes
1999	Atomic Train	President Fellwick	TV miniseries; 2 episodes
	Vendetta	District Attorney Luzenberg	Television film
	RKO 281
	The Korean War: Fire and Ice	The Narrator	TV miniseries documentary
	Niagara: A History of the Falls		Documentary television film
1999–2002	Save Our History	Host / The Narrator	Documentary series; 4 episodes
1999–2005	History's Lost & Found	The Narrator	Documentary series; 65 episodes
2000	Horror in the East		Documentary television film
	Battle History of the U.S. Navy		TV miniseries documentary; 4 episodes
	Founding Fathers
2000–2001 2003	Oz	Harrison Beecher	6 episodes
2000–2007	Gilmore Girls	Richard Gilmore	86 episodes
2001	James Dean	Raymond Massey	Television film
	In Search of Christmas	Host / The Narrator
2002	Antarctica: A Frozen History	The Narrator	Documentary television film
	Founding Brothers
	First Mothers
	The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon
	Rise and Fall of the Spartans		miniseries; 4 episodes
2003	The Louisiana Purchase		Documentary television film
	Crossing Jordan	Captain Thomas Malden	Episode: "Pandora's Trunk: Part 2"
	Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion	The Narrator	Documentary television film
	Modern Marvels		Documentary series Episode: "4x4"
	Mavericks, Miracles and Medicine		TV miniseries documentary 4 episodes
	Russia, Land of the Tsars
	Nostradamus: 500 Years Later		Documentary television film
	The Day They Died
	The Samurai
	Stalin: Man of Steel
2004	Isaac's Storm
	First Invasion: The War of 1812
	Countdown to Armageddon
2005	Beyond the Da Vinci Code
	The Presidents		Documentary series 8 episodes
	The French Revolution		Documentary television film
	FDR: A Presidency Revealed
	Giganto: The Real King Kong
	Decoding the Past		Episode: "Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle"
	Tom Goes to the Mayor	Benjamin Kaplan (voice)	Episode: "Porcelain Birds"
	The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy	The Narrator	Documentary television film
	UFO Files		Episode: "Beyond the War of the Worlds"
	Bible Battles		Television special documentary
2006	The Ten Commandments		TV miniseries 2 episodes
	Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces		Documentary television film
	Violent Earth: New England's Killer Hurricane
	Mayan Doomsday Prophecy
	Desperate Crossing: The True Story of the Mayflower
	Eighty Acres of Hell
2007	Banned from the Bible II
	The States		10 episodes
	Titanic's Achilles Heel		Documentary television film
	The Revolution		Documentary series 4 episodes
	Columbus: The Lost Voyage		Documentary television film
	Grey's Anatomy	Dr. Norman Shales	3 episodes
	Andrew Jackson	The Narrator	Documentary television film
	How the Earth Was Made		Documentary television special
2008	30 Rock	Walter	Episode: "210"
2009	Hatching Pete	Principal Fred Daly	Television film
2010	Hold at All Costs: The Story of the Battle of Outpost Harry	The Narrator	Documentary television film
2010–2013	The Good Wife	Lionel Deerfield	6 episodes
2011	Better with You	Judge	Episode: "Better with the Baby"
	A Christmas Wish	Les McCallum	Television film
	Drop Dead Diva	Reverend Phillips	Episode: "Ah, Men"
	The Christmas Pageant	Garrett Clark	Television film
	Wonder Woman	Senator Warren	Unaired television pilot
2012-2016	American Dad!	Old Man / Councilman	Voice; 2 episodes
2012	Harry's Law	Judge Lester Babcock	3 episodes
2013	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Mr. Vogel	Episode: "In Vino Veritas"
	How I Met Your Mother	Reverend Lowell	Episode: "Knight Vision"
2014	Black Box	Dr. Reynaud	2 episodes
	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History	Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice)	7 episodes
2015	Perception	Jack Pierce	Episode: "Brainstorm"
	Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies	The Narrator	3 episodes

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1972	Moonchildren	Performer	Royale Theatre, Broadway
1976	Mrs. Warren's Profession	Frank Gardner	Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Broadway
1980	The Philadelphia Story	Macaulay Connor
1983	Plenty	Raymond Brock	Plymouth Theatre, Broadway
1989	Love Letters	Andrew Makepiece Ladd II	Edison Theatre, Broadway
1998	The Deep Blue Sea	William Collyer	Criterion Center Stage, Broadway

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Men of Valor	Narrator