Edward Herrmann
Birthday: 1943-07-21
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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.
Movies
The Lost Boys
When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlik...
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James Dean
The man behind the legend and a knowing look at 1950s Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic ...
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Don't Drink the Water
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international ...
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Overboard
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to p...
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The Man with One Red Shoe
A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe....
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Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Sch...
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My Boyfriend's Back
Missy McCloud is the most beautiful girl in school and Johnny Dingle has been in love with her for y...
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Intolerable Cruelty
A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making...
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The Skeptic
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports ...
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Wedding Daze
After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at t...
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Mrs. Soffel
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. E...
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Factory Girl
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous...
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Big Business
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same h...
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The Cat's Meow
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Ran...
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I Think I Love My Wife
Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not get...
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Banned from the Bible II
Banned from the Bible II continues from the original documentary Banned from the Bible. The document...
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The Paper Chase
A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daugh...
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The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
A presumed-dead man's current wife and former wives squabble over his funeral arrangements....
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Ape to Man
Scientists from the mid-nineteenth century have searched for the fossil remains of the "missing link...
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Annie
An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her ther...
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Bereft
A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again....
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Isaac's Storm
The story of meteorology Isaac Cline and the 1900 hurricane that destroyed Galveston, Texas, killing...
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The North Avenue Irregulars
When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are wil...
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Reds
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
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Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower
So much more than simply the story of the Thanksgiving meal, the epic saga of the Pilgrims is one of...
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Down
After the elevators at a New York City skyscraper begin inexplicably malfunctioning, putting its pas...
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The Great Waldo Pepper
A biplane pilot and WWI veteran takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the ...
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Brass Target
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he...
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Death Valley
A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley a...
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Soul of the Game
In 1945, the world of baseball is divided between the Majors and the Negro Leagues - but the time ha...
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Saint Maybe
A lonely teen troubled by a past family tragedy is suspicious of his sister-in-law, believing she is...
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It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
A documentary behind the scenes of Peter Bogdanovich's 'The Cat's Meow' (2001)....
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The Electric Grandmother
To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarr...
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Harry's War
After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the c...
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Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces
On a cold night in April 1912, over 1,500 people aboard the RMS Titanic lost their lives to the merc...
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Treasure Buddies
In a race against a devious cat, the Buddies and their new friends, Cammy and Babi, must avoid booby...
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The Face on the Milk Carton
Based on the book by Caroline B. Cooney, a girl happens to look down at a milk carton one day and sh...
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Compromising Positions
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigat...
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Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
This thorough documentary covers the life of President Theodore Roosevelt, from his birth until his ...
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Columbus The Lost Voyage
Columbus' 4th voyage has been a total failure: he has not found the westward passage, he has no gold...
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A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
One of the most moving stories in the annals of sports is presented in this true drama documenting t...
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The French Revolution
On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military store...
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Portrait of a Stripper
A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds th...
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The Face: Jesus in Art
This documentary traces the dramatically different ways in which Jesus has been represented in art t...
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Lady Liberty
An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she...
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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House....
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The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
A Confederate soldier (Pat Hingle) tells boys to kill a man (Edward Herrmann), whose ghost comes bac...
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The Emperor's Club
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled w...
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The Day of the Dolphin
A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidna...
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The Betsy
Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the w...
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Are You Here
When Steve Dallas, a womanizing local weatherman, hears that his off-the-grid best friend Ben Baker ...
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Niagara: A History of the Falls
The history of Niagara Falls and the people that made it famous....
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The Purple Rose of Cairo
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only esca...
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Night of 100 Stars III
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....
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So Proudly We Hail
A white supremacist exploits the works of a college anthropologist and a teen who joins his group....
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The Town that Dreaded Sundown
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer str...
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Here Come the Munsters
The Munsters come to America to search for Herman's brother-in-law Norman Hyde, only to find out tha...
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Christmas Oranges
A happy child is sent to a harsh institution for orphans where the headmaster dislikes her, but her ...
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The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...
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Better Living
A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardshi...
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Ring Christmas Bells
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir presents Ring Christmas Bells, the next musical masterpiece in a series ...
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Critical Care
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-s...
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Fire in the Dark
A 75-year old widow with battles herself as she struggles with being a burden to those she loves. Th...
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In Search of Christmas
Digging into faith is always a delicate and difficult proposition, but In search of Christmas is a f...
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Sherman's March
This documentary chronicles General William Tecumseh Sherman's fabled "March to the Sea" through Geo...
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Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Koran
The Koran is one of the most important works ever written. For almost one billion people worldwide, ...
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The Gift of Life
A young woman is faced with local disapproval and strain on her marriage when she agrees to serve as...
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A Christmas Wish
A broke single mother lands a job at a small town diner where the kindly patrons and staff help her ...
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The Wolf of Wall Street
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on...
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A Little Sex
Michael and Katherine have enjoyed a long relationship together even before they tie the knot. But M...
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Take Down
An unqualified teacher finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school...
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The Aviator
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, durin...
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The Sorrows of Gin
An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their negl...
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Andrew Jackson
Through interviews, visits to historical locations and vivid reenactments, this History Channel prod...
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O Youth and Beauty!
Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice ho...
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Nixon
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...
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Murrow
Follow legendary news reporter/commentator from his radio broadcasts from the rooftops of London dur...
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Welcome to Mooseport
A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine...
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Memorial Day
An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from ...
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First Invasion: The War of 1812
First Invasion: The War of 1812, a History Channel documentary that first aired in 2004, portrays a ...
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Freedom Road
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional co...
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Morristown: Where America Survived
A thirty-minute High Definition documentary which revisits that winter of 1779-80 when Washington’s ...
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Double Take
A man on the run takes another man's passport, only to find himself stuck with the identity of a str...
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Price Check
A middle aged, middle class, former music industry executive with a stay-at-home wife and son toils ...
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Heaven's Door
12-year-old Riley Ann Taylor recently lost her grandfather, who died right in front of her while tea...
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A Foreign Field
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to Fran...
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What Love Sees
Jean Treadway, a beautiful young girl in her twenties, comes from a world of wealth and privilege. G...
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The Templar Code: Crusade of Secrecy
An overview of the rise and fall of the Knights Templar. A medieval military/religious order with al...
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Hero
Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of thei...
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Vendetta
Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrant...
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Coach of the Year
A swim team tries to win a state championship - without a pool to practice in....
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The Christmas Pageant
Vera Parks, an overly intense and demanding Broadway director, gets fired from yet another job, leav...
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A Season in Purgatory
True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a yo...
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Relative Strangers
An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time....
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Valley Forge
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary W...
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Bible Battles
In one of the most hostile lands on the planet, an ancient people called the Israelites forged an ar...
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Hatching Pete
Pete is very inconspicuous at school, unlike his extrovert mate Cleatis who's happy to don a chicken...
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Son of Morning
As a solar catastrophe threatens the world, Phillip Katz (Joseph Cross), a stressed-out copywriter, ...
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Titanic's Achilles Heel
An expedition looks into whether Titanic's hull had a construction design flaw that caused her to br...
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Stalin: Man of Steel
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted por...
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Born Yesterday
A rich millionaire hires a sophisticated journalist to bring his somewhat dim-witted girlfriend up t...
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The Samurai
They were the knights of medieval Japan, an elite warrior class that held the reins of power and the...
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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
A kid from the Midwest moves out to Hollywood in order to follow in his parents footsteps -- and bec...
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Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
For Robbing the Dead is a story of compassion - compassion toward those who may seem the least deser...
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Norman Rockwell: Painting America
A documentary about American artist Norman Rockwell, featuring his biography accompanied with opinio...
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Antarctica: A Frozen History
Antarctica: A Frozen History takes a look at the history and stories of the human explorations in th...
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Dinosaur Secrets Revealed
Dinosaurs roamed and ruled earth for more than 150-million years, then suddenly vanished leaving onl...
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FDR: A Presidency Revealed
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pu...
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Witness to 'Reds'
Cast and crew of "Reds" revisit their memories and stories while making the film....
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Sweet Poison
A convict on the run from the law kidnaps a couple who are on their way to a funeral. He finds that ...
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The Louisiana Purchase
The History Channel looks at the background of the Louisiana Purchase and how Thomas Jefferson's emi...
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