Edward Herrmann

Highest Rated: 91% The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Lowest Rated: 0% Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)

Birthday: Jul 21, 1943

Birthplace: Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Born July 21st, 1943, Tony-winning American stage and film actor Edward Herrmann used his Fulbright scholarship to study at London's Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; several years of regional theatre led to movie and TV work. In 1977 Herrmann offered the first of his many interpretations of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the TV movie Eleanor and Franklin (He'd later be a singing FDR in the theatrical feature Annie [1982]). The actor was frequently dissatisfied with his own performances, feeling that with a little more time he could do much better. Such was the case of his portrayal of baseball great Lou Gehrig in the TV drama A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1979), though Herrmann was proud of the fact that he learned to pitch and bat southpaw, something that a previous movie Gehrig, Gary Cooper, never quite mastered. His occasional villainous movie appearances notwithstanding, Edward Herrmann is to most viewers the very embodiment of intelligence and integrity; he was decidedly well cast as the erudite host of several historical documentaries on the A&E Network. In 2000, Herrmann joined the cast of Gilmore Girls as patriarch Richard Gilmore, and continued appearing in supporting roles in movies, including the headmaster in The Emperor's Club (2002), film censor Joseph Breen in The Aviator (2004) and an accountant in Factory Girl (2006). Once Gilmore Girls ended in 2007, Herrmann returned to episodic TV, with runs on Grey's Anatomy and a recurring gig on The Good Wife. In 2014, he returned to his familiar role of FDR one last time, voicing the president in the Ken Burns documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. Herrmann died in 2014, at age 71.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	Coach of the Year	Actor	—	2015
66%	The Town That Dreaded Sundown	Reverend Cartwright	—	2014
8%	Are You Here	Dr. Vincent	—	2014
79%	The Wolf of Wall Street	Voice of Stratton Oakmont Commercial	$91.4M	2013
64%	Price Check	Jack Bennington	$5.2K	2012
No Score Yet	Christmas Oranges	Mr. Crampton	—	2012
No Score Yet	Treasure Buddies	Philip Wellington	—	2012
No Score Yet	Doorway to Heaven (Heaven's Door)	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	Redemption: For Robbing The Dead	Governor Dawson	—	2012
No Score Yet	A Christmas Wish	Les	—	2011
0%	Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star	Jeremiah Larson	$2.4M	2011
No Score Yet	The Christmas Pageant	Garrett Clark	—	2011
No Score Yet	Son Of Morning	Thomas	—	2011
No Score Yet	The Six Wives of Henry Lefay	Goodenough	—	2010
8%	The Skeptic	Shepard	—	2009
No Score Yet	Hatching Pete	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Alzheimer's Disease: Facing the Facts	Actor	—	2009
19%	I Think I Love My Wife	Mr. Landis	$12.5M	2007
20%	Factory Girl	James Townsend	$1.6M	2007
No Score Yet	Ben Franklin	Narrator	—	2007
No Score Yet	How the Earth Was Made	Narrator	—	2007
No Score Yet	Sherman's March	Narrator	—	2007
No Score Yet	Columbus: The Lost Voyage	Narrator	—	2007
No Score Yet	Titanic's Achilles Heel	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Relative Strangers	Doug Clayton	—	2006
No Score Yet	Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower	Actor	—	2006
33%	Wedding Daze	Lyle Wells	—	2006
No Score Yet	Decoding the Past - Templar Code: Parts 1 & 2	Actor	—	2006
No Score Yet	The Presidents	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Bereft	Dad	—	2005
No Score Yet	FDR: A Presidency Revealed	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Ben Franklin	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Ape to Man	Actor	—	2005
86%	The Aviator	Joseph Breen	$102.6M	2004
No Score Yet	Nature: Holy Cow	Actor	—	2004
13%	Welcome to Mooseport	Debate Moderator	$14.3M	2004
No Score Yet	First Invasion: The War of 1812	Actor	—	2004
75%	Intolerable Cruelty	Rex Rexroth	$35.1M	2003
50%	The Emperor's Club	Headmaster Woodbridge	$14M	2002
20%	Down (The Shaft)	Milligan	—	2001
No Score Yet	James Dean	Raymond Massey	—	2001
75%	The Cat's Meow	William Randolph Hearst	$3.2M	2001
No Score Yet	The Face: Jesus In Art	Narrator	—	2001
12%	Double Take	Charles Allsworth	—	2001
No Score Yet	Horror in the East	Actor	—	2001
No Score Yet	Founding Fathers	Actor	—	2000
No Score Yet	Vendetta	D.A. Luzenberg	—	1999
No Score Yet	Atomic Train	President	—	1999
No Score Yet	Walking Across Egypt	Reverend	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Homes of FDR	Franklin D. Roosevelt	—	1999
No Score Yet	Saint Maybe	Doug Bedloe	—	1998
No Score Yet	Frank Lloyd Wright	Narrator	—	1998
No Score Yet	Better Living	Jack	—	1998
No Score Yet	F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer	Actor	—	1997
59%	Critical Care	Robert Payne	—	1997
No Score Yet	Pandora's Clock (Doomsday Virus)	President	—	1996
67%	Soul of the Game	Branch Rickey	—	1996
No Score Yet	Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain	Actor	—	1996
74%	Nixon	Nelson Rockefeller	—	1995
No Score Yet	Here Come the Munsters	Herman Munster	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Face on the Milk Carton	Frank Jessmon	—	1995
24%	Richie Rich	Richard Rich, Sr	—	1994
44%	Don't Drink the Water	Mr. Kilroy	—	1994
No Score Yet	Foreign Student	Zach Gilmore	—	1994
No Score Yet	A Foreign Field	Ralph	—	1994
14%	My Boyfriend's Back	Dingle	—	1993
24%	Born Yesterday	Ed	—	1993
65%	Hero	Actor	—	1992
No Score Yet	Sweet Poison	Actor	—	1991
No Score Yet	Fire in the Dark	Robert	—	1991
44%	Big Business	Graham Sherbourne	—	1988
43%	Overboard	Grant	—	1987
75%	The Lost Boys	Max	—	1987
No Score Yet	Murrow	Actor	—	1986
47%	The Man with One Red Shoe	Brown	—	1985
56%	Compromising Positions	Bob Singer	—	1985
91%	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Henry	—	1985
36%	Mrs. Soffel	Warden Peter Soffel	—	1984
No Score Yet	Memorial Day	Ned Larwin	—	1983
56%	Annie	Franklin D. Roosevelt	—	1982
No Score Yet	Death Valley	Paul	—	1982
No Score Yet	A Little Sex	Tommy	—	1982
No Score Yet	Electric Grandmother	Actor	—	1982
90%	Reds	Max Eastman	—	1981
No Score Yet	Harry's War	Harry Johnson	—	1981
78%	The North Avenue Irregulars	Michael Hill	—	1979
No Score Yet	Take Down (Fighting Chance)	Ed Branish	—	1979
No Score Yet	Freedom Road	Stephen Holms	—	1979
No Score Yet	Portrait of a Stripper	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Sorrows of Gin	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Brass Target	Col. Walter Gilchrist	—	1978
No Score Yet	A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story	Lou Gehrig	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Betsy	Dan Weyman	—	1978
No Score Yet	Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	—	1977
No Score Yet	Eleanor and Franklin	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	—	1976
67%	The Great Waldo Pepper	Ezra Stiles	—	1975
39%	The Great Gatsby	Klipspringer	—	1974
48%	The Day of the Dolphin	Mike	—	1973
86%	The Paper Chase	Thomas Craig Anderson	—	1973
No Score Yet	Norman Rockwell: Painting America	Narrator	—	1963

TV

		Credit
82%	Gilmore Girls 2000-2016	Richard Gilmore	2016 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
81%	Grey's Anatomy 2005	Norman Norman Shales	2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
24%	Black Box 2014	Dr. Reynaud Dr. Raynaud	2014
100%	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History 2014	Voice	2014
No Score Yet	Comment je l'ai rencontrée 2005-2011	Rev. Lowell	2013
No Score Yet	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2000-2015	Albert Vogel	2013
83%	How I Met Your Mother 2005-2014	Rev. Lowell	2013
94%	The Good Wife 2009-2016	Liionel Deerfield Lionel Deerfield Lionel	2013 2012 2010
No Score Yet	Nature 1982	Voice Narrator	2004
No Score Yet	Crossing Jordan 2001-2007	Captain	2003 2002
89%	Oz 1997-2003	Harrison Beecher	2003 2000
27%	MDs 2002	Mr. Jeremiah Orbach	2002
No Score Yet	The Practice 1997-2004	Anderson Pearson Pearson	2001 1998 1997
No Score Yet	Law & Order 1990-2010	Mosbeck Former Priest Mossbach Father Drew Seeley	1999 1995
91%	Homicide: Life on the Street 1993-1999	Thomas Pandolfi	1996
No Score Yet	Wings 1990-1997	Architect	1995
No Score Yet	American Playhouse 1982-1996	Hiss Headmaster	1988 1987
No Score Yet	St. Elsewhere 1982-1988	Father McCabe Father Joseph McCabe	1986
No Score Yet	MAS*H 1972-1983	Capt. Steven J. Newsome	1980
No Score Yet	American Masters 2001	Narrator

QUOTES FROM Edward Herrmann CHARACTERS

Max says: I told you never to come in here. Wild kids.

Lucy Emerson says: Oh, they're just young. We were that age, too, once. But they dress better.

Jackie Robinson says: Don't you want someone strong enough to fight back?

Branch Rickey says: I want someone strong enough not too.

Max says: My own brother a God damned shit sucking vampire! You wait 'til mom finds out buddy!

Sam Emerson says: My own brother a God damned shit sucking vampire! You wait 'til mom finds out buddy!

Grant Stayton III says: Do we have a straight jacket on board?

Dr. Norman Korman says: I always carry one, yes.

Joanna Stayton/"Annie Proffitt" says: Try to understand,Grant, I don't love you anymore.

Grant Stayton III says: What's love got to do with marriage?

Grant Stayton III says: Joanna, I want you tonight - how can you have your period EVERY WEEK?

Grant Stayton III says: You haven't begun to be sorry, you hillbilly harlot!