Edward Herrmann
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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
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Coach of the Year |
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— | 2015 |
66% | The Town That Dreaded Sundown |
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— | 2014 |
8% | Are You Here |
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— | 2014 |
79% | The Wolf of Wall Street |
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$91.4M | 2013 |
64% | Price Check |
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$5.2k | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Christmas Oranges |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Treasure Buddies |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Doorway to Heaven (Heaven's Door) |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Redemption: For Robbing The Dead |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | A Christmas Wish |
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— | 2011 |
3% | Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star |
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$2.4M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Christmas Pageant |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Son Of Morning |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Six Wives of Henry Lefay |
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— | 2010 |
8% | The Skeptic |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Hatching Pete |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Alzheimer's Disease: Facing the Facts |
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— | 2009 |
19% | I Think I Love My Wife |
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$12.5M | 2007 |
20% | Factory Girl |
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$1.6M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Ben Franklin |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | How the Earth Was Made |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Sherman's March |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Columbus: The Lost Voyage |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Titanic's Achilles Heel |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Relative Strangers |
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— | 2006 |
33% | Wedding Daze |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Decoding the Past - Templar Code: Parts 1 & 2 |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Presidents |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Bereft |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | FDR: A Presidency Revealed |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Ben Franklin |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Ape to Man |
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— | 2005 |
86% | The Aviator |
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$102.6M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Nature: Holy Cow |
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— | 2004 |
13% | Welcome to Mooseport |
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$14.3M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | First Invasion: The War of 1812 |
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— | 2004 |
76% | Intolerable Cruelty |
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$35.1M | 2003 |
50% | The Emperor's Club |
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$14M | 2002 |
20% | Down (The Shaft) |
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— | 2001 |
93% | James Dean |
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— | 2001 |
75% | The Cat's Meow |
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$3.2M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The Face: Jesus In Art |
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— | 2001 |
12% | Double Take |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Horror in the East |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Founding Fathers |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Vendetta |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Atomic Train |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Walking Across Egypt |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Homes of FDR |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Saint Maybe |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Frank Lloyd Wright |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Better Living |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer |
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— | 1997 |
59% | Critical Care |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Pandora's Clock (Doomsday Virus) |
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— | 1996 |
67% | Soul of the Game |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain |
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— | 1996 |
75% | Nixon |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Here Come the Munsters |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | The Face on the Milk Carton |
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— | 1995 |
24% | Richie Rich |
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— | 1994 |
44% | Don't Drink the Water |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Foreign Student |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | A Foreign Field |
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— | 1994 |
14% | My Boyfriend's Back |
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— | 1993 |
23% | Born Yesterday |
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— | 1993 |
67% | Hero |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Sweet Poison |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Fire in the Dark |
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— | 1991 |
44% | Big Business |
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— | 1988 |
45% | Overboard |
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— | 1987 |
76% | The Lost Boys |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Murrow |
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— | 1986 |
47% | The Man with One Red Shoe |
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— | 1985 |
56% | Compromising Positions |
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— | 1985 |
92% | The Purple Rose of Cairo |
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— | 1985 |
36% | Mrs. Soffel |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Memorial Day |
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— | 1983 |
57% | Annie |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Death Valley |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | A Little Sex |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Electric Grandmother |
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— | 1982 |
89% | Reds |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Harry's War |
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— | 1981 |
78% | The North Avenue Irregulars |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Take Down (Fighting Chance) |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Freedom Road |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Portrait of a Stripper |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Sorrows of Gin |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Brass Target |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | The Betsy |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Eleanor and Franklin |
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— | 1976 |
67% | The Great Waldo Pepper |
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— | 1975 |
39% | The Great Gatsby |
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— | 1974 |
42% | The Day of the Dolphin |
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— | 1973 |
83% | The Paper Chase |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Norman Rockwell: Painting America |
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— | 1963 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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85% |
Gilmore Girls
2000-2016
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84% |
Grey's Anatomy
2005
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26% |
Black Box
2014
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100% |
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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No Score Yet |
Comment je l'ai rencontrée
2005-2013
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83% |
How I Met Your Mother
2005-2014
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93% |
The Good Wife
2009-2016
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No Score Yet |
Nature
1982
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No Score Yet |
Crossing Jordan
2001-2007
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92% |
Oz
1997-2003
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25% |
MDs
2002
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No Score Yet |
The Practice
1997-2004
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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91% |
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993-1999
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No Score Yet |
Wings
1990-1997
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No Score Yet |
American Playhouse
1982-1996
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No Score Yet |
St. Elsewhere
1982-1988
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No Score Yet |
M*A*S*H
1972-1983
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No Score Yet |
American Masters
2001
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Quotes from Edward Herrmann's Characters
Max: | I told you never to come in here. Wild kids. |
Lucy Emerson: | Oh, they're just young. We were that age, too, once. But they dress better. |
Jackie Robinson: | Don't you want someone strong enough to fight back? |
Branch Rickey: | I want someone strong enough not too. |
Max: | My own brother a God damned shit sucking vampire! You wait 'til mom finds out buddy! |
Sam Emerson: | My own brother a God damned shit sucking vampire! You wait 'til mom finds out buddy! |
Grant Stayton III: | Do we have a straight jacket on board? |
Dr. Norman Korman: | I always carry one, yes. |
Joanna Stayton/"Annie Proffitt": | Try to understand,Grant, I don't love you anymore. |
Grant Stayton III: | What's love got to do with marriage? |
Grant Stayton III: | Joanna, I want you tonight - how can you have your period EVERY WEEK? |
Grant Stayton III: | You haven't begun to be sorry, you hillbilly harlot! |