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. Hermann died from brain cancer, Wednesday, December 31, 2014, in a hospital in New York City.
The Aviator
Relative Strangers
Mrs. Soffel
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Great Waldo Pepper
The Great Gatsby
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
The Lost Boys
James Dean
Wedding Daze
Don't Drink the Water
Overboard
Hero
Nixon
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Intolerable Cruelty
Factory Girl
Big Business
The Presidents
American Dad!
H.I.M.Y.M.
Gilmore Girls
30 Rock
Law & Order
MASH
St. Elsewhere
Nature with George Page
Perception
The Good Wife
Greys Anatomy
CSI: Las Vegas
Crossing Jordan
Wings
Tom Goes to the Mayor
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Practice
Homicide: Life on the Street
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
