Edward HerrmannFilmography

Born:: July 21, 1943 in Washington, D.C.
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: 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...Read More

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Born to Be a Star

Actors: Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Stephen Dorff, Don Johnson, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: Adam Sandler produces Columbia Pictures comedy starring Nick Swardson as a schlub from nowhere who heads out West to become a porn star after finding out his parents were ones themselves. The Hot Chick's Tom Brady directs from a script by Sandler and Swardson. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
The Skeptic

Actors: Tim Daly, Tom Arnold, Zoe Saldana, Edward Herrmann, Andrea Roth

Synopsis: A skeptical attorney moves into a beautiful house with an ominous history, only to experience a series of bizarre and frightening occurrences beyond his comprehension. Bryan Becket (Tim Daly) never believed in the supernatural. When Bryan's aunt dies under mysterious circumstances, he dismisses Read More

4/29/09
Hatching Pete

Actors: Jason Dolley, Mitchel Musso, Tiffany Thornton, Josie Loren, Sean O'Bryan

Synopsis: A teenage zero becomes a high school hero after secretly becoming the school mascot at the behest of his best friend. Unable to carry on the family tradition of being the Hondo High School mascot due to the fact that he's allergic to the costume, teenager Cleatus Poole (Mitchel Musso) quietly Read More

2009
Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square: Live in Concert - Ring Christmas Bells

Actors: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Edward Herrmann

2009
The Face: Jesus in Art

Actors: Mel Gibson, Edward Herrmann, Star Hermann, Stacy Keach, Juliet Mills

Synopsis: The Face: Jesus in Art provides a thorough lesson in art history, exploring the diverse and numerous artistic representations of Jesus Christ rendered over the last 2,000 years. The film discusses the influence these depictions of Christ have had on the world's aesthetic, and also analyzes the Read More

2008
Alzheimer's Disease: Facing the Facts

Actors: Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: Narrated by Edward Herrmann, this documentary examines many different aspects of Alzheimer's disease. In addition to profiling people who suffer from it, and the family members who help care for the afflicted, the filmmakers explain how even though the diagnosis rates for the disease continue to Read More

2008
I Think I Love My Wife

Actors: Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres, Steve Buscemi, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: Actor/comedian Chris Rock directs and stars in this American remake of Eric Rohmer' s classic French comedy Chloe in the Afternoon. Richard Cooper (Rock) is a high-powered investment banker with a beautiful wife and two wonderful children. Though on the surface it would appear that Richard could Read More

3/16/07
Sherman's March

Actors: Edward Herrmann, William Oberst, Jr.

Synopsis: As helmed by Rick King and adapted from the memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman, the 2007 History Channel documentary Sherman's March recounts the details of the famous "march to the sea" by General Sherman in November 1864. The program details Sherman's mission, which involved destroying Read More

2007
How the Earth Was Made

Actors: Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: How could the planet that was once a simmering sea of radioactive, molten rock evolve to become the universe's greatest refuge for human life? This is the question asked by filmmaker Peter Chin as he descends deep into the volcanoes that formed the planet's crust and dives to the bottom of the Read More

2007
Columbus: The Lost Voyage

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Martin Dugard

Synopsis: The History Channel's Columbus: The Last Voyage details one of the lesser known voyages of Christopher Columbus. Far removed from his initial journey to North America, Columbus found himself facing challenges from his preoccupation with finding a passage to the Orient, to the deteriorating Read More

2007
Factory Girl

Actors: Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen, Guy Pearce, Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari, Shawn Hatosy, Jack Huston

Synopsis: The true story of one woman's brief and ultimately tragic flirtation with fame in the 1960s provides the basis for this biographical drama. In 1943, Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) was born to a wealthy and socially prominent family, and she grew up with beauty and money, but also a history of Read More

12/29/06
Relative Strangers

Actors: Ron Livingston, Neve Campbell, Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: A successful psychologist with a picture-perfect family and a best-selling self-help book that's fast racking up sales hires a dogged detective to investigate his brother's claim that he was actually adopted, only to watch as his life falls to pieces in the aftermath in a dark comedy about success Read More

2006
Wedding Daze

Actors: Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher, Joe Pantoliano, Joanna Gleason, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: The romantic comedy Wedding Daze stars Jason Biggs as Anderson, a young man all set to ask his girlfriend to marry him when, during the actual proposal, she dies. After spending a year in a depression, Anderson impulsively asks a waitress named Katie (Ilsa Fisher) to marry him even though they Read More

2006
Gilmore Girls: Season 07

Synopsis: Gilmore Girls begins its seventh season with a new executive producer David S. Rosenthal and a new network (CW, which of course was the successor to the series' former stamping grounds, WB. Alas, Season Seven will turn out to be Season Last: unable to come to financial terms with series stars Read More

2006
The Presidents: The Lives and Legacies of the 43 Leaders [TV Documentary Series]

2005
The French Revolution

Synopsis: In 1789, only a few years after France helped colonists in America win their freedom from Great Britain, a band of Parisian rebels staged an attack on the Bastille, looting needed supplies of food and materiel after the increasingly callous French authorities ignored their pleas. The incident Read More

2005
Gilmore Girls: Season 06

Synopsis: Picking up where the previous season left off, season six of Gilmore Girls begins as Stars Hollow innkeeper Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) takes the initiative in her love life by proposing marriage to taciturn diner owner Luke Danes (Scott Patterson). Although he accepts, his subsequent hemming Read More

2005
Decoding the Past: The Templar Code

Actors: Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: The powerful medieval order known as the Knights Templar have inspired popular fiction like The Da Vinci Code, with speculated links to grand religious conspiracies. In this documentary, historical scholars and experts explore the history and theories surrounding the group, separating truth from Read More

2005
The Aviator

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes. The Aviator follows Hughes (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) as the twentysomething millionaire, having already made a fortune improving Read More

12/17/04
Welcome to Mooseport

Actors: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Marcia Gay Harden, Maura Tierney, Christine Baranski

Synopsis: Hollywood filmmaker Donald Petrie directs the comedy Welcome to Mooseport. Gene Hackman stars as former U.S. President Monroe "The Eagle" Cole. He's retired to the small New England town of Mooseport, ME, in order to write his memoirs and relax. The retirement is put on hold, however, when he's Read More

2/20/04
Nature: Holy Cow

Synopsis: The Emmy award-winning PBS series Nature explores the great impact that the cow has had on the civilization of the human race in this episode. Positing that only cultures that learned to domesticate these animals have survived and prospered, this documentary discusses the many ways that cows have Read More

2004
Bereft

Actors: Vinessa Shaw, Tim Blake Nelson, Tim Daly, Marsha Mason, Michael C. Hall

Synopsis: A woman has a hard time embracing reality after a personal tragedy in this made-for-cable drama. Molly (Vinessa Shaw) is a young widow having a hard time putting her life back together after her husband's death. Molly obsesses over the leftover artifacts of his life, and she believes that his Read More

2004
Ben Franklin

2004
Gilmore Girls: Season 05

Actors: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Edward Herrmann, Jared Padalecki, Liza Weil, Milo Ventimiglia

Synopsis: Season five of Gilmore Girls begins with Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) on the outs with her daughter, Rory (Alexis Bledel), after Rory's brief tryst with her now-married former boyfriend, Dean (Jared Padalecki). Adding to the weight of woe on Lorelai's shoulders is the fact that her parents Read More

2004
Intolerable Cruelty

Actors: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: Joel and Ethan Coen take on the classic battle-of-the-sexes screwball comedy with Intolerable Cruelty. George Clooney plays Miles Massey, a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis . While representing wealthy client Rex Rexroth (Edward Herrmann), Miles meets his match in Read More

10/10/03
Gilmore Girls: Season 04

Actors: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Edward Herrmann, Jared Padalecki, Liza Weil, Milo Ventimiglia

Synopsis: Returning home to Stars Hollow after a whirlwind European trip at the outset of Gilmore Girls' fourth season, single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) is informed that her business partner, Sookie St. James (Melissa McCarthy), is pregnant, while Lorelai's daughter, Rory (Alexis Bledel), prepares Read More

2003
The Emperor's Club

Actors: Kevin Kline, Emile Hirsch, Jesse Eisenberg, Paul Dano, Rishi Mehta

Synopsis: A dedicated teacher learns some important lessons about himself years after he retired from the classroom in this drama. William Hundert (Kevin Kline) is an instructor at St. Benedict's School for Boys, an exclusive private academy on the East Coast where Hundert drills his charges on the moral Read More

11/22/02
The Cat's Meow

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, Edward Herrmann, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Peter Bogdanovich turns his sights on the 1920s for a fictitious look at the possible reasons for the death of silent movie producer Thomas Ince (played here by Cary Elwes) after spending a holiday with media tycoon William Randolph Hearst (played by Edward Herrmann). The film begins and ends on Read More

4/12/02
The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon

Actors: Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: The first in a week-long series of History Channel specials marking the first anniversary of the September 11th "Attack on America," this two-hour documentary concentrates on the destruction of the World Trade Center's twin towers. Combining TV news tapes, interviews, still photos, and computer Read More

2002
Founding Brothers: The Evolution of a Revolution, Part Three - Parties

2002
Founding Brothers: A More Perfect Union, Part One - Leadership

2002
Founding Brothers: A More Perfect Union, Part Two - Government

2002
Founding Brothers: The Evolution of a Revolution, Part Four - Posterity

2002
MDs [TV Series]

Actors: William Fichtner, John Hannah, Jacqueline McKenzie, Leslie Stefanson, Aunjanue Ellis, Jane Lynch

Synopsis: The ad copy for the ABC medical drama MDs promised "doctors who'll bend any rule and take on the system." The series looked and sounded a lot like M*A*S*H, the difference being that it took place in peacetime, and in contemporary San Francisco. William Fichter and John Hannah essayed the Hawkeye Read More

2002
Gilmore Girls: Season 03

Actors: Liza Weil, Jared Padalecki, Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Keiko Agena

Synopsis: As season three of Gilmore Girls gets under way, it seems apparent that single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) must abandon all hope of marrying Christopher Haden (David Sutcliffe), the father of Lorelai's teenaged daughter, Rory (Alexis Bledel). The pain of this realization is mitigated Read More

2002
Double Take

Actors: Orlando Jones, Eddie Griffin, Edward Herrmann, Gary Grubbs, Shawn Elliott

Synopsis: A man trying to run away from trouble finds it follows him in unexpected ways in this action-packed vehicle for comic actors Eddie Griffin and Orlando Jones. Daryl Chase (Jones) is a successful investment banker who handles international accounts for a major New York firm. Chase discovers to his Read More

1/12/01
The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution, Vol. IV

Synopsis: This program is the final installment in a four-part series, produced by the Arts and Entertainment Network, that examines the Impressionist art movement in France. The idea of the free use of color and light to depict scenes of nature and common life was revolutionary indeed. The program looks at Read More

2001
The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution, Vol. I - The Road to Impressionism

Synopsis: This program is the first volume in a four-part series, produced by the Arts and Entertainment Network, that examines the Impressionist art movement in France. The idea of the free use of color and light to depict scenes of nature and common life was revolutionary indeed. The series looks at some Read More

2001
The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution, Vol. III

Synopsis: This program is the third volume in a four-part series, produced by the Arts and Entertainment Network, that examines the Impressionist art movement in France. The idea of the free use of color and light to depict scenes of nature and common life was revolutionary indeed. The program looks at some Read More

2001
The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution, Vol. II - Capturing the Moment

Synopsis: This program is the second volume in a four-part series, produced by the Arts and Entertainment Network, that examines the Impressionist art movement in France. The idea of the free use of color and light to depict scenes of nature and common life was revolutionary indeed. The program looks at Read More

2001
James Dean

Actors: James Franco, Michael Moriarty, Mark Rydell, Edward Herrmann, Valentina Cervi

Synopsis: During his all-too-short career (three starring roles in two years), James Dean helped to radically redefine the way teenagers were portrayed onscreen (and in popular culture in general), and the expressive naturalism of his performances did more to establish the "method" school of acting in the Read More

2001
The Shaft

Actors: James Marshall, Naomi Watts, Eric Thal, Michael Ironside, Edward Herrmann, Dan Hedaya, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: At the Millennium Building in NYC, the elevators have a problem... they just can't stop killing people! Pregnant women, skater dudes -- they're all on the menu for these possessed motorized beasts. As elevator repairman Mark Newman (James Marshal) delves deeper into the mystery, everyone from his Read More

2001
Better Living

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Roy Scheider, Edward Herrmann, Cathrine Corpeny, Deborah Hedwall

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, three sisters try to make the most of their lives in a supremely dysfunctional family. Maryann (Catherine Corpeny), Elizabeth (Deborah Hedwall), and Gail (Wendy Hoopes) were raised by their eccentric mother Nora (Olympia Dukakis), mostly without the help of their father Tom (Roy Scheider Read More

8/4/00
Founding Fathers: A Healthy Constitution

Synopsis: This film is an episode in the four-part series from the History Channel on the founding fathers. The documentary takes a distinctly humanistic approach to the subject. Rather than focusing on the events of the revolution, the film explores the personalities of the men behind them. The story takes Read More

2000
Founding Fathers: You Say You Want a Revolution

Synopsis: This is the final episode in a four-part series on the story of the American Revolution and the men who made it happen. The film gets personal, providing insight into the background and character of each of the major players, from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Jefferson to John Calhoun. They were Read More

2000
Founding Fathers: Taking Liberties

Synopsis: This is another volume in the four-part series from The History Channel on the stories of the architects of the American Revolution. The documentary puts real faces on the men Americans call the "founding fathers." With re-enactments and period art, their stories are brought to life, with voices Read More

2000
Founding Fathers: Rebels...With a Cause

Synopsis: This film is part one of a four-part series that looks at the human dimension of the events of the American Revolution. With re-enactments of key events, and through period artwork, the personal stories of the founding fathers are told. Voices are provided by actors including Burt Reynolds, James Read More

2000
Gilmore Girls: Season 01

Actors: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Keiko Agena

Synopsis: It took a great deal of intestinal fortitude for the WB network to schedule the first of its "prestige" drama series, Gilmore Girls, opposite the NBC powerhouse Friends on Thursday night. But the gamble paid off: a critical success virtually from the outset, Gilmore Girls gradually built up a Read More

2000
Walking Across Egypt

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Mark Hamill, Judge Reinhold, Gail O'Grady

Synopsis: Ellen Burstyn stars in this warm family drama. Mattie (Burstyn) is an aging southern belle who realizes that she's getting too old to go on living in a house. After an odd encounter with the local dogcatcher Lamar (Mark Hamill), Mattie befriends Lamar's bad-egg nephew, Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas Read More

1999
Norman Rockwell: Painting America

Synopsis: Norman Rockwell has always been considered to be synonymous with the idealized image and feel of what it means to be American. For years, he has captured the spirit and feel of the American Family on canvas. This PBS program honors Rockwell for his contributions to American culture and the art Read More

1999
The Korean War: Fire and Ice, Part 1 - Making of a Bloodbath

Synopsis: This four- part documentary made for the History Channel, chronicles the story of America's so called "Forgotten War". As many as two million people died in the Korean War, yet it remains one of the least studied or understood conflicts of modern times. This is truly an irony, for the Korean War Read More

1999
The Korean War: Fire and Ice, Part 3 - Retreat from Hell

Synopsis: This film is Part III of a four-part series on the Korean War, the conflict that first saw the use of Cold War tactics. The powers of East and West became embroiled in a local war to promote political agendas. Archival film footage of front line battles is interspersed with first person eye Read More

1999
The Korean War: Fire and Ice, Part 4 - Bitter Standoff

Synopsis: This is part four, the last in a series of documentaries on the story of the Korean War. The three year conflict comes to an end, but not before over 2 million people have died. Forty-five per cent of United States casualties occurred during armistice negotiations, which resulted in an uneasy Read More

1999
The Homes of FDR

Actors: Blair Brown, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: The documentary Homes of FDR provides a revealing look at the personal connections between President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and three of his homes, discussing ways in which each residence shaped this powerful man. The American President who lead the nation through both the Great Depression and Read More

1999
The Korean War: Fire and Ice, Part 2 - Triumph to Tragedy

Synopsis: This film is part two of a four-part documentary which follows the story of the Korean War, a conflict that took over 2 million military and civilian lives. The Korean War exemplified the politics of the Cold War, in which an essentially local conflict became the stage for a battle of wills Read More

1999
Law & Order: Empire

Synopsis: One of the most highly anticipated episodes of Law & Order's ninth season, "Empire" guest starred Hollywood luminary Julia Roberts (then the girlfriend of series regular Benjamin Bratt) in a story of corporate intrigue and murder. A millionaire dies just after investing in a spectacular new sports Read More

1999
Atomic Train

Actors: Rob Lowe, Kristin Davis, Esai Morales, John Finn, Mena Suvari

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV thriller, a train hauling a cargo of radioactive waste is passing through Colorado when its brakes fail in the Rocky Mountains. The train begins rolling out of control and is headed for Denver with no way to stop it. John Seger (Rob Lowe), an agent with the National Read More

1999
Frank Lloyd Wright

Actors: Philip Bosco, Julie Harris, Sab Shimono

Synopsis: Edward Herrmann narrates this portrait of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, as directed by renowned documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (Lewis & Clark.) The film is an assemblage of photos, film clips, TV appearances (including a 1957 The Mike Wallace Interview), home movies, and more recent footage. Read More

1998
Saint Maybe

Actors: Thomas McCarthy, Mary-Louise Parker, Blythe Danner, Edward Herrmann, Glynnis O'Connor

Synopsis: Based on a best-selling Anne Tyler novel, this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation centers on an unselfish young man who in 1965 sidelines his own considerable ambitions to single-handedly raise his brother's children. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1998
David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 4: A Burning Desire

Synopsis: America comes face to face with its dark side in volume four of David Halberstam's The Fifties. David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 4: A Burning Desire showcases the real story behind the country's Victorian morals. Halberstam exposes citizen's real behavior when he questions sexual taboos. The Read More

1997
David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 5: The Beat

Synopsis: David Halberstam's The Fifties cracks open the decade and exposes it for what it was. In many ways, the time period served as a test ground for an explosive future. In David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 5: The Beat, poetry and music define a generation. A culture of cool emerged in the 1950s Read More

1997
David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 6: The Rage Within and the Road to the Sixties

Synopsis: David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 6: The Rage Within and the Road to the Sixties serves as a catch-all for the Pulitzer prize-winning author's final thoughts. Beginning with the civil unrest that rose in the South, the documentary picks up a number of themes. African-Americans began to fight Read More

1997
David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 2: Selling the American Way

Synopsis: Based on his book of the same name, David Halberstam's The Fifties takes an unflinching look at an often neglected decade. David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 2: Selling the American Way follows the seduction of the American public through the television screen. As if in shock, baby boomers Read More

1997
David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 3: Let's Play House

Synopsis: A decade comes clean in the third installment of Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam's series. Apron strings became shackles for millions of American women during this time. Families, when faced with the reality of having it all, wondered if they really wanted it. David Halberstam's The Read More

1997
Critical Care

Actors: James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Margo Martindale, Jeffrey Wright

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet filmed this hospital satire at a Canadian studio. Alcoholic Dr. Butz (Albert Brooks in old-age makeup) advises younger Dr. Werner Ernst (James Spader) to only treat patients with much insurance. "When the lawyers start crawling all over you," says Butz, "that's when you know you're a Read More

1997
David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 1: The Fear and the Dream

Synopsis: Pulitzer prize-winning writer David Halberstam hosts the six-part documentary David Halberstam's The Fifties. The series disassembles the complicated decade from its paranoid beginning to its violent end. David Halberstam's The Fifties, Vol. 1: The Fear and the Dream introduces the early years Read More

1997
Homicide: Life on the Street: M.E., Myself and I

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: This episode introduces Michelle Forbes in the role of new chief medical examiner Julianna Cox. Descending upon a murder scene being investigated by Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor), the outspoken Cox makes no secret of her contempt for the detectives' methods of investigation. Read More

1996
What Love Sees

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama covers fifteen years, from WW2 to the mid-1950s, in the lives of farm couple Gordon and Jean Holly (Richard Thomas, Annabeth Gish). A daughter of privilege, Jean had married Gordon much against her parents' wishes, whereupon the couple took charge of a ranch in California Read More

1996
Soul of the Game

Actors: Delroy Lindo, Mykelti Williamson, Blair Underwood, Edward Herrmann, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: This original HBO production documents, in dramatic form, the rivalry between Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson to see who would be the first African-American to play Major League Baseball. Paige (played by Delroy Lindo) and Gibson (Mykelti Williamson) are more aggressive about Read More

1996
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain

Synopsis: Thomas Jefferson's eloquence and understanding of the importance of human dignity is forever captured in America's Declaration of Independence. Yet like so many others of his day, Jefferson felt owning slaves was an acceptable practice. This program includes a look at the widely known allegation Read More

1996
Wings: So Long, Frank Lloyd Wrong

Synopsis: Edward Herrmann makes a guest appearance as celebrated architect Y.M. Burg, who deigns to provide a design for Joe (Tim Daly) and Helen's (Crystal Bernard) new house. Though the couple is flattered, they don't really think that a house in the shape of huge seven is entirely suitable for them Read More

1995
Law & Order: Progeny

Synopsis: In this 100th episode of Law & Order, an abortion clinic doctor is murdered. Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Chris Noth) suspect that the man was the victim of a radical pro-life activist group. This places the D.A.'s office in the unenviable position of charging the group's leader Read More

1995
The Face on the Milk Carton

Actors: Kellie Martin, Jill Clayburgh, Edward Herrmann, Sharon Lawrence, Richard Masur

Synopsis: Director Waris Hussein delivers another made-for-television drama, this one based on the popular young-adult book by Caroline B. Cooney. The movie stars Kellie Martin as Janie, a teen who one day sees her own face on the back of a milk carton in an ad for missing children. The movie follows Janie Read More

1995
Nixon

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon Read More

1995
Here Come the Munsters

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Veronica Hamel, Robert Morse

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV comedy adapted from the once-popular TV series The Munsters, Herman Munster (Edward Herrmann) and his wife Lily (Veronica Hamel) learn that they are no longer welcome in Transylvania, so they relocate to California with their children Eddie (Matthew Botuchis) and Marilyn Read More

1995
Foreign Student

Actors: Marco Hofschneider, Robin Givens, Rick Johnson, Charlotte Ross, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: A French boy goes to Virginia and finds love with an intelligent black girl in this nostalgic French drama set in 1955, and based on the popular 1986 novel by Philippe Labro. The movie was filmed in both Paris and Virginia. The film contains many references to blues and jazz, Faulkner, Chandler Read More

1994
Don't Drink the Water

Actors: Mayim Bialik, Michael J. Fox, Edward Herrmann, Julie Kavner, Woody Allen, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: The second film to be made from Woody Allen's successful stage comedy (following a 1969 feature starring Jackie Gleason), Don't Drink the Water is a made-for-television adaptation directed by and starring Allen himself. The fish-out-of-water premise remains the same: Allen plays Walter Hollander Read More

1994
Richie Rich

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, John Larroquette, Edward Herrmann, Jonathan Hyde, Christine Ebersole

Synopsis: A purposely outlandish cartoon created in 1953, Harvey Comics hero Richie Rich finally came to the big screen in 1994, when a boy billionaire was not quite as fanciful an idea. Richie Rich (Macaulay Culkin) is the wealthiest boy in the world, but even though he loves his doting parents, Richard (Edward Herrmann Read More

1994
Born Yesterday

Actors: Melanie Griffith, John Goodman, Don Johnson, Edward Herrmann, Max Perlich

Synopsis: This 1993 remake of the 1950 film Born Yesterday (based on the 1946 Garson Kanin stage play) was retooled as a star vehicle for then-marrieds Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Roughneck self-made millionaire Harry Brock (John Goodman) wants to become a powerful Washington lobbyist. Brock's efforts Read More

1993
A Foreign Field

Actors: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, John Randolph, Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, Geraldine Chaplin, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: In this sentimental comedy, two British World War II veterans (played by English stage and screen veterans Sir Alec Guinness and Leo McKern) have come back to Normandy together to revisit the site of their most harrowing wartime experiences, to look up the gravesite of a fallen comrade, and to Read More

1993
My Boyfriend's Back

Actors: Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, Danny Zorn, Edward Herrmann, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Actor Bob Balaban directed this black comedy for Disney concerning a young zombie's love for a pretty high school girl. Johnny Dingle (Andrew Lowery) is a sweet-natured soul who has been in love with Missy McCloud (Traci Lind) ever since first grade, but he's always been reluctant to ask her out Read More

1993
Hero

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia, Joan Cusack, Kevin J. O'Connor

Synopsis: Stephen Frears' Hero is a contemporary re-working of a Frank Capra-styled fable about a two-bit criminal named Bernie (Dustin Hoffman) who saves several passengers from a plane crash and leaves the scene without being identified, leaving only a lost shoe for identification. One of the passengers Read More

10/2/92
Sweet Poison

Synopsis: In this crime drama, ruthless Bobby Stiles busts out of a maximum security prison and makes a bee-line for his hometown where he plans to get revenge upon his double-crossing brother. Bobby ends up hijacking a married couple and forcing them to take him there. It's a long journey and perceptive Read More

1991
Fire in the Dark

Synopsis: When her Mother breaks her hip and needs full-time care, a married woman is forced to a new understanding of the process of aging and the human spirit. Her Mother becomes resentful and fearful in this powerful affirmation of the dignity of the elderly and the power of a family. ~ Tana Hobart, All Read More

1991
So Proudly We Hail

Synopsis: In this drama, a group of impressionable students become the unwitting subjects for an evil white supremacist's schemes to twist the teachings of a prominent professor to promote a highly subversive form of neo-Nazism. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Hickey and Company

1989
Big Business

Actors: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann, Michele Placido

Synopsis: Thanks to a mix-up at birth, two sets of twins are separated and grow up in radically different social circles. The four baby girls grow up to be Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin-and Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. One of the Midlers is a ruthless New York CEO, while one of the Tomlins is her air-headed Read More

8/19/88
The Return of Hickey

Synopsis: Made for television, Return of Hickey is the sequel to 1987's The Prodigious Mr. William Hicks. Both films were based on Owen Johnson's turn-of-the-century "Lawrenceville Stories." Zach Galligan returns as William "Hickey" Hicks, prep-school prankster supreme. Back at Lawrenceville after a period Read More

1988
Overboard

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Michael Hagerty

Synopsis: This screwball comedy casts real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in a film that finds the latter returning to her roots in a role reminiscent of Private Benjamin (1980). Hawn stars as Joanna Stayton, a snooty heiress who summons carpenter Dean Proffitt (Russell) to her lavish yacht, where Read More

12/16/87
The Lost Boys

Actors: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Kiefer Sutherland, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: In this hit '80s hybrid of the horror movie and the teen flick, a single mom and her two sons become involved with a pack of vampires when they move into an offbeat Northern California town. Lucy (Dianne Wiest) and her sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), move to Santa Carla to live Read More

7/31/87
The Prodigious Mr. William Hicks

Synopsis: This PBS American Playhouse presentation is based on one of the many "Lawrenceville Stories" by Owen Johnson (which also served as the basis of the 1950 MGM feature The Happy Years). Zach Galligan stars as William Hicks, something of a legend at turn-of-century Lawrenceville Boy's School Read More

1987
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

Synopsis: Mark Twain's essay is brought to life with this video telling the Civil War story of a Confederate troop who has not been exposed to the atrocities of war. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1987
The Purple Rose of Cairo

Actors: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Dianne Wiest, Van Johnson

Synopsis: Woody Allen blurs the the boundaries between the real and unreal in this unique comic fantasy. The scene is a small town in the mid-1930s. Trapped in a dead-end job and an abusive marriage, Cecelia (Mia Farrow) regularly seeks refuge in the local movie house. She becomes so enraptured by the Read More

1985
Compromising Positions

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Director Frank Perry brings Susan Issacs' comedic whodunit novel to the screen with Susan Sarandon as a Long Island housewife who tries to escape her deadening suburban life by trying to solve the murder of a philandering local dentist. The dentist, Bruce Fleckstein (Joe Mantegna), is the kind of Read More

1985
Murrow

Synopsis: Daniel J. Travanti plays a glum, no-nonsense Edward R. Murrow in this made-for-TV biopic. We follow Murrow's rise to prominence as America's foremost news commentator between the years 1940 through 1955, beginning with his on-the-spot radio coverage of the bombing of London. After the war, Murrow Read More

1985
The Man with One Red Shoe

Actors: Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: In this rather routine adaptation of the French hit, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Richard (Tom Hanks) is a bicycling violinist who is innocently drawn into a nasty struggle for control of the CIA. Cooper (Dabney Coleman) is the unscrupulous current head honcho of the notorious U.S. Read More

1985
Mrs. Soffel

Actors: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife Kate (Diane Keaton) often comes by to read the Bible aloud to the inmates, despite her fragile health. While making her Read More

1984
Concealed Enemies

1984
Memorial Day

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, Mike Farrell stars as an attorney who finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam, including Robert Walden and Edward Herrmann. The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved. ~ Jason Read More

1983
A Little Sex

Actors: Tim Matheson, Kate Capshaw, Edward Herrmann, John Glover, Joan Copeland

Synopsis: In this feature comedy, a womanizer (Tim Matheson) marries his live-in girlfriend (Kate Capshaw) only to quickly resume his wicked ways. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
The Gift of Life

Synopsis: The Gift of Life is a non-sensational study of surrogate pregnancy. Susan Dey stars as Joleen Sutton, a woman with a husband and two kids who agrees to be artificially inseminated on behalf of another woman. Since the surrogate mother concept is somewhat cloudy on a legal basis, Joleen faces Read More

1982
Annie

Actors: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Aileen Quinn, Ann Reinking, Bernadette Peters

Synopsis: This family classic is adapted from the Broadway musical, which was based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. During the Great Depression in New York City, a plucky red-haired scrapper named Annie (Aileen Quinn) is the voice of hope for her fellow orphans who live under the supervision of Read More

1981
Death Valley

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Catherine Hicks, Stephen McHattie, Wilford Brimley, Peter Billingsley

Synopsis: While traveling across Arizona with his divorced mother and her new boyfriend, a precocious young boy stumbles onto a grisly murder scene, placing the three of them in mortal danger at the hands of a pair of good-ol'-boy twin psychopaths. It's hard to tell whether the producers of this film Read More

1981
The Electric Grandmother

Synopsis: The Electric Grandmother was the second TV adaptation of Ray Bradbury's I Sing the Body Electric (the first was presented on The Twilight Zone in 1962). Maureen Stapleton plays the title character, a custom-made android purchased by widowed Edward Hermann. "Grandma", a magical creation who can Read More

1981
Harry's War

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Geraldine Page, Karen Grassle, David Ogden Stiers, Salome Jens

Synopsis: Harry's War is a "feel good" movie--and you'd better feel good or else. Edward Herrmann plays an postman whose aunt (Geraldine Page) is victimized by the Internal Revenue Service. Uncle Sam has made an error on her return, insisting that the poor old pensioner must pay 190 grand in back taxes. Try Read More

1981
Reds

Actors: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed American Communist John Reed (who is the only US citizen buried in the Kremlin). The film is an effort to humanize a political movement that has previously been depicted on Read More

1981
Mark Twain Classics: Private History of a Campaign That Failed

1981
M*A*S*H: Heal Thyself

Synopsis: Col. Potter (Harry Morgan) and Charles (David Ogden Stiers) prove to be difficult patients when both are quarantined with the mumps. It is particularly irksome for Charles, who fears that his temporary replacement Newsome (Edward Herrman), who has toted up an impressive combat surgery record, will Read More

1980
Freedom Road

Synopsis: Muhammad Ali made his TV-movie dramatic debut in this adaptation of Howard Fast's novel Freedom Road. Though some of the names are changed, the story concerns the true-life efforts of senators Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens to bring political order and racial equality to the post-Civil War Read More

1979
Sorrows of Gin

Synopsis: Based on a short story by John Cheever, this is a movie about an eight-year-old girl in a dysfunctional family situation which leads to her becoming a runaway. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Take Down

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Kathleen Lloyd, Lorenzo Lamas, Maureen McCormick

Synopsis: Professorial high-school teacher Ed Branish (Edward Herrmann) reluctantly accepts a coaching job with his school's eternally losing wrestling team. Mr. Branish decides that his dispirited team needs a star player to rally enthusiasm. Muscle-bound Nick Kilvitus (Lorenzo Lamas) is resistant to Mr. Read More

1979
Portrait of a Stripper

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama tells the story of how a nice young widow becomes a stripper. She only does it because she desperately needs money to support her young son. When her son's grandfather finds out, he immediately starts a custody battle to take the son away from her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

1979
The North Avenue Irregulars

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Cloris Leachman, Susan Clark, Karen Valentine, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: One of the bigger non-cartoon moneymakers for Disney in the 1970s, The North Avenue Irregulars is predicated on the premise of the "Neighborhood Watch" system. Priest Michael Hill (Edward Herrmann), newly arrived on North Avenue, decides to buck the patriarchal notions of his superiors by Read More

1979
The Betsy

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, this is the story of Loren Hardeman, Sr., a Midwestern automobile manufacturer (Lord Olivier) who pins his future on The Betsy, a "wonder car" named after his daughter (Kathleen Beller). The Betsy is designed to last practically forever, which doesn't rest Read More

1978
Brass Target

Actors: Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Patrick McGoohan

Synopsis: What if General George S. Patton didn't die in a car accident, as history tells us, but at the hands of a paid assassin? That's the premise of Brass Target, another in a series of espionage thrillers, like The Eagle Has Landed, that speculates on the fates of real-life figures from World War II. Robert Vaughn Read More

1978
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

Actors: Ramon Bieri, Robert Burr, Blythe Danner, Edward Herrmann, Patricia Neal

Synopsis: Based on the 1976 autobiography My Luke and I by Eleanor Gehrig and Joseph Durso, Love Affair: The Eleanor & Lou Gehrig Story provides a slightly different slant on the events previously dramatized on film as Pride of the Yankees (1942). The story is told in flashback from the point of view of the Read More

1977
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: First aired March 13, 1977, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years was the brilliant follow-up to the equally praiseworthy 1976 TV movie Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years. The film is framed in a flashback experienced by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Jane Alexander) while accompanying the Read More

1977
Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Jane Alexander, Linda Kelsey, Rosemary Murphy, Linda Purl

Synopsis: The winner of 11 Emmy awards, the made-for-TV Eleanor and Franklin stars Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt. The film traces the first four decades of the lives of cousins Franklin and Eleanor, beginning with their marriage in 1905. Conflicts loom in Read More

1976
The Great Waldo Pepper

Actors: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: Robert Redford plays Waldo Pepper, a former World War I pilot who exaggerates his accomplishments in order to impress the rabble. After a brief rivalry with air-show entrepreneur Axel Olsson (Bo Svenson), Pepper teams with Axel to barnstorm all over the Midwest; later, after a series of unexpected Read More

1975
The Great Gatsby

Actors: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: This third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel was one of the most hyped movies of the summer of 1974. Robert Redford stars as self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, who uses his vast (and implicitly ill-gotten) fortune to buy his way into Long Island society. Most of all, Gatsby Read More

1974
The Paper Chase

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: This filmization of John Jay Osborn Jr.'s novel Paper Chase ended up one of the surprise hits of the 1973-74 movie season. Timothy Bottoms stars as the Minnesotan Hart, a brilliant but naive first-year student at the Harvard Law School. Like most of his fellow aspiring attorneys, Hart is in Read More

1973
The Day of the Dolphin

Actors: Pat Englund, George C. Scott, Trish VanDevere, Paul Sorvino, Fritz Weaver, Jon Korkes

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry team up again (after collaborating on The Graduate and Catch-22) for this adaptation of Robert Merle's best-selling adventure novel concerning dolphins who become pawns in a plot to kill the president. George C. Scott plays Dr. Jake Terrell, a Read More

1973
Mortadella

Actors: Sophia Loren

Synopsis: The well-known short-story writer Ring Lardner, Jr. wrote the screenplay for La Mortadella, an Italian/French production with mostly English dialogue. The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Madelena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country Read More

12/22/71
The Myth of the Liberal Media
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