Edward Herrmann Filmography

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

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

Factory Girl

Actors: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ben Franklin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gilmore Girls: Season 03

Actors: Jared Padalecki, Milo Ventimiglia, Liza Weil, 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

MDs [TV Series]

Actors: William Fichtner, John Hannah, Leslie Stefanson, Jacqueline McKenzie, 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

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

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

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

The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution, Vol. II

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

The Impressionists: The Other French Revolution, Vol. I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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