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Edward Herrmann
Edward Kirk Herrmann (born July 21, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated American television and film actor. He is best known for his role as Richard Gilmore in Gilmore Girls.
Herrmann was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Jean Eleanor (née O'Connor) and John Anthony Herrmann....
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A Foreign Field
A Foreign Field (1993) is a motion picture about British and American World War II veterans returning to the beaches of Normandy as old men. It is more a drama than a comedy, although it combines aspects of both. It was directed by Charles Sturridge...
Don't Drink the Water
Don't Drink the Water is a 1994 television movie written and directed by Woody Allen, based on a play he wrote in the 1960s. This is the second filmed version of the play, after a 1969 theatrical version, starring Jackie Gleason, left Allen...
Overboard
Overboard is a movie starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell that was released in the fall of 1987. It was directed by Garry Marshall.
Joanna Stayton (Goldie Hawn) is the pampered wife of pretentious socialite Grant Stayton III (Edward Herrmann). When...
Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday is a 1993 remake of the 1950 film based on Born Yesterday, a play by Garson Kanin. The film stars Melanie Griffith, John Goodman and Don Johnson. It was adapted by Douglas McGrath and directed by Luis Mandoki.
A businessman, on a trip...
Reds
Reds is a 1981 epic film that was co-written, produced, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty. It centers on the life of John Reed, the revolutionary communist, journalist, and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days that...
The Great Waldo Pepper
The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 drama film about a discontented pilot played by Robert Redford. The story takes place in the years 1926-1931.
Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) feels he has missed out on the glory of aerial combat in World War I after...
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 film written and directed by Woody Allen. Inspired by Sherlock, Jr., Hellzapoppin' and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, it is the tale of a film character who leaves the film and enters the real...
The Day of the Dolphin
The Day of the Dolphin is a 1973 science fiction-thriller film directed by Mike Nichols and starring George C. Scott. Loosely based on the 1967 novel, Un animal doué de raison (A Sentient Animal), by French writer Robert Merle, the screenplay was...
Intolerable Cruelty
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) is a romantic comedy directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cedric the Entertainer and Billy Bob Thornton. It was released by Universal Pictures.
Donovan Donaly (Geoffrey Rush),...
The Cat's Meow
The Cat's Meow is a drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. The screenplay by Steven Peros is based on his play of the same title, which was inspired by the mysterious death of film mogul Thomas H. Ince.
It is November 15, 1924, and among those...
The Electric Grandmother
The Electric Grandmother is a television movie, released in 1982, based on the short story "I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury. It stars Maureen Stapleton and Edward Herrmann and was directed by Noel Black. Bradbury's story was previously...
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Eleanor and Franklin
Eleanor and Franklin (1976) is a television movie released on January 11, 1976, starring Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt. It is the 1st part in a two-part biopic based on Joseph P. Lash's...
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Atomic Train
Atomic Train is a 1999 action movie about an accidental nuclear explosion destroying the city of Denver. It was originally broadcast on NBC as a two-part miniseries.
A waste disposal company has a Russian nuclear bomb to transport, and an employee...
Annie
Annie is a 1982 musical film based upon the 1977 stage musical of the same name, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. It was released in 1982 by Columbia Pictures.
The film version was directed by...
The Lost Boys
The Lost Boys is a 1987 American coming of age action-horror film about two young Arizonans who move to California and end up fighting a gang of teenage vampires.
Directed by Joel Schumacher, the film stars Jason Patric, Corey Haim, and Kiefer...
Here Come The Munsters
Here Come the Munsters is a telefilm that aired on Fox October 31, 1995. It starred Edward Herrmann, Christine Taylor and Veronica Hamel. It included cameos from original Munsters surviving cast members Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Butch Patrick, and...
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Sherman's March
Sherman's March (2007) is an American Civil War television documentary first aired on the History Channel. The film is directed by Rick King and the executive producer is Jason Williams. The production combines narration with reenacted dramatic...
The North Avenue Irregulars
The North Avenue Irregulars is a 1979 Disney film starring Edward Hermann, Barbara Harris and Susan Clark. It was based on original work by Albert Fay Hill, as adapted by Don Tait. The film was released as Hill's Angels in the United Kingdom,...
Big Business
Big Business is a 1988 American farcical comedy film starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. Produced by Touchstone Pictures and loosely based on The Comedy of Errors (1589—1594) by William Shakespeare.
The movie revolves around two pairs of...
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Man With One Red Shoe is a 1985 comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti. It's a remake of a 1972 French film Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire starring Pierre Richard and Mireille Darc. The film included small excerpts from the first three...
The Emperor's Club
The Emperor's Club is a 2002 film that tells the story of a prep school teacher and his students. Based on Ethan Canin's short story "The Palace Thief," the film is directed by Michael Hoffman and stars Kevin Kline. The movie is set at a fictional...
The Betsy
The Betsy is a 1978 film made by the Harold Robbins International Company and released by Allied Artists. It was directed by Daniel Petrie and produced by Robert R. Weston and Emanuel L. Wolf with Jack Grossberg as associate producer. The screenplay...
My Boyfriend's Back
My Boyfriend's Back is a 1993 comedy film.
The film is about a teenage boy, Johnny Dingle, who dies but comes back from the dead as a zombie after the teenage girl he's in love with, Missy McCloud, promises him a date.
The title is a reference to a...
A Little Sex
A Little Sex is a 1982 comedy film. It was directed by Bruce Paltrow and written by Robert De Laurentiis. A young married man vainly attempts to remain faithful to his wife in the face of near-irresistible temptations. His personal struggles cause...
Richie Rich
Richie Rich (sometimes stylized Ri¢hie Ri¢h) is a 1994 live-action film adaptation of the Harvey Comics comic book character Richie Rich. Directed by Donald Petrie, the film stars Macaulay Culkin as the title character (this would be his final movie...
Down
Down is a 2001 horror film about a killer elevator, starring James Marshall and Naomi Watts. The film is also known as The Shaft, which is the name used for the United States DVD release.
Watts plays the role of pushy journalist Jennifer Evans, and...
Compromising Positions
Compromising Positions is a 1985 film released by Paramount. The screenplay, by Susan Isaacs, was adapted from her 1978 detective novel. The plot concerns a Long Island housewife and former journalist who becomes involved in a murder investigation....
James Dean
James Dean is a 2001 biographical television movie based on the life of the actor of the same name. James Franco plays James Dean under the direction of Mark Rydell, who chronicles Dean's rise from a struggling actor to an A-list movie star in 1950s...
Take Down
Take Down is a 1979 sports movie about an unqualified teacher who finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school seniors form a wrestling team in a last ditch effort to end a 9-year losing streak against a rival school...
Soul of the Game
Soul of the Game is a 1996 made-for-television movie about Negro league baseball.
It starred Blair Underwood as Jackie Robinson, Delroy Lindo as Satchel Paige and Mykelti Williamson as Josh Gibson. The film depicts Paige and Gibson as the pitching...
Death Valley
Death Valley (1982) is a horror film starring Catherine Hicks, Edward Herrmann, Peter Billingsley, Stephen McHattie, Mary Steelsmith & Earl W. Smith. It was directed by Dick Richards and written by Richard Rothstein. It centered on a divorcee and...
Better Living
Duane Hopwood is a 1998 film featured in the Hamptons International Film Festival. It stars Roy Scheider and Olympia Dukakis, and includes Edward Herrmann.
Bereft
Bereft is a 2004 film written by Peter Ferland and directed by Tim Daly and J. Clark Mathis. Bereft is the first film Daly directed.
Set in Vermont, Bereft tells the story of a young widow haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to...
Vendetta
Vendetta is an HBO original movie based on actual events that took place in New Orleans on March 14, 1891. Eighteen Italian-Americans were falsely accused of the murder of the police chief. After their acquittal, 11 of them were shot or hung in one...
The Aviator
The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama film, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film, which centers on the life of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, draws largely upon a biography by Charles Higham. The film...
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1974 American romantic drama film distributed by Newdon Productions and Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by David Merrick, from a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola based on the novel of the same...
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Double Take
Double Take is a 2001 action/comedy film starring Eddie Griffin and Orlando Jones.
Tagline: One big shot. One big mouth. The switch is on.
Daryl Chase (Jones) is a successful investment banker who handles international accounts for a major New York...
Nixon
Nixon is a 1995 American biographical film directed by Oliver Stone for Cinergi Pictures that tells the story of the political and personal life of former US President Richard Nixon, played by Anthony Hopkins. The film portrays Nixon as a complex...
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Walking Across Egypt
Walking Across Egypt is a 1999 coming-of-age drama film shot in the state of Florida. The movie is based on a novel of the same name by author Clyde Edgerton. It was directed by veteran director Arthur Allan Seidelman. The screenplay was written by...
Harry's War
Harry's War is a feature length independent film (98 minutes) from Taft International Pictures, released in 1981. It was filmed in St. George, Utah, USA. It stars Edward Hermann, Geraldine Page, Karen Grassle, David Ogden Stiers, Elisha Cook and...
Relative Strangers
Relative Strangers is a 2006 comedy film.
34 year old psychologist, Richard Clayton (Ron Livingston) parents reveal to him that he was adopted. He then sets out to find out who his biological parents are, but disaster ensues when it turns out that...
