FrameThrower · Actors · Edward Herrmann
Edward Herrmann
3 films · 296 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1987–2006
Born 21 July 1943 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA · died 31 December 2014
Edward Kirk Herrmann 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.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 296 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1987–2006
- Primetime Emmy Award1999
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series1999
- Tony Awards1976
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play1976
- Fulbright Scholarship
How their films are shot
Measured across 296 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Edward takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 60% of their frames are day, 53% natural — the look of the work Edward takes.
Time of day
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 296 frames from Edward Herrmann's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.