Edward Herrmann, the actor who gained fame playing a young FDR on TV but was known more recently as the patriarch of “ Gilmore Girls,” died Dec. 31 in New York. He was 71.

Edward Herrmann, the actor who gained fame playing a young FDR on TV but was known more recently as the patriarch of “ Gilmore Girls,” has died. He was 71. Herrmann, who co-starred with Jane Alexander ...

Herrmann famously played affable socialite Richard Gilmore in Gilmore Girls from 2000 to 2007, and also had memorable roles in the films The Lost Boys and The Purple Rose of Cairo.