Before becoming an acclaimed narrator of many documentaries, the narrator of TR: An American Lion (2003), Edward Herrmann's breakthrough, or even signature, acting role was as a very famous cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt. The role was as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the much honored mini-series, Eleanor and Franklin (1976) and sequel mini-series, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977). Hermann was to play FDR again in Annie (1982).