Will Lyman

William Remington Lyman | William Lyman

About the person

Career:

Acting

Date of birth:

1948-05-2078

Place of birth:

Burlington, Vermont, USA

Gender:

Male

Popularity:

Biography

William Lyman (born May 20, 1948) is an American actor. Being known for his polished, resonant voice, Lyman has narrated the PBS series Frontline since its second season in 1984 and played William Tell in the action/adventure television series Crossbow.

Filmography

Rating by year

The War Cabinet
Narrrator
2026-05-26
10.01
The Deal: Trump Bukele & The Gangs of El Salvador
Narrator (voice)
2026-04-07
0.00
Contaminated: The Carpet Industry's Toxic Legacy
Narrator
2026-02-03
0.00
The Rise of RFK Jr.
Narrator
2025-10-21
0.00
Trump's Power & the Rule of Law
Narrator (voice over)
2025-07-15
8.54
The Arborist
Arthur Randolph
2025-04-25
4.012
The Electric State
Documentary Narrator (voice)
2025-03-07
6.51,681
Battle for Tibet
Narrator
2025-02-18
0.00
Aftermath
Joe Kozak
2024-09-27
6.2187
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024-09-24
7.67
Crisis on Campus
Narrator
2024-06-11
0.00
Children of Ukraine
Narrator
2024-04-16
10.01
Democracy on Trial
Narrator
2024-01-30
9.02
Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza
Narrator
2023-12-19
8.01
The Discord Leaks
Narrator
2023-12-12
0.00
Inside the Uvalde Response
Narrator
2023-12-05
0.00
Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power, and the Supreme Court
narrator
2023-05-09
0.00
Putin and the Presidents
Narrator
2023-01-31
6.02
Lies, Politics and Democracy
Self - Narrator (voice)
2022-09-06
7.02
Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack
Self - Narrator (voice)
2022-08-02
0.00
The Power of Big Oil
Narrator (voice)
2022-04-19
0.00
The Power of Big Oil
Narrator (voice)
2022-04-19
0.00
Mother/Android
Captain
2021-12-17
5.8841
Shots Fired
Narrator
2021-10-26
7.01
Taliban Takeover
Narrator
2021-10-12
0.00
Boeing's Fatal Flaw
Narrator (voice)
2021-09-14
8.02
America After 9/11
narrator
2021-09-07
0.00
China's COVID Secrets
Self - Narrator
2021-02-02
0.00
Animaniacs
Narrator (voice)
2020-11-20
8.4590
Christmas on Ice
Mayor Greenwood
2020-10-23
6.989
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
Narrator (voice)
2020-09-22
7.210
United States of Conspiracy
Narrator (voice)
2020-07-28
3.03
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Self - Narrator (voice)
2020-07-14
8.01
Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos
Narrator
2020-02-18
7.58
Battle for Hong Kong
Narrator
2020-02-11
5.01
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
Self - Narrator (voice)
2020-01-13
0.00
UN Sex Abuse Scandal
Narrator (voice)
2018-01-01
7.54
Life on Parole
Narrator
2017-07-18
7.01
Iraq Uncovered
Narrator
2017-03-21
0.00
Out of Gitmo
narrator
2017-02-27
0.00
Hunting ISIS
Narrator
2017-01-31
0.00
Divided States of America
Narrator
2017-01-17
7.01
Frontline: President Trump
Narrator
2017-01-03
7.02
The Choice 2016
Narrator
2016-11-05
5.86
Terror in Europe
self
2016-10-18
0.00
Business of Disaster
Narrator (voice)
2016-05-24
0.00
Saudi Arabia Uncovered
Self - Narrator (voice)
2016-03-22
6.511
Chasing Heroin
Narrator
2016-02-23
0.00
Supplements and Safety
Self - Narrator
2016-01-19
0.00
Netanyahu at War
Self (narrator)
2016-01-05
8.01
Obama at War
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015-12-08
0.00
Taliban Hunters
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015-11-17
0.00
Isis in Afghanistan
2015-11-17
0.00
Outbreak
Self - Narrator
2015-05-05
5.01
The Fight for Yemen
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015-04-07
0.00
Firestone and the Warlord
Self - Narrator
2014-11-18
0.00
The Trouble with Antibiotics
Self - Reporter
2014-10-14
0.00
Losing Iraq
Narrator
2014-07-29
8.03
Separate and Unequal
Narrator
2014-07-15
0.00
Prison State
Himself - Narrator (Voice)
2014-04-29
8.02
Generation Like
Narrator (voice)
2014-02-18
7.04
A Death in St. Augustine
Narrator (voice)
2013-11-26
6.01
League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis
Himself - Narrator
2013-10-08
7.58
The Suicide Plan
Narrator
2012-11-13
0.00
Last Man Out
Walt Whitman (voice)
2012-05-05
0.00
Money, Power & Wall Street
Self - Narrator
2012-04-24
0.00
Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
Narrator
2012-02-28
9.02
The Anthrax Files
2011-10-11
0.00
Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory
Narrator
2011-04-28
5.26
The Other Guys
Frontline Narration App
2010-08-06
6.34,600
Behind Taliban Lines
2010-02-23
0.00
What Doesn't Kill You
Sully
2008-12-12
6.0225
The War Briefing
Narrator
2008-10-28
1.01
Abuse of Power
Nolan Flannery
2008-08-16
4.04
Young & Restless in China
2008-06-17
9.01
Iron Man
Award Ceremony Narrator (voice)
2008-04-30
7.728,247
Rules of Engagement
Narrator
2008-02-19
0.00
Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe
Moe Fresno
2007-12-31
5.52
On Our Watch
Narrator
2007-11-20
0.00
Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory
Narrator
2007-07-05
6.02
Endgame
Self - Narrator (voice)
2007-06-19
5.01
Fierce People
Documentary Narrator (voice)
2006-10-26
6.1129
Little Children
Narrator (voice)
2006-10-06
7.11,161
Return of the Taliban
Self - Narrator (voice)
2006-10-03
0.00
The Age of AIDS
Narrator (voice)
2006-05-30
10.01
Is It Real?
Narrator (voice)
2006-01-21
5.36
Commander in Chief
Teddy Bridges
2005-09-27
7.640
Commander in Chief
Teddy Bridges (uncredited)
2005-09-27
7.640
Our Fathers
Wilson Rogers Jr.
2005-05-11
6.511
The New Asylums
narrator
2005-05-10
0.00
The Secret History of the Credit Card
Narrator
2004-11-23
7.02
American Meltdown
Homeland Chief Utley
2004-06-06
5.216
Golden Road: Today's Senior Drivers
Narrator
2004-01-01
0.00
Truth, War and Consequences
Narrator (voice)
2003-10-09
0.00
Mystic River
FBI Agent Birden
2003-10-08
7.77,503
Threat Matrix
Roger Atkins
2003-09-18
6.17
Coming Home from Space: The Challenge of Re-Entry
Narrator
2003-06-25
0.00
Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific
Narrator
2003-06-02
10.01
Salt Lake City 2002: Stories of Olympic Glory
Narrator
2003-01-07
6.57
American Porn
Narrator
2002-02-07
5.01
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Roger Jameson
2001-09-30
7.6377
Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory
Narrator
2001-08-26
7.33
Sinking the Lusitania
Narrator
2001-03-27
7.02
Dog Days
Dad
2001-01-01
10.01
Ed
Gus McGraw
2000-10-08
7.752
Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
Self - Narrator(voice)
2000-07-16
9.01
Warriors of the French Foreign Legion
Narrator
2000-01-01
10.01
Satan in the Suburbs
Narrator (voice)
2000-01-01
7.02
The West Wing
Narrator (voice)
1999-09-22
8.3581
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
1999-05-25
0.00
The Autumn Heart
Doctor
1999-01-27
6.03
Michael Jordan: His Airness
Narrator
1999-01-01
7.120
Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory
Narrator
1998-12-20
6.36
The Siege
FBI Director
1998-11-06
6.31,504
Anatomy of a 'Homicide: Life on the Street'
Self - Narrator (voice)
1998-11-04
7.52
A Perfect Murder
Jason Gates
1998-06-05
6.61,576
Atlanta’s Olympic Glory
Narrator
1997-12-07
5.36
Floating
Van's Father
1997-02-20
6.416
The Bay of Pigs
Narrator (voice)
1997-01-01
8.01
The Crucible
Isaiah Goodkind
1996-11-27
6.6559
NBA at 50
Self - Narrator
1996-11-01
6.54
The Ultimate Guide: T-Rex
Narrator (voice)
1996-04-21
10.01
The Ultimate Guide
Narrator
1996-04-21
0.00
Celtic Pride
Rich Man
1996-04-19
5.3155
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Mr. Edwards
1996-03-22
7.1504
The Search for Satan
1995-10-24
8.01
Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory
Narrator
1994-11-27
5.47
Part Two: The Mao Years 1949–1976
Narrator (voice)
1994-04-13
8.02
Norse America
Self - Narrator (voice)
1994-03-15
0.00
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Narrator (voice) (US version, Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?)
1993-11-09
7.52
The Arming of Saudi Arabia
Narrator
1993-02-16
0.00
Columbus and the Age of Discovery
Self - Narrator (voice)
1992-07-04
0.00
Nixon
Narrator (voice)
1990-10-15
0.00
Law & Order
Victor Conner
1990-09-13
7.3693
Hull High
John Deerborn
1990-08-20
6.54
The Simpsons
Narrator (voice)
1989-12-17
8.010,842
Hostile Takeover
Smolen
1989-09-01
4.96
Crossbow: The Movie
William Tell
1989-01-01
6.33
American Experience
Self - Narrator (voice)
1988-10-04
6.548
Crossbow
William Tell
1987-08-30
6.310
The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People
Self - Narrator (voice)
1987-07-17
0.00
Hostage in Iran
Narrator
1986-01-21
0.00
Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
narrator (himself)
1985-10-14
9.02
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Rev. Parris
1985-05-01
0.00
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Rev. Parris
1985-01-05
7.01
Murder, She Wrote
Allan Wooster
1984-09-30
7.5448
The Mind of a Murderer: Part 2
Narrator
1984-03-26
0.00
The Mind of a Murderer: Part 1
Narrator
1984-03-19
7.01
Vietnam: A Television History
Narrator
1983-10-04
9.52
NOVA
Narrator
1974-03-03
7.0139
NOVA
Narrator (voice)
1974-03-03
7.0139
NOVA
Self - Narrator (voice)
1974-03-03
7.0139