Actor
Will Lyman
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. ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Aftermath | Kozak
2024 -- The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump | Self - Narrator (voice)
2024 -- Crisis on Campus | Narrator
2024 -- Children of Ukraine | Narrator
2024 -- Democracy on Trial | Narrator
2023 -- Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza | Narrator
2023 -- The Discord Leaks | Narrator
2023 -- Inside the Uvalde Response | Narrator
2023 -- Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power, and the Supreme Court | narrator
2023 -- Putin and the Presidents | Narrator
2022 -- Lies, Politics and Democracy | Self - Narrator (voice)
2022 -- Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack | Self - Narrator (voice)
2022 -- The Power of Big Oil | Narrator (voice)
2021 -- Mother/Android | Captain
2021 -- Shots Fired | Narrator
2021 -- Taliban Takeover | Narrator
2021 -- Boeing's Fatal Flaw | Narrator (voice)
2021 -- America After 9/11 | narrator
2020 -- Christmas on Ice | Mayor Greenwood
2020 -- The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden | Narrator (voice)
2020 -- United States of Conspiracy | Narrator (voice)
2020 -- Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos | narrator
2020 -- Battle for Hong Kong | Narrator
2020 -- Frontline: America's Great Divide | Self - Narrator (voice)
2018 -- UN Sex Abuse Scandal | Narrator (voice)
2017 -- Life on Parole | Narrator
2017 -- Out of Gitmo | narrator
2017 -- Frontline: Divided States of America | Narrator
2017 -- Frontline: President Trump | Narrator
2016 -- The Choice 2016 | Narrator
2016 -- Terror in Europe | self
2016 -- Supplements and Safety | Self - Narrator
2016 -- Netanyahu at War | Self (narrator)
2014 -- Firestone and the Warlord | Self - Narrator
2014 -- The Trouble With Antibiotics | Self / Reporter
2014 -- Losing Iraq (Frontline) | Narrator
2014 -- Separate and Unequal | Narrator
2014 -- United States of Secrets (Part Two): Privacy Lost | Narrator
2014 -- United States of Secrets (Part One): The Program | Narrator
2014 -- Prison State | Himself - Narrator (Voice)
2014 -- Generation Like | Narrator (voice)
2013 -- League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis | Himself - Narrator
2012 -- Last Man Out | Walt Whitman (voice)
2012 -- Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown | Narrator
2011 -- Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory | Narrator
2010 -- The Other Guys | Frontline Narration App
2009 -- The Boneyard | Narrator
2008 -- What Doesn't Kill You | Sully
2008 -- Abuse of Power | Nolan Flannery
2008 -- Iron Man | Award Ceremony Narrator (voice)
2007 -- Fierce People | Documentary Narrator (voice)
2007 -- Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory | Narrator
2007 -- I'm Paige Wilson | Ben Foxworthy
2006 -- Little Children | Narrator (voice)
2006 -- Frontline: The Age of AIDS | Narrator (voice)
2005 -- Our Fathers | Wilson Rogers Jr.
2005 -- The New Asylums | narrator
2004 -- The Secret History of the Credit Card | Narrator
2004 -- American Meltdown | Homeland Chief Utley
2004 -- Golden Road: Today's Senior Drivers | Narrator
2003 -- Truth, War and Consequences | Narrator (voice)
2003 -- Mystic River | FBI Agent Birden
2003 -- Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History | Narrator (voice)
2003 -- Coming Home from Space: The Challenge of Re-Entry | Narrator
2003 -- Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific | Narrator
2003 -- Salt Lake 2002: Stories of Olympic Glory | Narrator
2002 -- Alma Mater |
2002 -- American Porn | Narrator
2001 -- Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory | Narrator
2001 -- Sinking the Lusitania | Narrator
2001 -- Dog Days | Dad
2000 -- Satan in the Suburbs | Narrator (voice)
2000 -- Warriors of the French Foreign Legion | Narrator
1999 -- The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela |
1999 -- The Autumn Heart | Doctor
1999 -- Michael Jordan: His Airness | Narrator
1998 -- Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory | Narrator
1998 -- The Siege | FBI Director
1998 -- Anatomy of a 'Homicide: Life on the Street' | Self - Narrator (voice)
1998 -- A Perfect Murder | Jason Gates
1997 -- Atlanta’s Olympic Glory | Narrator
1997 -- Floating | Van's Father
1997 -- The Bay of Pigs | Narrator (voice)
1996 -- The Crucible | Isaiah Goodkind
1996 -- The Ultimate Guide: T-Rex | Narrator (voice)
1996 -- Celtic Pride | Rich Man
1996 -- Welcome to the Dollhouse | Mr. Edwards
1995 -- The Search for Satan |
1994 -- Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory | Narrator
1994 -- The Mao Years: 1949-1976 | Narrator (voice)
1994 -- Norse America | Self - Narrator (voice)
1993 -- The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald | Narrator (voice) (US version, Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?)
1992 -- Columbus And The Age Of Discovery |
1990 -- Nixon | Narrator (voice)
1989 -- Hostile Takeover | Smolen
1989 -- Crossbow: The Movie | William Tell
1987 -- The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People | Self - Narrator (voice)
1985 -- Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera | narrator (himself)
1985 -- Three Sovereigns for Sarah | Rev. Parris
1984 -- The Mind of a Murderer: Part 2 |
1984 -- The Mind of a Murderer: Part 1 | Narrator
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