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Will Lyman

Acting · Born 1948-05-20 · Burlington, Vermont, USA

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.

Credits · 121

The War Cabinet

2026 · Narrrator

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law

2025 · Narrator (voice over)

2025 · Arthur Randolph

The Electric State

2025 · Documentary Narrator (voice)

2024 · Joe Kozak

The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump

2024 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Children of Ukraine

2024 · Narrator

Democracy on Trial

2024 · Narrator

Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza

2023 · Narrator

Putin and the Presidents

2023 · Narrator

Lies, Politics and Democracy

2022 · Self - Narrator (voice)

The Power of Big Oil

2022 · Narrator (voice)

2021 · Captain

2021 · Narrator

Boeing's Fatal Flaw

2021 · Narrator (voice)

2020 · Narrator (voice)

Christmas on Ice

2020 · Mayor Greenwood

The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden

2020 · Narrator (voice)

United States of Conspiracy

2020 · Narrator (voice)

Once Upon a Time in Iraq

2020 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos

2020 · Narrator

Battle for Hong Kong

2020 · Narrator

America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump

2020 · Self - Narrator (voice)

UN Sex Abuse Scandal

2018 · Narrator (voice)

2017 · Narrator

Divided States of America

Divided States of America

2017 · Narrator

Frontline: President Trump

Frontline: President Trump

2017 · Narrator

The Choice 2016

2016 · Narrator

Business of Disaster

2016 · Narrator (voice)

Saudi Arabia Uncovered

2016 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Supplements and Safety

2016 · Self - Narrator

Netanyahu at War

2016 · Self (narrator)

2015 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Taliban Hunters

Taliban Hunters

2015 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Isis in Afghanistan

2015 · Self - Narrator

The Fight for Yemen

2015 · Self - Narrator (voice)

2014 · Narrator

United States of Secrets (Part Two): Privacy Lost

2014 · Narrator

United States of Secrets

2014 · Narrator

2014 · Himself - Narrator (Voice)

Generation Like

2014 · Narrator (voice)

A Death in St. Augustine

2013 · Narrator (voice)

League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis

2013 · Himself - Narrator

Money, Power & Wall Street

2012 · Self - Narrator

Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

2012 · Narrator

Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory

2011 · Narrator

2010 · Frontline Narration App

2009 · Narrator

What Doesn't Kill You

The War Briefing

2008 · Narrator

2008 · Nolan Flannery

Young & Restless in China

2008 · Award Ceremony Narrator (voice)

Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe

2007 · Moe Fresno

Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory

2007 · Narrator

2007 · Self - Narrator (voice)

I'm Paige Wilson

I'm Paige Wilson

2007 · Ben Foxworthy

Frontline - News War

Little Children

2006 · Narrator (voice)

The Age of AIDS

2006 · Narrator (voice)

2006 · Documentary Narrator (voice)

2006 · Narrator (voice)

Commander in Chief

2005 · Teddy Bridges

2005 · Wilson Rogers Jr.

The Secret History of the Credit Card

2004 · Narrator

American Meltdown

2004 · Homeland Chief Utley

2003 · FBI Agent Birden

2003 · Roger Atkins

Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific

2003 · Narrator

Salt Lake City 2002: Stories of Olympic Glory

2003 · Narrator

2002 · Narrator

The Day Reagan Was Shot

2001 · Narrator (voice)

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001 · Roger Jameson

Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory

2001 · Narrator

Sinking the Lusitania

Sinking the Lusitania

2001 · Narrator

2000 · Gus McGraw

Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain

Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain

2000 · Self - Narrator(voice)

Warriors of the French Foreign Legion

2000 · Narrator

Satan in the Suburbs

2000 · Narrator (voice)

1999 · Narrator (voice)

The Autumn Heart

Michael Jordan: His Airness

1999 · Narrator

Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory

1998 · Narrator

1998 · FBI Director

Anatomy of a 'Homicide: Life on the Street'

1998 · Self - Narrator (voice)

A Perfect Murder

1998 · Jason Gates

Atlanta’s Olympic Glory

1997 · Narrator

1997 · Van's Father

The Bay of Pigs

1997 · Narrator (voice)

1996 · Isaiah Goodkind

1996 · Self - Narrator

The Ultimate Guide: T-Rex

1996 · Narrator (voice)

The Ultimate Guide

1996 · Narrator

1996 · Rich Man

Welcome to the Dollhouse

1996 · Mr. Edwards

The Search for Satan

Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory

1994 · Narrator

Part Two: The Mao Years 1949–1976

1994 · Narrator (voice)

The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald

1993 · Narrator (voice) (US version, Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?)

1992 · Swanson

Columbus and the Age of Discovery

Columbus and the Age of Discovery

1992 · Self - Narrator (voice)

1990 · Victor Conner

1990 · John Deerborn

1989 · Narrator (voice)

Hostile Takeover

Crossbow: The Movie

1989 · William Tell

American Experience

1988 · Self - Narrator (voice)

1987 · William Tell

Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

1985 · narrator (himself)

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

1985 · Rev. Parris

Murder, She Wrote

1984 · Allan Wooster

The Mind of a Murderer: Part 1

1984 · Narrator

Vietnam: A Television History

1983 · Narrator

1983 · Self - Narrator (voice)

American Playhouse

1982 · Reverend Parris

1974 · Narrator

Yemen Under Siege

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