Will Lyman

male

Born on May 20, 1948 (77 years old)

From Burlington, Vermont, USA

Known for Acting

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.

Cast Credits

2025
- The Electric State
  as
  Documentary Narrator (voice)
  2025
- The Arborist
  as
  Arthur Randolph
  2025
- Battle for Tibet
  as
  Narrator
  2025
- The Rise of RFK Jr.
  as
  Narrator
  2025
- Trump's Power & the Rule of Law
  as
  Narrator (voice over)
  2025
2024
- Aftermath
  as
  Joe Kozak
  2024
- Democracy on Trial
  as
  Narrator
  2024
- no image
  Children of Ukraine
  as
  Narrator
  2024
- Crisis on Campus
  as
  Narrator
  2024
- The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  2024
2020
- United States of Conspiracy
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2020
- Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos
  as
  Narrator
  2020
- Battle for Hong Kong
  as
  Narrator
  2020
- Christmas on Ice
  as
  Mayor Greenwood
  2020
- The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2020
- Once Upon a Time in Iraq
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  2020
- Animaniacs
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2020
- America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  2020
2018
- UN Sex Abuse Scandal
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2018
2017
- Out of Gitmo
  as
  narrator
  2017
- no image
  Frontline: President Trump
  as
  Narrator
  2017
- no image
  Divided States of America
  as
  Narrator
  2017
- Life on Parole
  as
  Narrator
  2017
- Hunting ISIS
  as
  Narrator
  2017
- Iraq Uncovered
  as
  Narrator
  2017
2016
- Terror in Europe
  as
  self
  2016
- Netanyahu at War
  as
  Self (narrator)
  2016
- The Choice 2016
  as
  Narrator
  2016
- Supplements and Safety
  as
  Self - Narrator
  2016
- Saudi Arabia Uncovered
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  2016
- Business of Disaster
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2016
2015
- Obama at War
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  2015
- The Fight for Yemen
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  2015
- Isis in Afghanistan
  2015
2014
- Generation Like
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2014
- United States of Secrets (Part Two): Privacy Lost
  as
  Narrator
  2014
- Losing Iraq
  as
  Narrator
  2014
- Prison State
  as
  Himself - Narrator (Voice)
  2014
- Firestone and the Warlord
  as
  Self - Narrator
  2014
- Separate and Unequal
  as
  Narrator
  2014
- The Trouble with Antibiotics
  as
  Self - Reporter
  2014
- United States of Secrets
  as
  Narrator
  2014
2010
- The Other Guys
  as
  Frontline Narration App
  2010
- Behind Taliban Lines
  2010
2008
- Iron Man
  as
  Award Ceremony Narrator (voice)
  2008
- no image
  Abuse of Power
  as
  Nolan Flannery
  2008
- What Doesn't Kill You
  as
  Sully
  2008
- Rules of Engagement
  as
  Narrator
  2008
- The War Briefing
  as
  Narrator
  2008
- Young & Restless in China
  2008
2007
- Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory
  as
  Narrator
  2007
- no image
  I'm Paige Wilson
  as
  Ben Foxworthy
  2007
- Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe
  as
  Moe Fresno
  2007
- On Our Watch
  as
  Narrator
  2007
- Endgame
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  2007
- Frontline - News War
  as
  Self
  2007
2006
- Fierce People
  as
  Documentary Narrator (voice)
  2006
- Little Children
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2006
- The Age of AIDS
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2006
- Return of the Taliban
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  2006
- no image
  Is It Real?
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2006
2004
- The Secret History of the Credit Card
  as
  Narrator
  2004
- Golden Road: Today's Senior Drivers
  as
  Narrator
  2004
- American Meltdown
  as
  Homeland Chief Utley
  2004
2003
- Salt Lake City 2002: Stories of Olympic Glory
  as
  Narrator
  2003
- Coming Home from Space: The Challenge of Re-Entry
  as
  Narrator
  2003
- Truth, War and Consequences
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2003
- Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific
  as
  Narrator
  2003
- Mystic River
  as
  FBI Agent Birden
  2003
- Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2003
- Threat Matrix
  as
  Roger Atkins
  2003
2001
- no image
  Sinking the Lusitania
  as
  Narrator
  2001
- Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory
  as
  Narrator
  2001
- no image
  Dog Days
  as
  Dad
  2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  as
  Roger Jameson
  2001
1999
- The Autumn Heart
  as
  Doctor
  1999
- The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
  1999
- Michael Jordan: His Airness
  as
  Narrator
  1999
- The West Wing
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1999
1998
- Anatomy of a 'Homicide: Life on the Street'
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  1998
- A Perfect Murder
  as
  Jason Gates
  1998
- Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory
  as
  Narrator
  1998
- The Siege
  as
  FBI Director
  1998
1996
- Welcome to the Dollhouse
  as
  Mr. Edwards
  1996
- Celtic Pride
  as
  Rich Man
  1996
- The Crucible
  as
  Isaiah Goodkind
  1996
- The Ultimate Guide: T-Rex
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1996
- NBA at 50
  as
  Self - Narrator
  1996
- The Ultimate Guide
  as
  Narrator
  1996
1993
- The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
  as
  Narrator (voice) (US version, Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?)
  1993
- The Arming of Saudi Arabia
  as
  Narrator
  1993
1990
- no image
  Nixon
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1990
- Hull High
  1990
- Law & Order
  as
  Victor Conner
  1990
1986
- Hostage in Iran
  as
  Narrator
  1986
2023
- Putin and the Presidents
  as
  Narrator
  2023
- Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power, and the Supreme Court
  as
  narrator
  2023
- Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza
  as
  Narrator
  2023
- Inside the Uvalde Response
  as
  Narrator
  2023
- The Discord Leaks
  as
  Narrator
  2023
2022
- The Power of Big Oil
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2022
- Ukraine: Life Under Russia's Attack
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  2022
- Lies, Politics and Democracy
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  2022
2021
- America After 9/11
  as
  narrator
  2021
- Boeing's Fatal Flaw
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2021
- Taliban Takeover
  as
  Narrator
  2021
- Shots Fired
  as
  Narrator
  2021
- Mother/Android
  as
  Captain
  2021
2013
- League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis
  as
  Himself - Narrator
  2013
2012
- Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
  as
  Narrator
  2012
- no image
  Last Man Out
  as
  Walt Whitman (voice)
  2012
- The Suicide Plan
  as
  Narrator
  2012
- Money, Power & Wall Street
  as
  Self - Narrator
  2012
2011
- Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory
  as
  Narrator
  2011
- no image
  The Anthrax Files
  2011
2009
- no image
  The Boneyard
  as
  Narrator
  2009
2005
- Our Fathers
  as
  Wilson Rogers Jr.
  2005
- The New Asylums
  as
  narrator
  2005
- Commander in Chief
  as
  Teddy Bridges
  2005
- Commander in Chief
  as
  Teddy Bridges (uncredited)
  2005
2002
- Alma Mater
  2002
- American Porn
  as
  Narrator
  2002
2000
- Warriors of the French Foreign Legion
  as
  Narrator
  2000
- Satan in the Suburbs
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2000
- no image
  Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
  as
  Self - Narrator(voice)
  2000
- Ed
  as
  Gus McGraw
  2000
1997
- The Bay of Pigs
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1997
- Floating
  as
  Van's Father
  1997
- Atlanta’s Olympic Glory
  as
  Narrator
  1997
1995
- The Search for Satan
  1995
1994
- Part Two: The Mao Years 1949–1976
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1994
- Norse America
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  1994
- Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory
  as
  Narrator
  1994
1992
- no image
  Columbus and the Age of Discovery
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  1992
1989
- Crossbow: The Movie
  as
  William Tell
  1989
- Hostile Takeover
  as
  Smolen
  1989
- The Simpsons
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1989
1988
- American Experience
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  1988
1987
- The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  1987
- Crossbow
  as
  William Tell
  1987
1985
- Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
  as
  narrator (himself)
  1985
- Three Sovereigns for Sarah
  as
  Rev. Parris
  1985
- Three Sovereigns for Sarah
  as
  Rev. Parris
  1985
1984
- The Mind of a Murderer: Part 1
  as
  Narrator
  1984
- The Mind of a Murderer: Part 2
  as
  Narrator
  1984
- Murder, She Wrote
  as
  Allan Wooster
  1984
1983
- Vietnam: A Television History
  1983
- Frontline
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  1983
1974
- NOVA
  as
  Narrator
  1974
- NOVA
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  1974
- NOVA
  as
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  1974
1964
- Another World
  1964

Will Lyman

Biography

Cast Credits

The Electric State

The Arborist

Battle for Tibet

The Rise of RFK Jr.

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law

Aftermath

Democracy on Trial

Children of Ukraine

Crisis on Campus

The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump

United States of Conspiracy

Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos

Battle for Hong Kong

Christmas on Ice

The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden

Once Upon a Time in Iraq

Animaniacs

America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump

UN Sex Abuse Scandal

Out of Gitmo

Frontline: President Trump

Divided States of America

Life on Parole

Hunting ISIS

Iraq Uncovered

Terror in Europe

Netanyahu at War

The Choice 2016

Supplements and Safety

Saudi Arabia Uncovered

Business of Disaster

Obama at War

The Fight for Yemen

Isis in Afghanistan

Generation Like

United States of Secrets (Part Two): Privacy Lost

Losing Iraq

Prison State

Firestone and the Warlord

Separate and Unequal

The Trouble with Antibiotics

United States of Secrets

The Other Guys

Behind Taliban Lines

Iron Man

Abuse of Power

What Doesn't Kill You

Rules of Engagement

The War Briefing

Young & Restless in China

Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory

I'm Paige Wilson

Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe

On Our Watch

Endgame

Frontline - News War

Fierce People

Little Children

The Age of AIDS

Return of the Taliban

Is It Real?

The Secret History of the Credit Card

Golden Road: Today's Senior Drivers

American Meltdown

Salt Lake City 2002: Stories of Olympic Glory

Coming Home from Space: The Challenge of Re-Entry

Truth, War and Consequences

Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific

Mystic River

Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History

Threat Matrix

Sinking the Lusitania

Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory

Dog Days

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Autumn Heart

The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela