Will Lyman

Known for: Acting
Born: May 20, 1948, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Movies: 139

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.

Upcoming Will Lyman Movies

News War

Release date TBA

10.0

Yemen Under Siege

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

7.7

Iron Man

2008

7.7

Mystic River

2003

6.3

The Other Guys

2010

6.5

The Electric State

2025

6.6

A Perfect Murder

1998

6.3

The Siege

1998

7.1

Little Children

2006

5.7

Mother/Android

2021

6.6

The Crucible

1996

7.1

Welcome to the Dollhouse

1996

Filmography

2026	American Voices 2026	Narrator
2026	Scammed	Narrator
2026	The War Cabinet	Narrrator
2026	The Deal: Trump Bukele & The Gangs of El Salvador	Narrator (voice)
2026	Contaminated: The Carpet Industry's Toxic Legacy	Narrator
2025	The Rise of RFK Jr.	Narrator
2025	Trump's Power & the Rule of Law	Narrator (voice over)
2025	The Arborist	Arthur Randolph
2025	The Electric State	Documentary Narrator (voice)
2025	Battle for Tibet	Narrator
2024	Aftermath	Joe 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)
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
2021	China's COVID Secrets	Self - Narrator
2020	Christmas on Ice	Mayor Greenwood
2020	The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden	Narrator (voice)
2020	United States of Conspiracy	Narrator (voice)
2020	Once Upon a Time in Iraq	Self - Narrator (voice)
2020	Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos	Narrator
2020	Battle for Hong Kong	Narrator
2018	UN Sex Abuse Scandal	Narrator (voice)
2017	Life on Parole	Narrator
2017	Iraq Uncovered	Narrator
2017	Out of Gitmo	narrator
2017	Hunting ISIS	Narrator
2017	Divided States of America	Narrator
2017	Frontline: President Trump	Narrator
2016	The Choice 2016	Narrator
2016	Terror in Europe	self
2016	Business of Disaster	Narrator (voice)
2016	Saudi Arabia Uncovered	Self - Narrator (voice)
2016	Chasing Heroin	Narrator
2016	Supplements and Safety	Self - Narrator
2016	Netanyahu at War	Self (narrator)
2015	Obama at War	Self - Narrator (voice)
2015	Taliban Hunters	Self - Narrator (voice)
2015	Isis in Afghanistan
2015	Outbreak	Self - Narrator
2015	The Fight for Yemen	Self - Narrator (voice)
2014	Firestone and the Warlord	Self - Narrator
2014	The Trouble with Antibiotics	Self - Reporter
2014	Losing Iraq	Narrator
2014	Separate and Unequal	Narrator
2014	United States of Secrets (Part Two): Privacy Lost	Narrator
2014	Prison State	Himself - Narrator (Voice)
2014	Generation Like	Narrator (voice)
2013	A Death in St. Augustine	Narrator (voice)
2013	League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis	Himself - Narrator
2012	The Suicide Plan	Narrator
2012	Last Man Out	Walt Whitman (voice)
2012	Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown	Narrator
2011	The Anthrax Files
2011	Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory	Narrator
2010	The Other Guys	Frontline Narration App
2010	Behind Taliban Lines
2009	The Boneyard	Narrator
2008	What Doesn't Kill You	Sully
2008	The War Briefing	Narrator
2008	Abuse of Power	Nolan Flannery
2008	Young & Restless in China
2008	Iron Man	Award Ceremony Narrator (voice)
2008	Rules of Engagement	Narrator
2007	Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe	Moe Fresno
2007	On Our Watch	Narrator
2007	Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory	Narrator
2007	Endgame	Self - Narrator (voice)
2007	I'm Paige Wilson	Ben Foxworthy
2006	Little Children	Narrator (voice)
2006	Return of the Taliban	Self - Narrator (voice)
2006	The Dark Side	Self - Narrator
2006	The Age of AIDS	Narrator (voice)
2006	Fierce People	Documentary 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 City 2002: Stories of Olympic Glory	Narrator
2002	Alma Mater
2002	American Porn	Narrator
2001	The Day Reagan Was Shot	Narrator (voice)
2001	Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory	Narrator
2001	Sinking the Lusitania	Narrator
2001	Dog Days	Dad
2000	Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain	Self - Narrator(voice)
2000	Warriors of the French Foreign Legion	Narrator
2000	Satan in the Suburbs	Narrator (voice)
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	NBA at 50	Self - Narrator
1996	The Ultimate Guide: T-Rex	Narrator (voice)
1996	Celtic Pride	Rich Man
1996	Welcome to the Dollhouse	Mr. Edwards
1996	The Ultimate Guide: Sharks	Narrator
1995	The Search for Satan
1994	Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory	Narrator
1994	Part Two: 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?)
1993	The Arming of Saudi Arabia	Narrator
1992	School Ties	Swanson
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)
1986	Hostage in Iran	Narrator
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	Narrator
1984	The Mind of a Murderer: Part 1	Narrator

Directing, Writing & Producing

2002

The Pink Satin Suit

Director

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