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Actors who played U.S. presidents



Actors who played U.S. presidents

This list contains informations taken from IMDB and Wikipedia, therefore they may be inaccurate or incomplete and includes names of the actors who played real or fictional U.S.Presidents in movies, TV movies and serials.

Aaron Eckhart as President Benjamin Asher in Olympus has fallen 2013, USA, director: Antoine Fuqua
Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan (the 40th President) in The butler 2013 (loosely based on the real life of Eugene Allen; inspired from the article ‘A butler well served by this election’ by Wil Haygood), USA, director: Lee Daniels
Anthony Hopkins as Richard M. Nixon in Nixon 1995, USA, director & co-writer: Oliver Stone

Benjamin Walker as Abraham Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012 (based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith), USA, director: Timur Bekmambetov
Bruce Gray as The President in Spy Hard 1996, USA, director & co-writer: Rick Friedberg
Bruce Greenwood as John F. Kennedy in Thirteen days 2000 (after the book 'The Kennedy tapes - Inside the White House during the Cuban missile drisis' by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow), USA, director: Roger Donaldson
Bruce Greenwood as The President in National treasure: Book of secrets 2007, USA, director: Jon Turteltaub

Charles Howerton as President Calvin Craig in Assassination 1987, USA, director: Peter R. Hunt (as Peter Hunt)
Christian Rodska as President Truman in The Monuments Men 2014 (after a book by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter), USA & Germany, director, co-writer & actor: George Clooney

Daniel Hugh Kelly as John F. Kennedy in Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The women of Camelot 2001 (TV movie) (after a book by J. Randy Taraborrelli), director: Larry Shaw
David Rasche as President Ballentine in The sentinel 2006 (after a novel by Gerald Petievich),USA, director: Clark Johnson
Dennis Haysbert as President David Palmer in 24 (TV series; 2001–2010)
Donald Moffat as President Bennett in Clear and present danger 1994 (based on a novel by Tom Clancy), USA, director: Phillip Noyce
Donald Pleasence as President in Escape from New York 1981, UK & USA, director & co-writer: John Carpenter

Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years 1977 (TV Movie)

Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon 2008 (based on the 2006 play of the same name by Peter Morgan), USA, UK & France, director & co-producer: Ron Howard
Fredric March as President Jordan Lyman in Seven days in May 1964 (after a novel by Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II), USA, director: John Frankenheimer

Gene Hackman as President Allen Richmond in Absolute power 1997 (based on a book by David Baldacci), USA, director & actor: Clint Eastwood

Harrison Ford as President James Marshall in Air Force One 1997, USA & Germany, director: Wolfgang Petersen  
Henry Fonda as The President in Fail-Safe 1964 (based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler), director & co-producer: Sidney Lumet
Henry Fonda as The President in Meteror 1979, director & co-producer: Ronald Neame

James Cromwell as President Fowler in The sum of all fears 2002 (after a novel by Tom Clancy), USA & Germany, director: Phil Alden Robinson
James Franciscus as John F. Kennedy in Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy 1981 (TV Movie)
James Marsden as John F. Kennedy (the 35th President) in The butler 2013 (loosely based on the real life of Eugene Allen; inspired from the article ‘A butler well served by this election’ by Wil Haygood), USA, director: Lee Daniels
Jamie Foxx as President James Sawyer in White House Down, USA, director: Roland Emmerich
Jim Curley as President (codenamed ‘Traveler’) in In the line of fire 1993, USA, director: Wolfgang Petersen
John Beck as President Fallbrook in The alternate aka Agent of death 2000, USA, director: Sam Firstenberg
John Cusack as Richard Nixon (the 37th President) in The butler 2013 (loosely based on the real life of Eugene Allen; inspired from the article ‘A butler well served by this election’ by Wil Haygood), USA, director: Lee Daniels

Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson (the 36th President) in The butler 2013 (loosely based on the real life of Eugene Allen; inspired from the article ‘A butler well served by this election’ by Wil Haygood), USA, director: Lee Daniels
Lux Haney-Jardine as young Abraham Lincoln in in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012 (based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith), USA, director: Timur Bekmambetov
Mark Hammer as President Manning (voice) in The Imagemaker 1986, USA, director & co-writer: Hal Weiner
Martin Sheen as President (U.S.) in Medusa’s child 1997 (after a book by John J. Nance), Canada & USA, director: Larry Shaw
Martin Sheen as President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet in The West Wing (TV Series; 1999–2006)
Michael Douglas as President Andrew Shepherd in The American President 1995, USA, director: Rob Reiner
Michael Gill as President Garrett Walker in House of cards (TV series; 2013– )

Peter Strauss as President James Sanford in xXx: State of the union 2005, USA, director:  Lee Tamahori

Ralph Waite as President Mathews in The president’s man 2000 (TV movie), USA, co-director: Eric Norris & Michael Preece
Robert Culp as President in The Pelican Brief 1993 (based on a novel by John Grisham), USA, director & writer: Alan J. Pakula
Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower (the 34th President) in The butler 2013 (loosely based on the real life of Eugene Allen; inspired from the article ‘A butler well served by this election’ by Wil Haygood), USA, director: Lee Daniels
Ronny Cox as The President Simmons in Martians go home 1989 (based on a novel by Fredric Brown), USA, director: David Odell
Roy Scheider as President Jack Cahill in Chain of command 2000, USA, director: John Terlesky
Roy Scheider as President Robert Baker in The peacekeeper 1997, Canada & USA, director: Frédéric Forestier (as Frederic Forestier)

Sam Waterston as  Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln 1988 (TV series) (based on Gore Vidal’s novel), USA, director: Lamont Johnson
Sam Waterston as The President in Shadow conspiracy 1997, USA, director:  George P. Cosmatos
Sean McGraw as Lyndon B. Johnson in Parkland 2013 (based on a book by Vincent Bugliosi), USA, director & writer: Peter Landesman
Stanley Anderson as President in Armageddon 1998, USA, director: Michael Bay
Stephen Roberts as Franklin D. Roosevelt in The Long Days of Summer 1980 (TV Movie)
Steve Reed as John F. Kennedy – Double in JFK 1991 (adapted from the books ‘On the trail of the assassins’ by Jim Garrison and ‘Crossfire: The plot that killed Kennedy’ by Jim Marrs), USA, director: Oliver Stone

Terry Alan Crews as U.S. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in Idiocarcy 2006, director: Mike Judge

Will Lyman as President Theodore Roosevelt Bridges in Commander in chief
William Hurt as President Ashton in Vantage point 2008, USA, director: Pete Travis
William Sadler as President Ellis in Iron Man 3