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
