Favorite movie or TV show depicting a real US president?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

What's your favorite? Why?
Must be a fictional or biographical depiction of a real president so "Jefferson in Paris" qualifies but "An American President" doesn't qualify. TV series or single episodes are OK-- even that awful Star Trek episode where Kirk and Lincoln battle Genghis Khan and the Klingon Rich Little.

[Seeking Serenity]

1. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

Has a very funny send-up of a clumsy President Ford, who says, when the lunatic Dreyfus interrupts the television broadcast of a Michigan Wolverine football game and threatens the world, "Call the FBI, the CIA and the Pentagon! Find out who won the game!"

Another funny scene in the movie is where the president is asleep and is awoken when the telephone rings and he sits up suddenly and shouts "What's the score?!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075066/

[TheCentepedeShoes]

29. Yeah, and he had a

Michigan blanket on his bed and was hugging a football. And he tripped over a trash can.

[Left Brain]

2. Edward Herrmann was the definitive Franklin

[Sequoia]

3. Black Sunday

where Jimmy Carter waved from the stands. Blimp was to crash during the Super Bowl.

[terrya]

4. I very much liked Oliver Stone's "Nixon"

It's an engrossing film about a President, admittedly, I didn't like a whole lot. Anthony Hopkins is marvelous as Nixon.

[av8rdave]

14. It was a good film

What a testament to Tony Hopkins' acting ability - doesn't even look like Nixon, and yet you never really notice.

[KG]

5. Devane as JFK in 'Missiles of October'

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. Did anyone ever send a copy of that to Dana Perino? nt

[KG]

17. she could use the history lesson, and get some tips from Michael Lerners' role as Pierre Salinger

[lightningandsnow]

6. Arthur.

Yes. The kid's TV show.

There's one episode where D.W. (the little sister) gets lost in the White House and ends up in the president's office. The whole family then gets to have dinner with the cartoonized version of Bill Clinton.

Well, they never say it's Bill Clinton, but it obviously is.

As a child, it gave me the impression that I, too, could have dinner with world leaders if I got lucky enough.

[Initech]

7. That's My Bush!

[Drunken Irishman]

8. FDR in last night's Simpsons was pretty good.

Using the military to find Bonnie and Clyde by taking them out of Pearl Harbor. :rofl:

[Connonym]

9. I always enjoy when Nixon's head in a jar is on Futurama

Al Gore was good on Futurama too. Oh wait...we can count him anyway, can't we?

[Solon]

11. "Now beat it, before I get Cambodian on your asses."

Love Nixon on Futurama, fucking hilarious!

[alarimer]

10. Comedy Central's Lil Bush

Bush, Jeb, Condi, even Barack Obama as children. Funny stuff.

I guess that doesn't really meet the criteria though.

[Parche]

12. Wild Wild West TV

:hi:
President Grant

[IntravenousDemilo]

15. 1776, hands down!

It's got two presidents in it, Adams (William Daniels) and Jefferson (Ken Howard) -- or three if you count John Hancock.

Best of all, it's a musical with great songs and a witty book! The plot, courtesy of eBay: "Although it tells the story of what happened at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1776 leading up to the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and it accurately portrays the serious personal and political issues at stake -- frequently in the characters' own words, written by them at the time -- it remains a musical comedy. The play has often been criticized for straining too hard for historical accuracy instead of exercising literary license when that would help the plot or presentation along.

"The 1972 film version was marred by controversy as then President Richard Nixon successfully lobbied his friend, producer Jack L. Warner, to cut the song "Cool, Cool, Considerate Men" from the film release because he believed it to be an attack against the Republican Party. The song was restored in the 2003 DVD release of the film as well as on the earlier laserdisc release."

[adabfree]

16. Jefferson in Paris...outstanding performance by Nolte..

I'd also go with...
Anthony Hopkins, as John Quincy Adams, in Amistad

Bruce Greenwood, as JFK, in Thirteen Days

loved..loved Jeff in Paris though..one of my all time favs

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

18. Bedtime for Bonzo

[Gidney N Cloyd]

20. Somebody had to say it...

But I can only give you half credit since the star only thought he played a real president.

By the way, I recognize W on the right but who's the asshole with the bottle?

[azmouse]

19. 'Dick' is pretty funny.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

30. Dick is kinda silly

but fun to watch.
"The president has a potty mouth!!"

[Va Lefty]

21. "The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It"

This is supposed to President Ford. For some reason video loads slowly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c7QjI3fUn8

[Deja Q]

22. So the president guy in "Superman II" does not qualify?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

26. 'Fraid not. I can't find a historical reference to any real president kneeling before Zod.

[Deja Q]

23. Truman was in the Futurama episode "Roswell That Ends Well"

That puts to shame everyone elses' answers, so naa naahnee-nah nyah! :P

[this_side_up]

24. Give 'em hell, Harry

James Whitmore's one man show about Harry S Truman

[YankeyMCC]

25. Lincoln n "The Savage Curtain"

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episode/68814.html

[Gidney N Cloyd]

27. Yeah. That would be the aforementioned "that awful Star Trek episode where Kirk and Lincoln ..."

"...battle Genghis Khan and the Klingon Rich Little."

[pokerfan]

28. Forrest Gump had three presidents

voiced by actors:

Jed Gillin (Kennedy)
John William Galt (Johnson)
Joe Alaskey (Nixon)

________________________
President Kennedy met with the collegiate All-American football team at the Oval Office today.

The really good thing about meeting the President of the United States is the food. They put you in this little room with just about anything
you'd want to eat or drink. But since, number one, I wasn't hungry, but thirsty, and number two, they was free, I must have drank about Dr Peppers.

How does it feel to be an All-American?

It's an honour, sir.

How does it feel to be an All-American?

Very good, sir.

How does it feel to be an All-American?

Very good, sir.

Congratulations. How do you feel?

I got to pee.

I believe he said he had to pee.

Some time later, for no particular reason, somebody shot that nice young President when he was in his car. And a few years after that, somebody shot his little brother, too, only he was in a hotel kitchen. Must be hard being brothers. I wouldn't know.

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President Johnson awarded four medals of honour to men from each...

America owes you a debt of gratitude, son. I understand you were wounded. Where were you hit?

In the buttocks, sir.

Well, that must be a sight. I'd kinda like to see that.

God damn, son!

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Wouldn't you know it? A few months later, they invited me and the ping-pong team to visit the White House. So I went, again. And I met the President of the United States again. Only this time, they didn't get us rooms in a real fancy hotel.

Are you enjoying yourself in our nation's capital, young man? Where are you staying?

It's called the Hotel Ebbott.

Oh, no. I know a much nicer hotel. It's brand-new. Very modern. I'll have my people take care of it.

[mondo joe]

31. Didn't Bill Clinton appear in CONTACT? That's my pick.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

32. Wasn't Teddy Roosevelt

in Ragtime. Not while prez, but when police commissioner of NYC