Which Movie That Has a Depiction of Real U.S. Presidents In It is Your Favorite
The following is a list of films that have U.S. presidents depicted by actors (or cameos of presidents before the became presidents) in in the story, that may or not be about them, but they were depicted in the story anyway, even if it was just a cameo ether before, during, or after they were presidents. (There was one president, who after he had finished his term of office as president, ran for congress and finished his life as a senator.) Including feature films film shorts, and TV series, which is your favorite film?
Don’t forget many presidents were in the military before getting elected President.
Come over here to debate the Presidents. No documentaries allowed.
A shout to @Hoekkie President’s Day list to which many of his selection are on this list too.
Honorable mention to The Far Horizons (1955).
Don’t forget many presidents were in the military before getting elected President.
Come over here to debate the Presidents. No documentaries allowed.
A shout to @Hoekkie President’s Day list to which many of his selection are on this list too.
Honorable mention to The Far Horizons (1955).
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- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsNicolas CageDiane KrugerJustin BarthaA historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.Graham Malcom as Andrew Jackson (uncredited. It is in the deleted scenes of the movie and the director’s commentary mentions the actor’s and the president’s name. The deleted scene is called “Thomas and The President”.)
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyJoan LeslieWalter HustonThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.Even tough it says in the cast credits Wallis Clark uncredited as Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, I don’t remember him. I do remember Art Gilmore, uncredited, as the voice of Franklin D. “FDR” Roosevelt.
- DirectorPeter H. HuntStarsWilliam DanielsHoward Da SilvaKen HowardA musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.William Daniels as John Adams.
Ken Howard as Thomas Jefferson - DirectorJames IvoryStarsNick NolteGreta ScacchiGwyneth PaltrowWidower Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president 1801-09) lives in Paris 1785-90 with his daughter. He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France. He has an alleged affair with her resulting in children.Nick Nolte as Thomas Jefferson
- DirectorHamilton LuskeClyde GeronimiWilfred JacksonStarsSterling HollowayHans ConriedStan FrebergA mouse tells the story of how he guided Benjamin Franklin to success and prominence.Hans Conrad as the voice of Thomas Jefferson.
- StarsTom BerengerSam ElliottGary BuseyUndersecretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt resigns to form a volunteer militia unit called "The Rough Riders" to fight in the Spanish-American War.Tom Berenger as Theodore Roosevelt.
- DirectorJohn FordHenry HathawayGeorge MarshallStarsJames StewartJohn WayneGregory PeckA family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.Raymond Massey as Abraham Lincoln
Henry {Harry} Morgan as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDjimon HounsouMatthew McConaugheyAnthony HopkinsIn 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.Anthony Hopkins as Sen. (and former president) John Quincy Adams
Nigel Hawthorne as Martin Van Burren - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDaniel Day-LewisSally FieldDavid StrathairnAs the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.Daniel Day-Louis as Abraham Lincoln
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsCliff RobertsonRobert CulpTy HardinPresident John F. Kennedy kept a unique inauguration gift on his desk: a plastic-encased coconut. The tale of that coconut is the heroic story of PT 109.Cliff Robertson as Lt. (J.G.) John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaAlice BradyMarjorie WeaverA fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.Henry Fonda as Abraham Lincoln
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksRobin WrightGary SiniseThe history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.Archival footage of Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, and John F. Kennedy
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsJosh BrolinElizabeth BanksIoan GruffuddA chronicle of the life and Presidency of George W. Bush.Josh Brolin as George W. Bush
James Cromwell as George H. W. Bush - DirectorOliver StoneStarsAnthony HopkinsJoan AllenPowers BootheA biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon
- DirectorRon HowardStarsFrank LangellaMichael SheenKevin BaconA dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.Frank Langella as Richard Nixon
- DirectorKen AnnakinAndrew MartonGerd OswaldStarsJohn WayneRobert RyanRichard BurtonThe events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.Henry Grace as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsSam ShepardScott GlennEd HarrisThe U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.Robert Beer as Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy (archive footage)
Donald Moffat as Lyndon B. Johnson (also archive footage of L. B. J.) - DirectorShawn LevyStarsBen StillerCarla GuginoRicky GervaisA newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc.Robin Williams as Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
- DirectorHenry KingStarsAlexander KnoxCharles CoburnGeraldine FitzgeraldA chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson.Alexander Knox as Woodrow Wilson
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsGregory PeckDan O'HerlihyEd FlandersBiopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.Dan O’Herlihy as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ed Flanders as Harry S. Truman - DirectorFrank PiersonStarsGary SiniseDiana ScarwidRichard DysartThough considered unqualified, Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president following the April 1945 death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.Gary Sinise as Harry S. Truman
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsHenry FondaE.G. MarshallLucille BensonU.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head when Truman relieves the insubordinate MacArthur from command.E.G. Marshall as Harry S. Truman
- DirectorVincent J. DonehueStarsRalph BellamyGreer GarsonHume CronynAfter a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.Ralph Bellamy as Franklin D. Roosevelt
- DirectorChris ColumbusStarsMacaulay CulkinJoe PesciDaniel SternOne year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City - and the same criminals are not far behind.Donald Trump as himself.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsGary OldmanLily JamesKristin Scott ThomasIn May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.David Strathairn as Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the voice on the phone.)
- DirectorAnthony QuinnStarsYul BrynnerClaire BloomCharles BoyerDuring the War of 1812, Louisiana buccaneer Jean Lafitte assists the Americans in defending New Orleans against the attacking British war fleet.Charlton Heston as Gen. Andrew Jackson
- StarsBarry BostwickPatty DukeDavid DukesThe early life and career of the American General and President through his participation in the Revolutionary War.Berry Bostwick as George Washington
Hal Holbrook as John Adams - CreatorMichael MalianiKevin O'DonnellAndy HeywardStarsWalter CronkiteKathleen BarrReo JonesThe American Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of an American teenaged lad, a young English lady, and a French boy, all three of whom work as reporters for Benjamin Franklin.Billy Crystal as John Adams
Ben Stiller as Thomas Jefferson
Cork Ramer as George Washington
(We are only focusing on presidents in this list, but this series has Hollywood A-list stars playing historical figures.) - DirectorRobert HarmonStarsJeff DanielsRoger ReesSebastian RochéA dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the Hessian forces at Trenton.Jeff Daniels as Gen. George Washington
- DirectorRobert HarmonStarsTom SelleckJames RemarTimothy BottomsA dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history.Tom Selleck as Dwight D. Eisenhower
- DirectorBoris SagalMelville ShavelsonStarsRobert DuvallLee RemickDana AndrewsDramatization of the World War II years of Dwight D. Eisenhower.Robert Duvall as Dwight D. Eisenhower
- DirectorMichael O'HerlihyStarsWalter BrennanBuddy EbsenLesley Ann WarrenThe eleven members of the Bower family move to Dakota Territory.This Disney film really doesn’t belong on this list since the presidents discussed in the film, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, never appear in it. But a major theme of the film is their positions in the election of 1888, on how the Dakota territories be admitted into the United States as one state or two. It is like they are invisible characters in the film.
- CreatorVirginia KasselStarsPamela Payton-WrightGeorge HearnMichael TolanThis ambitious multi-part PBS production brings to life five generations of one of America's leading political and historical families, tracing their lives from John Adams' years as a colonial Boston attorney to the rise in prominence of Brookes Adams in the fields of political and social philosophy. This mini looks into their triumphs and tragedies, exploring their genius and profound social conscience.John Grizzard as John Adams
William Daniels as John Quincy Adams - DirectorAva DuVernayStarsDavid OyelowoCarmen EjogoOprah WinfreyA chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon B. Johnson
Suggested by Breumaster - DirectorRichard TanneStarsTika SumpterParker SawyersVanessa Bell CallowayChronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.Parker Sawyers as Barack Obama
Suggested by Breumaster as “My First Lady”