Ones I was able to think of off the top of my head. Add on others.
Josiah ‘Jed’ Bartlet - (Martin Sheen) The West Wing, TV series Tom Beck - (Morgan Freeman) Deep Impact, movie Douglass Dilman - The Man, novel Matt Douglas - (James Garner) My Fellow Americans, movie Roger Durling - Debt of Honor, novel Walter Emerson - (Kevin Pollak) Deterrence, movie Jackson Evans - (Jeff Bridges) The Contender, movie Bob Fowler - Sum of All Fears, novel William Haney - (Dan Aykroyd) My Fellow Americans, movie Franklin Xavier Kennedy - The Fourth K, novel Russell O. Kramer - (Jack Lemmon) My Fellow Americans, movie Manfred Link - (Bob Newhart) First Family, movie Jordan Lyman - (Fredric March) Seven Days in May, novel and movie Julia Mansfield - (Patty Duke) Hail to the Chief, TV series James Marshall - (Harrison Ford) Air Force One, movie Bill Mitchell - (Kevin Kline) Dave, movie Merkin Muffley - (Peter Sellers) Dr Strangelove, movie Chet Roosevelt - (John Ritter) Americathon, movie Jack Ryan - Executive Orders, novel Andrew Sheppard - (Michael Douglas) The American President, movie Jack Stanton - (John Travolta) Primary Colors, novel and movie Samuel Arthur Tresch - (George C. Scott) Mr President, TV series Thomas J. Whitmore - (Bill Pullman) Independence Day, movie
One strange thing I noticed as I was composing this list, is that all of the Presidents whose last name begins with the letter A-F are, I believe, Democrats.
Joshua Francis Kellogg-He was President for only a few minutes, as he was assasinated at his inauguration, in the book, Joshua, Son of None, by Nancy Freedman.
In Robert Heinlein’s book Double Star, the main character, an actor, mentions having met a President Warfield.
Little Nemo, what a great thread idea! I don’t remember having seen anything like it. I had a couple others but you had them already. Say, in The Man, when Douglas Dillman was President, who was his predecessor, the guy that died when the building collapsed. And didn’t Dillman have a mentor who was a former President himself?
Ooh, just thought of another one, the President in Heinlein’s short story “Over the Rainbow” The name is never fully revealed, but the President is female and black.
And Polly Bergen, the actress, played the President in an old movie, can’t remember her character’s name but Fred McMurray was the First Gentleman. She resigned when she got pregnant.
And Lifetime had a movie where a woman became President after a hard fought campaign. They tried to kill her and got her husband instead. Someone know the film I mean?
Little Nemo, you mentioned Martin Sheen’s turn as Jeb Bartlett in The West Wing, but he also appeared in a presidential turn as Greg Stilson in the film “The Dead Zone.” (Playing rather a different character.)
“Mister President” - Deathrace 2000 (Sandy McCallum)
“President” - Sleeper (uncredited)
“President” - Escape From L.A. (Cliff Robertson)
“President of the United States” - Escape From New York (Donald Pleasence)
President Florentina Kane, i dont know the original title of the Jeffrey Archer book, published in spanish as “la hija prodiga”, (the ¿prodigal? daughter)
