# Roles for the gipper **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241 "2019-10-04T03:39:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bionic\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/49beb7/32.png) [@bionic\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bionic_man)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/1 "2019-10-04T03:39:53Z")
If Ronald Reagan hadn’t gone into politics what are is for him to do in Hollywood.true grit? Battlestar Galactica.? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/2 "2019-10-04T03:47:39Z")
Every Which Way but Loose ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/3 "2019-10-04T04:16:17Z")
Darth Vader ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/4 "2019-10-04T04:21:06Z")
oddly i think he would of been great on Galactica because he was good at projecting himself as everyone’s favorite grandpa …even if he was old fashion and slightly out of touch … he always gave a sense of "he means well " even if you didn’t agree with a damn thing he said … ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/5 "2019-10-04T05:59:15Z")
He’d be in Cocoon (one of the lesser roles), Airport 77, Fantasy island, a very special episode of Family Ties, the role of Dr Siberman in Terminator, Captain Smith in titanic, Pa Kent in Superman. But his biggest breakthrough role would be Willy Loman in the definitive version of Death of a Salesman, directed by Dustin Hoffman. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/6 "2019-10-04T13:22:50Z")
He may well have ended up in Airplane. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/7 "2019-10-04T13:31:56Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > He may well have ended up in Airplane. “Well, I speak jive.” ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/8 "2019-10-04T13:42:30Z")
I think Reagan might well have appeared in one or more of the big disaster films of the '70s, like _Poseidon Adventure_ or one of the _Airport_ sequels. Those movies were filled with aging actors of Reagan’s type. They very much traded on their “all-star casts.” Reagan would have been a perfect fit for a harried airport manager or the stubborn official who doesn’t believe that the problem can really be as bad as Steve McQueen is telling him. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/9 "2019-10-04T13:47:50Z")
I can so see him as Bob, the owner of Bob’s Country Bunker, in the original Blues Brothers movie. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/10 "2019-10-04T14:23:24Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > I think Reagan might well have appeared in one or more of the big disaster films of the '70s, like _Poseidon Adventure_ or one of the _Airport_ sequels. Those movies were filled with aging actors of Reagan’s type. They very much traded on their “all-star casts.” Reagan would have been a perfect fit for a harried airport manager or the stubborn official who doesn’t believe that the problem can really be as bad as Steve McQueen is telling him. Yeah, anything with Robert Stack could have been done by Reagan, just not as well. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/11 "2019-10-04T14:24:32Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I can so see him as Bob, the owner of Bob’s Country Bunker, in the original Blues Brothers movie. I’m imagining Nancy saying they like both kinds of music. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/12 "2019-10-04T15:15:42Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Yeah, anything with Robert Stack could have been done by Reagan, just not as well. Robert Stack is a good comparison. I could see Regan hosting a show like Unsolved Mysteries. He was a good host. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/13 "2019-10-04T15:31:54Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Robert Stack is a good comparison. I could see Regan hosting a show like Unsolved Mysteries. He was a good host. Reagan was the same age as Vincent Price, which brings up the idea of having _him_ answer Columbo’s questions — and play stage magician on the Love Boat, and get thwarted by the Bionic Woman — before doing voice work on the Scooby-Doo cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/14 "2019-10-04T16:13:49Z")
I can see him on _Star Trek_ as a hidebound old diplomat who puts the Enterprise in jeopardy by removing Kirk and taking command in order to complete his mission. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roles-for-the-gipper/841241/15 "2019-10-05T04:16:30Z")
Real-life Bojack Horseman in ‘Horsin’ Around’.