# Two governors in one movie...before? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 30, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-governors-in-one-movie-before/204687 "2003-09-30T13:48:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![\_xiao\_wenti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b782af/32.png) [@\_xiao\_wenti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_xiao_wenti)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-governors-in-one-movie-before/204687/1 "2003-09-30T13:48:26Z")
With the lattest polls showing that Arnold Schwarzenegger is probably going to be the next governor of the great state of California, I got to thinking about his great movie, Predator. Predator had another “actor” in the movie, Jessie Ventura, who after he was splattered by the alien, went on to become the governor of the state of Minnesota. My question is: If Arnold becomes governor, is there any other FICTIONAL movie in which two or more of the actors became governors. This is (obviously) for all of the Reagan buffs out there. ---
**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-governors-in-one-movie-before/204687/2 "2003-09-30T16:05:05Z")
Are there any actors-turned-governors apart from Reagan and Ventura? [This article](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/17/earlyshow/leisure/books/main573799.shtml) from CBSNews claims Reagan was the first actor-governor. Unless there are movies with cameos by other real-life politicians alongside one of those, I’m not sure you’ll find any answers to the OP. Apart from **Forrest Gump** , which featured George Wallace and Ronald Reagan in archive footage. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-governors-in-one-movie-before/204687/3 "2003-09-30T16:10:04Z")
What if you include Senators? My former U.S. Senator is now the D.A. on _Law and Order_, but he has been in several movies, like _Die Hard II_. Fred Thompson. I’m sure there have been others, but I can’t think of any off the top of my head. Of course if you open it up to Representatives the pool gets even bigger (did Sonny Bono make any movies?) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-governors-in-one-movie-before/204687/4 "2003-09-30T16:19:21Z")
If you include senators, there is [This is the Army,](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0036430/) featuring George Murphy and Ronald Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/no_me_ayudes_compadre/32/5224_2.png) [@No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Me_Ayudes_Compadre)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-governors-in-one-movie-before/204687/5 "2003-09-30T16:22:56Z")
Oliver Stone’s **Nixon** features archive footage of one-time Govs. Earl Warren, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George Wallace, Edmund Brown, and Ronald Reagan, at least. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-governors-in-one-movie-before/204687/6 "2003-09-30T16:23:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by _xiao\_wenti_ \* > **My question is: If Arnold becomes governor, is there any other FICTIONAL movie in which two or more of the actors became governors.** Besides [Predator (1987)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093773/)? Sure, there’s also [The Running Man (1987)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/) and [Batman and Robin (1997)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118688/). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-governors-in-one-movie-before/204687/7 "2003-09-30T16:59:12Z")
For senators, there’s the film **Dave** which also has Arnie in it but since Arnie and the senators are playing themselves, I guess it doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-governors-in-one-movie-before/204687/8 "2003-09-30T17:02:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RM Mentock \* > \*\*Besides [Predator (1987)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093773/)? Sure, there’s also [The Running Man (1987)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/) and [Batman and Robin (1997)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118688/). 🙂 \*\* Did you take a look at that cast-list for _The Running Man_? The casting director must have been on acid or something…“I know, let’s have a movie with Professor Toru Tanaka…and Dweezil Zappa!” ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-governors-in-one-movie-before/204687/9 "2003-09-30T17:13:31Z")
And Jim Brown of the NFL hall of fame, Mic Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac, and of course Richard Dawson of Family Feud.