As noted above, Vam Buren was portrayed (although as a candidate ) in Amistad. I have to admit that I never heard of “The Gorgeous Hussy”.
Let me just say that a movie named Dick, with Kisten Dunst and Michelle Williams? That features something called Deep Throat?
I was SO expecting something else.
The movie Dick does not neglect the penis/oral sex double entendres.
In the TV movie “Tecumseh: The Last Warrior”, David Clennon potrays General William Henry Harrison.
And Ed Sala portrays Colonel Richard Johnson.
Harrison of course would go on to become president and Johnson would go on to become Van Buren’s vice-president and the only one ever selected by the Senate because he failed to win a majority of the electoral vote. People didn’t like Johnson much.
There’s been at least one. It starred Burgess Meredith as Jemmy, Ginger Rogers as Dolly, and David Niven as Aaron Burr.
Actually, Van Buren was the sitting president at the time of Amistad’s events, and so Hawthorne’s portrayal should count for the OP.
Later on in the movie he was running for re-election, in the election of 1840. (He lost, though we don’t see that happen in the film.)
Basil Ruysdael (who?) plays Andrew Jackson in the Disney Davy Crockett:
Irecall several U.S. Grant portrayals through the years.
David Hemmings plays Andrew Jackson in the TV movie of Davy Crockett:
Actually, you can taop into the IMDB under “Characters” and get listings. I tried “John Adams” and got this (William Daniels played him even more times than I’d remembered):
Heck, even James K. POlk gets three entries:
http://www.imdb.com/Find?select=Characters&for=James+K.+Polk&Go.x=14&Go.y=8
Alan Cummings played FDR in Reefer Madness: The Musical.
Relevant hijack:
Who has done the best on-screen portrayal of an actual president?
I don’t have an answer, off the top of my head, but I thought I’d throw it out there while I cogitated.
Actually, i have fond memories of watching Henry Fonda in Young Mister Lincoln on TV with my grandfather, but I haven’t seen it in years.
The Right Stuff also had Ike in it.
Donald Moffat does a great LBJ in The Right Stuff, too, but I think it’s before he’s president.
See Post #3.
Cliff Robertson played a WWII-era JFK in PT-109.
Of the ones I’ve seen, I’d nominate Anthony Hopkins in Nixon. I never believed for one second that I wasn’t watching Nixon, which suprised me, seeing as how Hopkins looks nothing like him, and they didn’t make too much of an effort to hide that fact.