Acting Presidents

Each of the U.S. presidents, as portrayed on screens large and small.

Music:
Hail to the Chief/Minstrel Boy - Brave Combo
Hail to the Chief - Donn Legge, Cathy Ellis & René Gonzalez
Hail to the Chief (Jeoparody) - Obama Snippets


Presidents:

George Washington: Peter Graves -- "Rebels"
John Adams: Paul Giamatti -- "John Adams"
Thomas Jefferson: Nick Nolte -- "Jefferson in Paris"
James Madison: Burgess Meredith -- "Magnificent Doll"
James Monroe: Morgan Wallace -- "Alexander Hamilton"
John Quincy Adams: Anthony Hopkins -- "Amistad"
Andrew Jackson: David McArdle -- The Hermitage Museum
Martin Van Buren: Nigel Hawthorne -- "Amistad"
William Henry Harrison: wax figure
John Tyler: wax figure
James K. Polk: wax figure
Zachary Taylor: wax figure
Millard Fillmore: Alec Baldwin (eventually)
Franklin Pierce: Porter Hall -- "The Great Moment"
James Buchanan: unknown actor -- "My Favorite Martian"
Abraham Lincoln: Daniel Day Lewis -- "Lincoln"
Andrew Johnson: Van Heflin -- "Tennessee Johnson"
Ulysses S. Grant: Roy Engel -- "The Wild Wild West"
Rutherford B. Hayes: Joseph Hamilton -- "Bat Masterson"
James Garfield: some kid -- school event
Chester Alan Arthur: guy named Joe, with mutton chops
Grover Cleveland: Wilford Brimley -- "The Wild Wild West Revisited"
Benjamin Harrison: some kid -- school event
Grover Cleveland: Pat McCormick -- "Buffalo Bill and the Indians"
William McKinley: Richard Strobel -- "10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America"
Theodore Roosevelt: Robin Williams -- "Night at the Museum"
William Howard Taft: Victor Buono -- "Backstairs at the White House"
Woodrow Wilson: Alexander Knox -- "Wilson"
Warren G. Harding: George Kennedy -- "Backstairs at the White House"
Calvin Coolidge: Ed Flanders -- "Backstairs at the White House"
Herbert Hoover: Larry Gates -- "Backstairs at the White House"
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Bill Murray -- "Hyde Park on Hudson"
Harry Truman: Gary Sinise -- "Truman"
Dwight Eisenhower: Tom Selleck -- "Ike: Countdown to D-Day"
John F. Kennedy: Greg Kinnear -- "The Kennedys"
Lyndon Johnson: Liev Schreiber -- "The Butler"
Richard Nixon: Anthony Hopkins -- "Nixon"
Gerald Ford: Chevy Chase -- "Saturday Night Live"
Jimmy Carter: Dan Aykroyd -- "Saturday Night Live"
Ronald Reagan: James Brolin -- "The Reagans"
George H. W. Bush: James Cromwell -- "W"
Bill Clinton: Dennis Quaid -- "The Special Relationship"
George W. Bush: Josh Brolin -- "W"
Barack Obama: Ron Butler (impersonator)