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)