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    What actor portrayed three different sitting US presidents in three different films?

    Question #106833. Asked by clemmydog. (Jul 04 09 11:06 AM)


    ArlingtonVA

    		Jason Robards played FDR, Lincoln, and Grant.

    (And Hal Holbrook played one real and two fictional presidents.)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_who_played_President_of_the_United_States



    Jul 04 09, 11:25 AM
    clemmydog

    		Robards protrayed U.S. Grant as a Civil War general, not as a sitting president. Keep looking.

    Jul 04 09, 11:36 AM
    ArlingtonVA

    		I'm probably wrong, but it looks like Robards played President Grant, not Gen. Grant, in "The Legend of the Lone Ranger."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_the_Lone_Ranger_(1981_film)

    I'm perfectly prepared to be wrong again. :)





    Jul 04 09, 12:42 PM
    clemmydog

    		You are right and I am wrong. But I was looking for a different actor who played Regan, LBJ and Nixon.

    Abjectly, Clemmydog

    Jul 04 09, 12:50 PM
    daBomb619

    		Rip Torn.

    He played Richard Nixon in the 1979 TV mini-series "Blind Ambition.

    He played Ronald Reagan in the 1982 film "Airplane 2: The Sequel".

    He played Lyndon Johnson in the 1987 TV movie "J. Edgar Hoover".

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001800/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078575/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083530/
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093289/

    Though I'm not sure that I would count a mini-series and a TV movie as "films", per se.

    Jul 04 09, 1:52 PM

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