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Question: How many actor have played a president !?
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Interesting question, but there is no ready answer!. Especially if you include all the STAGE actors who have played presidents!. And other actors who have played fictional presidents, not only real presidents!.

Think of Henry Fonda, who played a real president (Lincoln) and a fictional one (Fail-Safe)!. Probably more actors have played Lincoln than any other president!. Think of at least a dozen in major films; then another dozen at least for Washington and Jefferson and Adams!. Four or five have played FDR; three and four played Kennedy and Johnson!.

Here is just an example of movies--there are more for TV shows!.:

Actors who played real presidents

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Actor President Movie
Duke R!. Lee
Frank Windsor
Jeff Daniels
Terry Layman George Washington In the Days of Daniel Boone (1923)
Revolution (1985)
The Crossing (2000)
The Patriot (2000)
William Daniels
Pat Hingle John Adams 1776 (1972)
Independence (1976)
Ken Howard
Ken Howard
Nick Nolte Thomas Jefferson 1776 (1972),
Independence (1976)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Burgess Meredith James Madison Magnificent Doll (1946)
Morgan Wallace
Charles Waldron James Monroe Alexander Hamilton (1931)
The Monroe Doctrine (1939)
Grant Mitchell
Anthony Hopkins John Quincy Adams The Monroe Doctrine (1939)
Amistad (1997)
Charlton Heston
Basil Ruysdael
Dave McArdle
G!.D!. Spardlin Andrew Jackson The President's Lady (1953, with Heston as Jackson)
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
The Buccaneer (1958, with Heston playing Jackson once again)
Houston: The Legend of Texas (1986)
Nigel Hawthorne Martin Van Buren Amistad (1997)
James Seay
Wolfgang Greese
David Clennon William Henry Harrison Brave Warrior (1952)
Tecumseh (1972)
Tecumseh (1994)
Edwin Stanley
Ian Wolfe
Addison Richards James K!. Polk The Monroe Doctrine (1939)
California (1946)
The Oregon Trail (1959)
Allan Cavan
James Gammon Zachary Taylor Rebellion (1936)
One Man's Hero (1999)
Millard Vincent Millard Fillmore The Monroe Doctrine (1939)
Porter Hall Franklin Pierce The Great Moment (1944)
Joseph Henabery
J!. Herbert Frank
George A!. Billings Sr!.
Frank McGlynn Sr!.
John Carradine
Walter Huston
Henry Fonda
John Anderson
F!. Murray Abraham
Raymond Massey
Robert V!. Barron
Jason Robards
Hal Holbrook
Lance Henriksen
Brendan Fraser
Tim Willett Abraham Lincoln The Birth of a Nation (1915)
In the Days of Buffalo Bill (1922)
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
The Plainsman (1936)
Abraham Lincoln
Of Human Hearts (1938)
Young Mr!. Lincoln (1939)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)
North and South (1985)
North and South: Book II (1986)
Dream West (1986)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
The Perfect Tribute (1991)
The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1998)
Bedazzled (2000)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2006)
Van Heflin Andrew Johnson Tennessee Johnson (1942)
Jason Robards
Kevin Kline Ulysses S!. Grant The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
Wild Wild West (1999)
John Dilson Rutherford B!. Hayes Buffalo Bill (1944)
Francis Sayles James A!. Garfield The Night Riders (1939)
Emmett Corrigan Chester A!. Arthur Silver Dollar (1932)
Stuart Holmes
Pat McCormick Grover Cleveland The Monroe Doctrine (1939)
The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
Roy Gordon Benjamin Harrison Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)
Brian Keith William McKinley Rough Riders (1997)
Sidney Blackmer
John Alexander
Brian Keith
Williams Phipps
Tom Berenger
Robin Williams Theodore Roosevelt The Monroe Doctrine (1939)
Fancy Pants (1950)
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
Rough Riders (1997)
Night at the Museum (2006)
Walter Massey
Wilford Brimley William Howard Taft The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
The Rise of Theodore Roodevelt (2008)
Alexander Knox
Bob Gunton Woodrow Wilson Wilson (1944)
Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
Ian Wolfe Calvin Coolidge The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Jack Young
Ralph Bellamy
Edward Hermann
Jason Robards
Edward Hermann
John Voight
Kenneth Branagh Franklin D!. Roosevelt Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977)
F!.D!.R!.:The Last Year (1980)
Annie (1982)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Warm Springs (2005)
E!.G!. Marshall
Ed Flanders
Gary Sinise
David Patrick Kelly Harry S!. Truman Collision Course: Truman vs!. MacArthur (1976)
MacArthur (1977)
Truman (1995)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Carroll O'Connor
Robert Beer
Keene Curtis
Tom Selleck Dwight D!. Eisenhower Kelly's Heroes (1970)
The Right Stuff (1983)
IQ (1994)
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
Cliff Robertson
William Devane
James Franciscus
William Petersen
Bruce Greenwood John F!. Kennedy PT 109 (1963)
The Missiles of October (1974)
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981)
The Rat Pack (1998)
Thirteen Days (2000)
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