Who was your favorite fictional President?

[terrya]

There have been plenty of films with a fictional President of the United States.

Who was your favorite?

Mine: Henry Fonda in "Fail Safe". Sure, he ended up ordering the destruction of New York, but he was a good man who ended up doing the right thing for humanity.

[onebigbadwulf]

1. Obvious one...Harrison Ford

in AirForce one


or Pullman in ID4.

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. Certainly not *Bush.

[IdaBriggs]

3. I've got two.

Martin Sheen on the West Wing, and Kevin Kline in Dave.

[Spinzonner]

4. Good Choice, another ...

Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove

[bowens43]

5. Bush is my least favorite and least believable

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. President David Palmer

on "24".

[sniffa]

7. same here

i couLdn't remember his name though.

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. The guy's bulletproof.

Survived an assassination attempt, a biological attack, a psychotic ex-wife, a mutiny in his cabinet, thwarted a nuclear holocaust and a nationwide biological war. He's the shite!

[liberalmuse]

9. Jeff Bridges...

in 'The Contender'.

[Richardo]

10. President Merkin Muffley

"Dmitri? Dmitri? Could you turn down the music a little? That's fine."

[trotsky]

11. DAVE!

The movie with Kevin Kline when a dead-ringer for the president (who suffers a stroke or something) steps in and instantly transforms the chief executive from a dour old bastard into a beloved president.

"I once caught a fish... THIS BIG!"

[baldguy]

12. Andrew Shepherd

"The American President"

[Shopaholic]

13. Martin Sheen-West Wing

[Rainbowreflect]

18. My favorite as well.

The speech he gives near the end of the movie is one I want to hear from a "real President".

[quisp]

14. Peter Sellers

as President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Stangelove.

[SmileyBoy]

15. Who wrote the screenplay for Dr. Strangelove???

Whoever he is, that guy is a pure genius just for the idea of Merkin Muffley alone.

[Richardo]

16. Terry Sothern

The dialog is genius...

[jdonaldball]

17. Gerald Ford

[Kid_A]

19. Not from a movie, but Gary "The Smiler" Callahan

from the comic TRANSMETROPOLITAN. He's an evil piece of shit who has people killed to boost his approval ratings, but he presents this aura of "Everything is great, don't worry" to the rest of the country. He even jerks off into the American flag. He's one of the greatest comic-book villains in recent years, but hardly anyone has read TRANSMET.

[DelawareValleyDem]

20. Jack Nicholson

Mars Attacks

"I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad. "

[Aristus]

21. Josiah "Jed" Bartlet and Andrew Shepard.

Bartlet: "You may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the arrogant tightass club, but in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits!"

Shepard: "The American people, for reasons passing understanding, aren't able to relate guns to gun-related crime."

And they both said: "Someday, someone is going to have to explain to me the value of a proportional response."

'Course, they had the same speech-writer, Aaron Sorkin.

Aaron Sorkin, :yourock: !!!!!!