List of actors who played Richard Nixon on screen

The Final Days was made for TV as well, I think?

Oooh, I didn't realize Rip Torn had played Nixon. I'd really like to see that.

Still have never seen Secret Honor, and probably won't be doing so in the next five days, so voted Hedaya.

Where is whoever played him (terribly) in J. Edgar?

how did dabney coleman not get cast as nixon?

"He shines from up above, and sends us all his love..."

Which one was that song from?

I did something similar a few years ago, but limited it to the big two:

And Then You Destroy Yourself: Nixon at the Movies

Yours is much more complete, and doesn't have hideous tags visible in the list.

I've only seen five of the films, plus Aykroyd. Yeah, the guy in J. Edgar is dreadful. I was going to say you missed Jason Robards in Washington Behind Closed Doors, but I forgot he's playing Nixon under another name--otherwise, one of the best. I think there might be a Nixon cameo in one of the two Hunter S. Thompson films, either the Bill Murray or Terry Gilliam.

1. Hopkins, 2. Smith, 3. Hall or Heydaya (the first is hard to take; don't remember Heydaya--guessing he'll win), 4. Langella (didn't like him).

It's Where the Buffalo Roam: Brian Cummings, just credited with "voice" on the IMDB page. I remember the scene, but I thought you actually see him too.

Cusack was a weird choice to play Nixon. in fact the celebrity casting in general for that movie was wack (movie itself not great either).

only one of these actors played nixon's severed, cryogenically-preserved head rampaging through a future new york atop a the gleaming metal body of a giant battlemech, so billy west is the only choice i feel comfortable making

The only bit w nixon in Buffalo is at the end in the bathroom and yeah he's offscreen iirc

Bizarro otm tbh

Its the mosr faithful rendition

yeah, it really rings true for me

think nixon is onscreen in where the buffalo roam; also think his only line is "fuck the doomed".

Doesn't he get a pie in the face?

(xpost) That's the way I remember the scene too; you see Nixon in profile, from Thompson's POV. The joke depends on you knowing it's Nixon, and I'm not sure that hearing just the words would be enough.

Cusack was a weird choice to play Nixon.

And a weird choice to play Brian Wilson too, for that matter.

"You got to chill, Mike..."

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Wd have voted West if I'd seen this poll in time.

Frank Langella is terrible, as I learned again during a rewatch of Frost/Nixon yesterday afternoon. Couldn't finish it.

It's a bad, evil piece of work. And Broadway/London audiences eat that guy's shit up.

I guess Peter Riegert doesn't count bcz he played Nixon as a congressman.

watched Secret Honor last night. In general I'm not fond of Altman's "let's film a play" era, while the material might be good the direction always feels perfunctory, like he's expending the least amount of effort possible. That being said, PBH does a good job replicating Nixon's rambling fuming and fumfering, complete with freudian-slip malapropisms, creative swearing, and blubbering self-pity. It doesn't really tell a story or go anywhere - you could dip in and out of this and not miss anything crucial - it works as a character study, and PBH is great with the finger- and jowel-wagging. The underlying premise that Nixon chose "secret honor" by defying a cabal of mysterious masters (numerous references to "The Committee of 100" and "Bohemian Grove") and instead falling on his sword and sacrificing himself in order to end the war and ensure the sanctity of the Presidency is ridiculous on its face - although it is the kind of victimized self-mythologizing thing he was prone to. The ending montage of resounding "FUCK 'EM!"'s is pretty great.

I was a little confused about where it was supposed to take place at first, as well. Apparently it's his New Jersey home - but why would he have portraits of fucking LBJ and Ike in his study? He hated both of them

masochism