9 Bizarre Onscreen Richard Nixons You Forgot About

As far as motion-picture show and TV portraiture of veridical - life presidents go , few are cracked than Richard Nixon – flesh out with with more prosthesis than any other commanding officer - in - chief . This weekend , Kevin Spacey takes on the job inElvis & Nixon , a charming little movie structured around the group meeting of those marquee names . opinion abound : as one reassessment put it , " he ’s mostly justGeneric President . "

Tricky Dick ’s been depicted byplenty of wacky actorsover the long time , so we revisited the best , sorry , and weirdest of the bunch .

The head of Richard Nixon inFuturama

Is there a president whose headway looks best in a shock ? Probably not . In sequence like " A Head in the Polls " and " Decision 3012 , " the show turn up that Nixon is still fun to kick around – even over a thousand year since he leave office .

Frank Langella inFrost/Nixon

Ron Howard ’s slick adaptation of Peter Morgan ’s play turns presidential politics into a media biff mate – sounds intimate , right ? Any of our current presidential candidates could probably take a few slimy lessons from Frank Langella ’s Nixon . Despite having leave office in shame , he ’s still a cagey , cagey manipulator of the press , and the movie ’s best scenes involve him outsmarting Michael Sheen ’s playboy newscaster . There ’s a reason they called him " Tricky Dick . "

John Cusack inLee Daniels' The Butler

A looking at at one black man ’s tenure in the White House , threaded through the lives of several presidents , could be award - worthy material . For Lee Daniels , well known for creatingEmpire , it ’s the basis for camp . The Butleris exceedingly silly , and Cusack as President Nixon palpate like troll . The player looks , sound , and moves nothing like the guy . Whatever – he ’s disturbed ! American account ’s more fun when everyone act like Nicolas Cage inCon Air .

Robert Wisden inWatchmenand Mark Camacho inX-Men: Days of Future Past

If you take a politician to abide in for the honourable failures of American political science , Nixon is your man ! InWatchmen , Zack Snyder ’s adaption of Alan Moore ’s deconstructivist opus , a conspiratorial attempt on New York City bring the U.S. together with Russia and counterbalances the uneven reputation of our 37th president ( who is elected for a third full term in this alternate timeline).X - Men : Days of Future Pastpiles on harder . The prequel narrative see Nixon indorse an regular army of robots that will control the mutant population . So much for end the Vietnam War .

Brian Huskey inBoJack Horseman

BoJack needs a Nixon stand - in when he ’s film the movie - within - the - show , Secretariat , and who better to trifle the prez than his outlawed son , who also happens to be a security precaution at the Nixon Museum ? It ’s all too meta for word .

Dan Hedaya inDick

This offbeat teenager comedy chase two BFFs who literally stumble into a frankfurter - walking gig for Checkers , the President of the United States ’s cocker spaniel . Dan Hedaya may or may not have been digest to fiddle Richard Nixon . He nails all of Dick ’s tic , and his curmudgeonly voice is spot - on . His Nixon grounds this goofy reimagining of history firmly in reality .

Philip Baker Hall inSecret Honor

Robert Altman made a lot of films , so you ’ll be forgiven for missing this 1984 political drama that takes the frame of a 90 instant monologue deliver by a overwrought whiskey - wassail Richard Nixon , played by the great Philip Baker Hall . It ’s a stripped - down , stage - y function in some way , but Altman ’s guidance and Hall ’s magnetic , unwarranted - eyed take on Nixon make it substantive viewing for both history and movie buffs .

Anthony Hopkins inNixon

Anthony Hopkins does n’t really resemble Richard Nixon – like , at all . And , count on whom you involve , Oliver Stone ’s rich , Shakespearian take on the president ’s life is n’t exactly ahistorically accuraterepresentation of the period , either . But , like most movies Stone made in the ' 90s , it has a bouncing , energizing energy to it that carries you through all 192 transactions of scheming , politicking , and questionable wigs . Plus , I mean , when else are you go to see Hannibal Lecter in the White House ?

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