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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIn honor of the late great James Garner - favorite fake president from a movie / book / series?
He was the democratic president in the 1996 flick "My Fellow Americans" opposite Jack Lemmon's Republican president.
My pick would be him, or maybe Dennis Haysbert's David Palmer from 24.
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In honor of the late great James Garner - favorite fake president from a movie / book / series? (Original Post)
Initech
Jul 2014
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Iggo
(47,552 posts)1. President Lonestar from that 4th of July movie.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)2. Jed Bartlett from The West Wing
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)3. Yes...yes...
But the credit has to go to Sorkin's writing of the series.
I STILL haul out my copy of the series when the outside world seems too insane.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,834 posts)4. Alan Alda in Canadian Bacon was pretty good.
Kind of a whacked-out, poll-obsessed, ethics-unencumbered GHWB.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)5. Ronald Reagan....
his preformance as a bumbling idiot was worthy of a Oscar!
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)6. President Jordan Lyman from Fletcher Kneble's "Seven Days in May"
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)7. Henry Fonda in Fail-Safe
I don't know if I could have made the same choice he did.
trueblue2007
(17,217 posts)8. i forgot he was in that movie. i loved it.