Kiefer Sutherland & More Actors Who Played Multiple Presidents on TV
Hail to the Pretend Chiefs! With Presidents’ Day upon us—falling on February 22 this year—we’re honoring the television actors who have played multiple real-life and fictitious U.S. presidents on TV over the years.
Geoff Pierson, for example, has played the leader of the free world in two different TV shows starring Kiefer Sutherland. And Sutherland is no stranger to presidential roles himself. In fact, he’s headed back to the small-screen Oval Office this year in the upcoming Showtime anthology series The First Lady.
Scroll down to see these actors and more…
Beau Bridges
President Paul Hollister, 10.5 (2004) and 10.5 Apocalypse (2006)
President Hank Landry, Stargate SG-1 (2007)
President Ralph Warner (pictured), Homeland (2020)
Steven Culp
President Edward Taylor, Impact (2009)
President John F. Kennedy, Perception (2012)
President Joshua Reiss, The Last Ship (2018)
William Daniels
President John Quincy Adams (pictured), The Adams Chronicles (1976)
President John Adams, The Rebels (1979)
William Devane
President John F. Kennedy, The Missiles of October (1974)
President Henry Hayes, Stargate SG-1 (2004)
President James Heller (pictured), 24: Live Another Day (2014)
Hal Holbrook
President Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln (1974–76, as seen here), North and South (1985–86)
President George Washington, George Washington (1984)
President Maxwell Monroe, Under Siege (1986)
Kris Kristofferson
President Abraham Lincoln (pictured), Tad (1995)
President Andrew Jackson, Texas Rising (2015)
Tim Matheson
President John F. Kennedy, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (2000)
President Ronald Reagan (pictured), Killing Reagan (2016)
Benito Martinez
President Benjamin Castillo, The Unit (2009)
President Alvarez, Shooter (2018)
President Robert Diaz, The Blacklist (2019)
Geoff Pierson
President Wayne Banning, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (2001)
President John Keeler, 24 (2005)
Former President Cornelius Moss, Designated Survivor (2017)
Kiefer Sutherland
President Tom Kirkman (pictured), Designated Survivor (2016–19)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, The First Lady (2022)
Rip Torn
President Richard Nixon (pictured), Blind Ambition (1979)
President Ulysses S. Grant, The Blue and the Gray (1982)
Steven Weber
President John F. Kennedy, The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990)
President George Washington, Reefer Madness (2005)
President Thomas Jefferson (pictured), Sleepy Hollow (2015)
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