1. Harrison Ford – “Air Force One” (1997)
2. Morgan Freeman – “Deep Impact” (1998)
3. Michael Douglas – “The American President” (1995)
4. Bill Pullman – “Independence Day” (1996)
5. Kevin Kline – “Dave” (1993)
6. Dennis Quaid – “American Dreamz” (2006)
7. Bruce Greenwood – “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” (2003)
8. James Cromwell – “The Sum of All Fears” (2002)
9. Jack Nicholson – “Mars Attacks” (1996)
10. Jeff Bridges – “The Contender” (2000)
I’ve seen eight of the ten. I think the most surprising performance wa Jeff Bridges, I was really impressed. And Kevin Kline’s perfomance was just a nice heart warming performance. Sometimes I sing his shower song from the movie, “Hail to the Chief, he’s the one we say hail to, Hail to the Chief because he keeps himself so clean . . .”
Personally, even though he’s on the small screen of TV, I’ve always favored Dennis Haysbert from 24.
When I hear Hail to the Chief, I always think “Hail to the chief; he’s the chief and he needs hailing. Hail to the chief; now everybody hail like crazy…”
That’s from My Fellow Americans, with Jack Lemmon, James Garner, and Dan Akroyd. All three play presidents: two former and one current. Cute movie.