Sammy Davis Jr., Hamtree Harrington, and Ethel Waters in Rufus Jones for President (1933)
Rufus Jones
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Poll: Fictional African-American Presidents
Barack Obama turns 60 on 4th August, 2021. He was the first elected African-American President of the U.S. There have been a few instances when a black person was designated as the President in the movies/TV shows. Some of them were even before he became the President.
Which of these character portrayals as African-American Presidents do you think is the best?
Make Your Choice
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Douglass Dilman -
Tom Lister Jr. and Sonita Henry in The Fifth Element (1997)
President Lindberg -
Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact (1998)
President Beck -
Dennis Haysbert in 24 (2001)
President David Palmer -
D.B. Woodside in 24 (2001)
President Wayne Palmer -
Chris Rock in Head of State (2003)
Mays Gilliam -
Danny Glover in 2012 (2009)
President Thomas Wilson -
Blair Underwood in The Event (2010)
President Elias Martinez -
Jamie Foxx and Joey King in White House Down (2013)
President Sawyer -
Samuel L. Jackson in Big Game (2014)
US President William Alan Moore -
Alfre Woodard in State of Affairs (2014)
President Constance Payton -
Morgan Freeman in Angel Has Fallen (2019)
President Trumbull -
Mark Dacascos and Louis Gossett Jr. in Solar Attack (2006)
President Ryan Gordon -
Louis Gossett Jr. and Kirk Cameron in Left Behind III: World at War (2005)
President Gerald Fitzhugh -
Vivica A. Fox and Daniel Baldwin in Crossbreed (2019)
President Ellen Henricksen -
Steven Williams in SeaQuest 2032 (1993)
President of the United States -
Richard Pryor in The Richard Pryor Show (1977)
U.S. President -
Terry Crews in Idiocracy (2006)
President Camacho
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