Top 10 Movie Presidents

Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's W. But W. is just the most recent in a storied cinematic history of Commanders-in-Chief on the big screen. A look at the most notable performances.

Peter Sellers as President Markin Muffley (1964)

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Calling out Sellers' role as President Muffley in the Stanley Kubrick masterpiece Dr. Stranglove is almost unfair: he also played Group Captain Lionel Mandrake and former Nazi scientist Dr. Strangelove, all three them facing nuclear annihilation after a crazed general orders a rogue attack on the Soviet Union. The darkly comedic and frantic film captures Cold War period paranoia in way few others have. It was nominated for 4 Oscars.

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