The American President
2000 • 1 Season“The American President” is a series that aired on PBS in 2000 profiling 41 U.S. chief executives, using exclusive interviews with Presidents Clinton, Bush, Ford, and Carter. Well known figures lend their voice to presidents of the past who lived before sound recordings, including: Colin Powell, Bob Dole, Walter Cronkite, Ben Bradlee, John Glenn, James Carville, Andrew Young, and the Rev. Billy Graham. Narrated by Hugh Sidey.
Top Series Cast
Walter Cronkite
as George Washington
Morley Safer
as John Adams
Andrew Young
as Thomas Jefferson
Dale Bumpers
as James Madison
Robert MacNeil
as James Monroe
George Will
as John Quincy Adams
James Carville
as Andrew Jackson
Mario Cuomo
as Martin Van Buren
Lloyd Bentsen
as William H. Harrison
Charlie Rose
as John Tyler
Howard Baker
as James K. Polk
Tim Russert
as Millard Filmore
Sargent Shriver
as Franklin Pierce
David Gergen
as James Buchanan
Paul Simon
as Abraham Lincoln
Don Imus
as Andrew Johnson
Norman Schwarzkopf
as Ulysses S. Grant
John Glenn
as Rutherford B. Hayes
Billy Graham
as James Garfield
Dan Rostenkowski
as Chester A. Arthur
Lowell Weicker
as Grover Cleveland
Alexander Haig
as Benjamin Harrison
George Shultz
as William McKinley
William F. Buckley Jr.
as Theodore Roosevelt
Colin Powell
as William H. Taft
George Mitchell
as Woodrow Wilson
Ben Bradlee
as Warren G. Harding
Bill Weld
as Calvin Coolidge
Bob Dole
as Herbert Hoover
Gerald Ford
as Self
Jimmy Carter
as Self
George H. W. Bush
as Self
Bill Clinton
as Self
James Roosevelt Jr.
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Full cast details coming soon!