Name an actor, in a movie or TV show, who played someone non fictional.

2 to start:

Valerie Bertinelli played Pancho Barnes (same named movie)

Taron Egerton played Elton John (Rocketman movie)

Veronica Cartwright played Ethel Kennedy (in "Robert Kennedy and His Times,” a CBS-TV miniseries, 1985)

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Lou Diamond Phillips played Ritchie Valens (La Bamba)

Fredd Wayne played Benjamin Franklin on Bewitched*

(*I remembered the episode but I did have to go track down the guy’s name)

Austin Butler - Elvis Presley

Joaquin Phoenix (Johnny Cash)

Will Geer played George Washington on Bewitched

Will Geer played George Washington on Bewitched

Oh wow! I never knew that was Will?! Awesome!

Michael Lembeck played radical activist Abbie Hoffman

Austin Butler - Elvis Presley

That total hotty Jacob Elordi played Elvis too. :)

Bewitched had others. I had to look up who played Napoleon--it was Henry Gibson. This and the other two were probably brought to the future either by Aunt Clara or Esmeralda. Edit: just noticed that Uncle Arthur conjured up Napoleon. I'm pretty sure Aunt Clara wanted an electrician and got Ben Franklin.

There are situations where Samantha ended up in the past--I don't remember which historic figures she encountered then.

Michael Gross, playing Steven Keaton, played Thomas Jefferson on Family Ties (it was an Alex dream)

Woody Harrelson playing Lyndon B Johnson in the movie LBJ . He was wearing big prostetic type ears I'm sure. Woody's ears normally weren't that big, I noticed as soon as I started watching the movie.:lol:

Denzel Washington as Malcolm Little (Malcom X) in Malcolm X (1992)

Denzel Washington as Malcolm Little (Malcom X) in Malcolm X (1992)

Yes. He played that role very well.

Jamie Fox as Ray Charles in the movie " Ray" .

That total hotty Jacob Elordi played Elvis too. :)

The total total hotty Kurt Russell was Elvis also.

Kurt Russell was Herb Brooks in Miracle

Reese Witherspoon was June Carter Cash in Walk the Line

David Schwimmer played Robert Kardashian in The people vs. OJ Simpson .

Ben Kingsley in 1982 film Gandhi

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