Your personal choice of actors who have portrayed Lincoln

[Joe Di Cola]

Young Mr. Lincoln, with Henry Fonda, makes Lincoln look as though he were cognitively challenged. It is one of the worst Lincoln films ever made (my opinion, only). I have the Holbrook performance on DVDs that I had burned from original cc I had from the year when Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln appeared on TV. Holbrook had Lincoln's Hoosier accent down perfectly. The pitch rose whenever he got excited, and that fits in with descriptions from contemporaries that heard Lincoln speak. The make-up was quite good--Holbrook's face had a slightly different shape than Lincoln's but this did not matter. Raymond Massey's Lincoln performace in the film version of Robert Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois is (I think) the 2nd best. Third, I would choose Royal Dano's depiction of Lincoln in the 6-part series on Lincoln done for Omnibus in the 1950s. All of the others pale in comparison.