Your personal choice of actors who have portrayed Lincoln

[Karen S. Campbell]

I've never been thoroughly satisfied with any Hollywood movie about Lincoln. I though D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln" (1930) was awful! I was very disappointed because Walter Huston was such a great actor but I thought he was terrible in this movie! There are many historical inaccuracies in it. Anyway, I would never have trusted D. W. Griffith to portray Lincoln accurately (cf "The Birth of a Nation"!!). I think Holbrook and Massey are the best actors. Gregory Peck, although a great actor, was too handsome. Hollywood seems to want to depict the mythic Lincoln and not the historic Lincoln. I"m hoping that Spielberg's "Lincoln" and the portrayal by Daniel Day-Lewis, who is an incredible actor, will finally give Lincoln his due. I thought that the casting of Sally Fields as Mary was genius.