Your personal choice of actors who have portrayed Lincoln

[Craig Hipkins]

Lets not forget Frank McGlynn who played Lincoln in 'The Prisoner of Shark Island' [1936]
According to IMDB, McGlynn basically made a career of playing Lincoln in the movies.
He played Abe in THIRTEEN films and shorts between 1914-1939

I forgot about McGlynn. Here is a pic I found on wikipedia.

Craig

[LincolnMan]

Wonder who the fellow was who played Lincoln in the Geiko commercial? That was such a hoot? And Mary!

[Craig Hipkins]

Wonder who the fellow was who played Lincoln in the Geiko commercial? That was such a hoot? And Mary!

That was a great one Bill!

[emma1231]

Oh, of cs. McGlynn in "Pris. of Shark Island"! That film, despite its corn and historic liberties about Dr. Mudd, remains my favt. Lincoln movie. I know I should be ashamed of myself for that, but I'm not. I wish it was historically correct, of course. McGlynn was Irish, and in some of his films as Lincoln a tiny brogue can be detected. Mark and I noticed it in a short called "Lincoln in the White House," in which he recited the Gettysburg Address! McGlynn played character roles in quite a few movies, too, by the way.

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I had forgotten that Mr. Peck was a very effective Lincoln in that mini-series, which I loved, accuracy or not.
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Mr. Peck himself forgot that he played Lincoln on radio until I reminded him. [Hallmark Playhouse.] I sent him a cassette recording of it, which he took the time to listen to. He wrote to thank me and to tell me he had forgotten all about it and wondered why the director didn't have him use some sort of "rustic" accent. "Oh, well," he wrote, "it's all in the past. I don't think we put any dents in Mr. Lincoln's reputation."

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Wonder who the fellow was who played Lincoln in the Geiko commercial? That was such a hoot? And Mary!


There's a NY State Lottery commercial running these days, showing Washington, Lincoln, Jackson, Grant, and Ben Franklin having a great time at a nighttime beach party with the young crowd. The resemblances to their counterparts -- especially Lincoln -- is fantastic. (However, I detected that only Abe seems to have had a bit too much to drink, which I didn't feel very good about.) I'll have to try to grab it on the DVR one of these nights.

[RJNorton]

Yesterday's Washington Times had an article on actors who have played Lincoln.

[J. Beckert]

Joseph Leisch Jr. was a dead ringer I thought. He was in "They've Killed President Lincoln", the David L. Wolper TV docudrama. The man who played Stanton was also a doppelganger. The resemblances were uncanny.

[HerbS]

I am still going with Raymod Massey!

[LincolnMan]

I watched Walter Houston's 1930 portrayal of Abraham Lincoln this week. I had to think that in 1930 it must have seemed pretty good. It holds up fairly well, today I'd say.

[emma1231]

My apologies to Fritz Klein, Jim Getty, and Roy Dotrice, among others. Huston is still my all-time favt. Lincoln. Too bad the film was so awful, esp. the scenes with Una Merkel (Ann Rutledge).
LEisch was pretty bad in the Wolper show, which encouraged the thought that Stanton might have been beh. the murder. (Other than that, it was a great show!) The Stanton of the piece was the young Robt. Prosky, who told me in person that he devised his own make-up. Reminds me of Joe Henabery, who also did his own make-up for Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" . Griffith's film marred by Abe reprising words from the second inaugural from the Prez. box at the theatre. Real corn. Ian Keith as JWB also corney as hell, but that's the way Booth had been depicted , as a cardboard villain. (By the way, 26 yrs. later Ian Keith played Booth's father on Bway in a Bway play ("Edwin Booth"), and Massey played his dad 17 yrs. after "Abe Lincoln in Ill." (in "Prince of Players")

[LincolnMan]

My apologies to Fritz Klein, Jim Getty, and Roy Dotrice, among others. Huston is still my all-time favt. Lincoln. Too bad the film was so awful, esp. the scenes with Una Merkel (Ann Rutledge).
LEisch was pretty bad in the Wolper show, which encouraged the thought that Stanton might have been beh. the murder. (Other than that, it was a great show!) The Stanton of the piece was the young Robt. Prosky, who told me in person that he devised his own make-up. Reminds me of Joe Henabery, who also did his own make-up for Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" . Griffith's film marred by Abe reprising words from the second inaugural from the Prez. box at the theatre. Real corn. Ian Keith as JWB also corney as hell, but that's the way Booth had been depicted , as a cardboard villain. (By the way, 26 yrs. later Ian Keith played Booth's father on Bway in a Bway play ("Edwin Booth"), and Massey played his dad 17 yrs. after "Abe Lincoln in Ill." (in "Prince of Players")

Great information. Thank you for sharing!

[LincolnMan]

But was the film so bad for 1930? Yes, it contained "bad" history. Wonder how it was perceived in 1930? Did the audience walk away admiring Lincoln? Broad questions, I know.

[Gene C]

Ask Laurie or Roger

[LincolnMan]

Oh Gene you're bad!

[RJNorton]

Ask Laurie or Roger

Laurie was sitting in the row in front of me, and the one thing I recall about her reaction was her excitement over seeing the daguerreotype of Ann Rutledge. She was unaware of its existence.

LINCOLN HOLDING THE ANN RUTLEDGE DAGUERROTYPE

[Joe Di Cola]

Where's this going? HaHa