Editing J. Edgar Hoover (section)

==Theater and media portrayals==

Hoover has been portrayed by numerous actors in films and stage productions featuring him as FBI Director. The first known portrayal was by [[Kent Rogers]] in the 1941 [[Looney Tunes]] short "[[Hollywood Steps Out]]". Some notable portrayals (listed chronologically) include:
* Hoover portrayed himself (filmed from behind) in a cameo, addressing FBI agents in the 1959 film ''[[The FBI Story]]''.
* [[Dorothi Fox]] "portrayed" Hoover in disguise in the 1971 film ''[[Bananas (film)|Bananas]]''.
* [[Broderick Crawford]] and [[James Wainwright (actor)|James Wainwright]] in the [[Larry Cohen]] film ''[[The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover]]'' (1977).
* [[Dolph Sweet]] in the television miniseries ''[[King (miniseries)|King]]'' (1978).
* [[Sheldon Leonard]] in the [[William Friedkin]] film ''[[The Brink's Job]]'' (1978).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/02/16/brinks-job-is-a-winner-about-losers/49438bfe-4fee-46cc-b92d-ddf347c5c241/|title='Brink's Job' Is a Winner About Losers|last=Martin|first=Judith|author-link=Judith Martin|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 16, 1979|access-date=July 16, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Ernest Borgnine]] in the television film ''[[Blood Feud (1983 film)|Blood Feud]]'' (1983).
* [[Vincent Gardenia]] in the television miniseries ''[[Kennedy (1983 miniseries)|Kennedy]]'' (1983).
* [[Jack Warden]] in the television film ''[[Hoover vs. The Kennedys]]'' (1987).
* [[Treat Williams]] in the television film ''[[J. Edgar Hoover (film)|J. Edgar Hoover]]'' (1987).
* [[Kevin Dunn]] in the film ''[[Chaplin (film)|Chaplin]]'' (1992).
* [[Pat Hingle]] in the television film ''[[Citizen Cohn]]'' (1992).
* [[Richard Dysart]] in the television film ''Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair'' (1993)
* [[Kelsey Grammer]] portrayed Hoover, with [[John Goodman]] as Tolson, in the [[Harry Shearer]] comic musical ''J. Edgar!'' at The Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in [[Santa Monica]] (1994).<ref>[https://latw.org/title/j-edgar ''J Edgar!'']. [[LA Theatreworks]]. Retrieved September 28, 2020.</ref>
* [[Richard Dysart]] in the theatrical film ''[[Panther (film)|Panther]]'' (1995).
* [[Bob Hoskins]] in the [[Oliver Stone]] drama ''[[Nixon (film)|Nixon]]'' (1995).
* [[Wayne Tippit]] in two episodes of ''[[Dark Skies]]'' (1996) and (1997).<ref>
{{cite news
|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0554702/
|work= Dark Skies
|title= We Shall Overcome
|year= 1996}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite news
|title= The Warren Omission
|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0554700/
|work= Dark Skies
|year= 1996}}
</ref>
* David Fredericks in the episodes "[[Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man]]" (1996) and "[[Travelers (The X-Files)|Travelers]]" (1998) of ''[[The X-Files]]''.
* David Fredericks in the episode "[[Millennium (season 3)|Matryoshka]]" (1999) of ''[[Millennium (television series)|Millennium]]''.
* [[Ernest Borgnine]] in the theatrical film ''[[Hoover (film)|Hoover]]'' (2000).
* [[Larry Drake]] in the Robert Dyke film ''[[Timequest (film)|Timequest]]'' (2002).
* [[Ryan Drummond]] voiced him in the [[Bethesda Softworks]] game ''[[Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth]]'' (2005).
* [[Billy Crudup]] in the [[Michael Mann (director)|Michael Mann]] film ''[[Public Enemies (2009 film)|Public Enemies]]'' (2009).
* [[Enrico Colantoni]] in the television miniseries ''[[The Kennedys (miniseries)|The Kennedys]]'' (2011).
* [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] in the [[Clint Eastwood]] biopic ''[[J. Edgar]]'' (2011).
* William Harrison-Wallace in the [[Dollar Baby]] 2012 screen adaptation of [[Stephen King]]'s short story, "[[The Death of Jack Hamilton]]" (2001).<ref>
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|url= http://www.thedeathofjackhamilton.com
|title= 'The Death of Jack Hamilton' official movie website
|access-date= May 7, 2012
|url-status=dead
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130507021516/http://thedeathofjackhamilton.com/
|archive-date= May 7, 2013}}
</ref>
* [[Rob Riggle]] in the "Atlanta" (2013) episode of [[Comedy Central]]'s ''[[Drunk History]]''.<ref>
{{cite news
|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788120/
|work= Drunk History
|title= Atlanta
|year= 2013}}
</ref>
* [[Eric Ladin]] in the [[HBO]] series [[Boardwalk Empire (season 4)|''Boardwalk Empire'', season 4]] (2013).<ref>
{{cite web
|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2778300/
|work= Boardwalk Empire
|title= Season 4}}
</ref>
* [[Michael McKean]] in [[Robert Schenkkan]]'s play ''[[All the Way (play)|All the Way]]'' at the [[American Repertory Theater]] (2013).
* Sean McNall in the movie ''[[No God, No Master]]'' (2014).<ref>
{{cite web
|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1485761/
|title= No God, No Master|publisher=IMDb
|year= 2014}}
</ref>
* [[Dylan Baker]] in [[Ava DuVernay]]'s [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] biopic ''[[Selma (film)|Selma]]'' (2014).
* [[Stephen Root]] in the [[HBO]] television film ''[[All the Way (2016 film)|All the Way]]'' (2016).
* [[T. R. Knight]] in the [[National Geographic (American TV channel)|National Geographic]] television series ''[[Genius (American TV series)|Genius]]'' (2017).
* [[William Forsythe (actor)|William Forsythe]] in the [[Amazon MGM Studios|Amazon]] television series ''[[The Man in the High Castle (TV series)|The Man in the High Castle]]'' (2018).
* [[Stephen Stanton]] in the film ''[[Bad Times at the El Royale]]'' (2018)
* [[Martin Sheen]] in the film ''[[Judas and the Black Messiah]]'' (2021).
* Giacomo Baessato in the [[The CW|CW]] television series ''[[Legends of Tomorrow]]'' (2021).