Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln

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[edit] Statues of Abraham Lincoln

[edit] Outside the United States

Statues of Lincoln can be found in other countries. In Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, is a 13-foot (4 m) high bronze statue, a gift from the United States, dedicated in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The U.S. received a statue of Benito Juárez in exchange, which is in Washington, D.C. Juárez and Lincoln exchanged friendly letters, and Mexico remembers Lincoln's opposition to the Mexican-American War. There is also a statue in Tijuana, Mexico, showing Lincoln standing and destroying the chains of slavery. There are at least three statues of Lincoln in the United Kingdom — one in London by Augustus St. Gaudens, one in Manchester by George Grey Barnard and another in Edinburgh by George Bissell. In Havana, Cuba, there is a bust of Abraham Lincoln in the Museum of the Revolution, a small statue of him in front of the Abraham Lincoln School, and a bust of him near the Capitolio.

[edit] Fictional depictions

[edit] 1900-1909

The first known motion picture based on Mr. Lincoln was 1908 film The Reprieve: An Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln. Directed by Van Dyke Brooke, the film shows Lincoln pardoning a sentry who fell asleep on duty, a theme that would be depicted repeatedly in other silent era shorts.

[edit] 1910-1919

As with the first picture on Lincoln, most of the films in this decade featured Lincoln pardoning sleeping sentries. Films included The Sleeping Sentinel (1910), Abraham Lincoln's Clemency (1910), When Lincoln Was President (1913), When Lincoln Paid (1913), and The Sleeping Sentinel (1914).

[edit] 1920-1929

[edit] 1930-1939

  • The Plainsman 1936 where actor Frank McGlynn Sr. played Lincoln in the opening sequence of the film.

[edit] 1940-1949

[edit] 1950-1959

  • "Mr. Lincoln", a five-part TV episode appearing in 1952-53 on Omnibus, with Royal Dano as Lincoln.
  • "How Chance Made Lincoln President", a 1955 episode of TV Reader's Digest.

[edit] 1960-1969

  • "The Chase", episode 2.8 of Doctor Who, which aired in 1964, included Robert Marsden as Abe.

[edit] 1970-1979

[edit] 1980-1989

[edit] 1990-1999

  • The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln (1995)
  • An Abraham Lincoln robot acts as a defense attorney for an African-American child in Bebe's Kids (1992).
  • Episode 20 of the animated children's television show Animaniacs, which first aired in 1993, included a segment called "Four Score and Seven Migraines Ago". Peter Renaday voiced the President.
  • In the 1993 film Coneheads, Dan Aykroyd's character dresses as Lincoln for a costume ball, as the President's stovepipe hat effectively covers his cone-shaped head.
  • In an episode of the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show, Abraham Lincoln is portrayed (in an openly historically inaccurate skit) as the man who designed the American flag. The actor playing Lincoln spoke in a thick New York accent.
  • In the Pinky and the Brain episode Ambulatory Abe the Brain attempts to take over the world by convincing the world that Lincoln has been reincarnated into the statue at the Lincoln Memorial by refitting it for ventriloquilism and placing it on the top of a tank.
  • In an episode of Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory, Dexter faces his rival, Mandark, using the statue of Lincoln from Mount Rushmore that he has brought to life, and fights Mandark who is using the giant animated statue of George Washington.
  • Lincoln appears as an occasional guest host on Histeria!, especially in two episodes centered around the Civil War. Pepper Mills mistakes him for Lurch from The Addams Family, and one sketch shows the Civil War politics like an episode of Seinfeld, with Lincoln as Jerry and George B. McClellan as George Costanza. On Histeria!, Abe acts like Johnny Carson.
  • In The DC Comics Elseworld title Superman: A Nation Divided, a reimagining of Superman's origins as coming into his powers during the Civil War, President Lincoln features heavily. He is first seen reading field reports by General Ulysses S. Grant that describe "Atticus" Kent's special abilities. Lincoln then assumes Grant has been drinking, until Kent himself shows up at the white House. After Kent helps win the war, he accompanies Lincoln to the Ford Theater, where he prevents John Wilkes Booth's assassination attempt. After this Lincoln is seen to be one of the most popular presidents in history, serving two full terms.
  • In the 1991 Red Dwarf episode "Meltdown", Lincoln is an android in the "Hero World" section of an alien android theme park.
  • In 1998, Scott McCloud wrote and drew the graphic novel The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln, in which the president seemingly returns to life in the present day; however, it is in fact a disguised Benedict Arnold, working for aliens in a plot to conquer the world. He is unmasked by the true Lincoln, who also returns from the dead.

[edit] 2000-2007

  • In the Family Guy episode Holy Crap, after Brian Griffin mentions the Old Testament story in which "God told Abraham to kill Isaac," a cutaway shows President Abraham Lincoln shooting bartender Isaac from the Television Show Love Boat.
  • In the film Bedazzled (2000), Brendan Fraser's character makes a deal with the Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) for seven wishes. Upon wishing to be President of the United States, he is transformed into Lincoln and finds himself in Ford's Theatre.
  • Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (2001)
  • In Gangs of New York (2002), Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend a play of Uncle Tom's Cabin in which an actor is suspended in mid-air (with his body apparently backwards) to address the blackface actors. An audience member interrupts him, yelling, "Leave the nigger dead!" as the immigrant audience members begin throwing objects at Lincoln and rioting.
  • In The Amazing Screw-On Head (2002), Lincoln is Screw-On Head's boss. The comic book has been adapted into an animation for a TV pilot, with the aim of turning it into a series.
  • Humorous shorts featured on the Happy Tree Friends and Friends cartoon on G4TV portray Lincoln as someone who drinks too much. The shorts are called "Hard Drinkin' Lincoln," and at the end of every episode, Booth is always shooting Abe.
  • Director Steven Spielberg is currently planning a movie on Lincoln with Liam Neeson in the leading role. The movie will be based on a biography of Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. [1]
  • In the fourth episode of Pamela Anderson television series Stacked, Ed Trotta portrays Lincoln in "Gavin's Pipe Dream".
  • In episode 508 of the series South Park, David Blaine brings the memorial statue of Lincoln to life. The giant stone Lincoln must be killed by a giant stone John Wilkes Booth.
  • In one episode of Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, Eddy says, "That. In the water. Is that a frog?", and Ed replies, "Kind of looks like Abraham Lincoln, Eddy".
  • Also parodied as a main character on the show Clone High, Abe is a clone of Abraham Lincoln
  • Lincoln is featured again in the Family Guy episode North by North Quahog at the end of the episode when Peter and Lois are having sex atop Mount Rushmore. He is portrayed as the loser of the four statues.
  • In the Image graphic novel Tales From the Bully Pulpit, Lincoln is brought into a battle by Theodore Roosevelt and the ghost of Thomas Edison, the two main characters, as their secret weapon.
  • The Immortal, a character from Invincible, bears a certain resemblance to Lincoln. Robert Kirkman followed through on this, and in a back-up story from issue 25, confirmed that the Immortal was, in fact, Abraham Lincoln.
  • In the comic book series Ex Machina, New York City mayor Mitchell Hundred faces a political crisis when the Brooklyn Museum displays a portrait of Lincoln with the word "Nigger" imposed over it.
  • The webcomic Thinkin' Lincoln features a portrayal of Lincoln as the main character.
  • A daily political comedy podcast at TheAbrahamLincolnLogs is represented as being written by Lincoln.
  • The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, a Flash animation-based music video, features a zombie version of Lincoln as one of the combatants.
  • Though The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy is set in modern times, Lincoln is strangely the current President of the United States in the story's plot. One episode even features him as Grim's replacement in Billy and Mandy's group of friends.
  • Lincoln can be seen during the end credits of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, in which he appears to light the fuse of a rocket that crash-lands on the Moon, stranding the characters. In the episode "Circus", Meatwad shaped himself into a "Wayne Gretsky" which in fact more closely resembled "Samurai Lincoln," a katana-wielding Abraham Lincoln.
  • In the 2005 alternative history mockumentary C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, Abraham Lincoln flees after the South wins the war. He is captured in blackface makeup and later declares, "Now I too am a Negro".
  • In an episode of The Venture Bros., the ghost of Lincoln requests the help of Hank and Dead to save the current president from being killed.
  • In Futurama episode # "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch" Evil Lincoln and other various fictional villans break free of the holoshed aboard Zap Branigan's flagship, the Nimbus, and go on a destructive spree.

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