The most stealthily Reagan-ish movie among the scores Reagan viewed at Camp David might have been the Republican John Hughes’s 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which Reagan loved.

Other notable Reagan films for Warner Bros. include the famous “Knute Rockne– All American” and “Santa Fe Trail,” both in 1940. As with “Kings Row,” Reagan had the lead in neither film.

The films in which the character of Reagan has made an appearance have reflected that bitterness. In 2003, CBS hired left-wing activist James Brolin, Barbra Streisand’s husband, to play Reagan ...

We don’t hear much about Reagan’s movies, or even have many ways to see them. Even Turner Classic Movies doesn’t circulate them much. However, in the ‘40s and ‘50s, he was a household name.

Over the years famous US Presidents are given the movie biopic treatment from Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln to Oliver Stone’s Nixon. And now it’s Ronald Reagan’s turn in a film that charts ...

Before he became the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan first rose to fame as a Hollywood actor, starring in numerous movies and later on TV shows.