Film and television
Real
- John A. Macdonald: in 1979 TV movie Riel , played by Christopher Plummer (Note: Plummer is a great-grandson of John Abbott), In 2011, John A.: Birth of a Country.
- Played by Robert Christie in the 1966 CBC Television miniseries Reluctant Nation
Robert Wallace Christie was a Canadian actor and director.
Reluctant Nation is a Canadian historical docudrama television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1966.
- Pierre Trudeau: in the 1980 film The Kidnapping of the President , played by Aubert Pallascio
- In the 2002 CBC mini series Trudeau, four Prime Ministers were portrayed
- Pierre Trudeau, played by Colm Feore
- Jean Chrétien, played by Guy Richer (during the film's time frame, Chrétien was a cabinet minister under Trudeau)
- Lester Pearson, played by William Parsons
- John Turner, played by Karl Pruner
Colm Feore OC, is an American-born Canadian stage, film and television actor. A 13-year veteran of the Stratford Festival, he is best known for his Gemini-winning turn as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the television miniseries Trudeau, as well as roles such as Detective Martin Ward in Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Lord Marshal Zhylaw in The Chronicles of Riddick, Pope Julius II on The Borgias, First Gentleman Henry Taylor on 24, General Ted Brockhart on House of Cards, and Declan Gallard on 21 Thunder. He is a Prix Iris and Screen Actors Guild Award winner and a Genie Award nominee.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien is a Canadian politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to December 12, 2003.
Guy Richer is a Canadian actor. Aside from a few other roles, he is notable for his portrayal of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in the 2002 television miniseries Trudeau.
- Pierre Trudeau: in 2005 CBC mini series Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making, played by Stéphane Demers
- In the 2006 CBC mini series Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story, two Prime Ministers were portrayed
- John Diefenbaker, played by Paul Gross
- Mackenzie King, played by Andy Jones
John George Diefenbaker was a Canadian politician who served as 13th prime minister of Canada from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative leader after 1930 and before 1979 to lead the party to an election victory, doing so three times, although only once with a majority of seats in the House of Commons of Canada.
Paul Michael Gross, OC is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer, and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He is known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the television series Due South as well as his 2008 war film Passchendaele, which he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in. During Due South's final season, Gross acted as executive producer in addition to starring, wrote the season three opener and finale, the two part series finale and wrote and sang songs for the show, some of which can be found on the two Due South soundtracks. He later found success with another Canadian TV series, Slings and Arrows. He also produced one film with Akshay Kumar called Speedy Singhs starring Camilla Belle and Vinay Virmani.
Andrew Jordan Jones is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, and a former member of CODCO.
- John Diefenbaker, in the 1997 CBC miniseries The Arrow played by Robert Haley
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in a 2011 episode of Murdoch Mysteries , played by Brian Paul [1] (the actual Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a cameo portraying a police officer in that episode)
- Played by Jack Creley in the 1966 CBC Television miniseries Reluctant Nation
Jack Creley was an American-born Canadian actor. Although most prominently a stage actor, he also had film and television roles.
- Mackenzie King, played by Dan Beirne in the 2019 film The Twentieth Century [2]
Sir John Alexander Macdonald was the first prime minister of Canada. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career which spanned almost half a century.
Riel is a 1979 Canadian biographical television movie about Métis leader Louis Riel.
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer is a Canadian actor whose career has spanned six decades, beginning with his film debut in Stage Struck (1958).
Fictional
Fictional Prime Ministers of Canada have been portrayed in television series, including Rideau Hall , South Park , Jacob Two-Two , The Best Laid Plans and The West Wing , televisions films such as H2O , and motion pictures such as Canadian Bacon , My Internship in Canada , Buried on Sunday , Long Shot and London Has Fallen .
Rideau Hall is a Canadian television series broadcast begun in 2002 on CBC Television. It starred Bette MacDonald, Fiona Reid, Jonathan Torrens, Joe Dinicol, and Rejean Cournoyer.
South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for the Comedy Central television network. The show revolves around four boys—Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick—and their exploits in and around the titular Colorado town. Much like The Simpsons, South Park uses a very large ensemble cast of recurring characters. It became infamous for its profanity and dark, surreal humor that satirizes a wide range of topics towards a mature audience. Parker and Stone developed the show from The Spirit of Christmas, two consecutive animated shorts. The latter became one of the first Internet viral videos, ultimately leading to South Park's production.
Jacob Two-Two is a Canadian animated TV series based on a trilogy of books written by Mordecai Richler that first aired September 1, 2003 on Canadian children's channel YTV and Qubo in United States and aired on the French Canadian network VRAK.TV as Jacob Jacob. Nelvana and 9 Story Entertainment produced the series' 62 episodes in association with YTV and Salter Street Films. Funbag Animation Studios, Atomic Cartoons, and Nitrogen Studios provided animation. The series was cancelled on December 29, 2006. Jacob Two-Two is one of the first cartoons to have aired on Qubo.
