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American presidentLyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) has been a subject of various works ofmedia andpopular culture.

• In the "I Dream of Jeannie" Episode; Season 3, Episode 13: My Son, The Genie. POTUS visits Maj. Nelson's home. The President is shown twice, from behind only, wearing a western hat, implying it is LBJ, who was president at the time.
• In the sketch comedy showThe Whitest Kids U'Know Johnson is portrayed by Sam Brown, and is shown encouraging the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
• In an episode ofThe Venture Bros., Johnson and his wife "Lady Hawk" appear as super villains.
• Johnson appeared as an animated caricature of himself in an episode ofThe Flintstones entitled, "Shinrock A Go-Go", that originally aired on December 3, 1965.
• In the "I Dream of Jeannie" Episode; Season 3, Episode 13: My Son, The Genie. POTUS visits Maj. Nelson's home. The President is shown twice, from behind only, wearing a western hat, implying it is LBJ, who was president at the time.
• In the showKing of the Hill,Hank Hill's boss Buck Strickland is heavily inspired byLyndon B. Johnson in terms of look and personality such as his greed and lecherousness.
• Clancy Brown portrays Johnson in season 3 of theNetflix seriesThe Crown.
• Lyndon B. Johnson is portrayed as a preserved talking head in a jar in an episode of the seriesFuturama.

• In theOdd Thomas series of novels byDean Koontz, Johnson appears as one of the famous ghosts that haunt the titular character's home town of Pico Mundo, still wearing the hospital gown he had on when he died. When Johnson realizes Odd can see him, he responds by mooning him.
• In the short story collectionGirl With Curious Hair byDavid Foster Wallace, the piece entitled "Lyndon" describes a large extent of Johnson's political career through his interactions with the narrator, an administrative assistant who rises to become a senior staff member and close friend of Johnson's.
• In Kevin Given's novel "Last Rites: The Return of Sebastian Vasilis" Lyndon Johnson is turned into a vampire. The novel was adapted into a series of comic books "Karl Vincent; Vampire Hunter" and "Files of Karl Vincent" Files of Karl Vincent #1 tells how Lyndon became a vampire.

• Johnson's rise to the presidency inspired the satirical playMacBird! byBarbara Garson.^{[citation needed]}
• Johnson's relationship withMartin Luther King Jr. and his support of theVoting Rights Act are depicted inChristopher Hampton's playAppomattox, which debuted at theGuthrie Theater in Minneapolis in September 2012.^[1]
• Johnson's time in office between the assassination of JFK and his reelection in 1964 is portrayed in theRobert Schenkkan playAll The Way. It premiered at theOregon Shakespeare Festival. It was later followed by a production at theAmerican Repertory Theater starringBryan Cranston as Johnson.^[2] The play won aTony Award for Best Play in 2014.
• Johnson is portrayed as aShakespearean hero the one-man playReflections of a Tough Texan: The Legacy of Lyndon Johnson byPierce Wallace, which premiered at theSanta Monica Playhouse in 2025.^[3][4]

• The War Game (1966): never directly named, but shown in photographs when narration references the President of the United States.
• In 1968Ward Kimball directed a two-minute animated short calledEscalation, which criticizedLyndon B. Johnson'sVietnam War policy by portraying him as a giant head whosephallic nose rise to erection until it explodes. The short is unique for being the only animated cartoon made independently from theDisney Studios by one ofDisney's Nine Old Men. The short is further noticeable for its satirical edge and political and erotic content.^[5][6]
• LBJ (1968): subject of Cubanpropaganda film
• The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977): played byAndrew Duggan
• King (1978, TV): played by Warren Kemmerling
• Hair (1979): The song "Initials/LBJ" mentions Johnson in the lyrics repeatedly
• Kennedy (1983, TV): played by Nesbitt Blaisdell
• The Right Stuff (1983): played byDonald Moffat
• Robert Kennedy & His Times (1985, TV): played byG. D. Spradlin
• Hoover vs. The Kennedys (1987, TV): played byRichard Anderson
• J. Edgar Hoover (1987, TV): played byRip Torn
• LBJ: The Early Years (1987, TV): played byRandy Quaid
• LBJ (1988, TV PBS): played byLaurence Luckinbill
• JFK (1991): played by Tom Howard and John William Galt (voice)
• A Woman Named Jackie (1991): played by Brian Smiar
• Forrest Gump (1994): archive footage, voice-over by John William Galt
• Thirteen Days (2000): played by Walter Adrian
• Path to War (2002): played byMichael Gambon
• RFK (2002): played byJames Cromwell
• The Kennedys (2011): played by Don Allison
• The Butler (2013): played byLiev Schreiber
• Parkland (2013): played by Sean McGraw
• Selma (2014): played byTom Wilkinson
• All the Way (2016, TV movie): played byBryan Cranston
• Last Rites: The Return of Sebastian Vasilis^[7](2016) played by David Raizor
• Jackie (2016) : played byJohn Carroll Lynch
• Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016): played by Sean McGraw
• LBJ (2017): played byWoody Harrelson

• Over 60 songs have been released about or referencing LBJ.^{[8][deprecated source]}
• Many spoken word, comedy, and speeches about LBJ were released on vinyl records.

• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004): played byRichard McGonagle.

• Cultural depictions of Lyndon B. Johnson

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