14 Best Fictional Movie Presidents

11. Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) - Dr Strangelove

The bitingly satiric Cold War classic from Stanley Kubrick saw Sellers on virtuoso form. Playing three characters including the eponymous Strangelove along with the Adlai Stevenson-inspired President Muffley.

Indecisive and seemingly out of his depth, Muffley is a President having something of a hard time facing up to the very real threat of nuclear Armageddon. As the crisis worsens so the nuggets of advice grow ever more absurd – and horrific. With Sellers sublime Jeckyll and Hyde like turn as the two men at the centre of it all, simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.

And that classic line:

“You can’t fight in here. This is the war room!”