The President — The Pelican Brief Character Profile

The President appears in 11 titles

• Superman II (1980) — character page
• The Pelican Brief (1993)
• Air Force One (1997) — character page
• Deep Impact (1998) — character page
• Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) — character page
• Scary Movie 3 (2003) — character page
• Scary Movie 4 (2006) — character page
• Monsters vs Aliens (2009) — character page
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012) — character page
• Big Game (2014) — character page
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) — character page

Character Facts

Played by

Robert Culp

Appears in

The Pelican Brief (1993)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• The President — Power Chief Of Staff — Fletcher Coal (Tony Goldwyn)

  Coal is presented as a senior official within the president's administration.

  The ending reports that the president's chief of staff, Fletcher Coal, has resigned.

• The President — Power Institutional Opponent — Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts)

  The president's intervention obstructs the investigation connected to Darby's theory.

  The FBI director reveals that the president requested the FBI to back off after Darby's brief reached the White House.

• The President — Narrative Subject Of Investigation — Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington)

  The president becomes part of Grantham's broader political investigation.

  Grantham learns that the president requested the FBI to back off and later reports the political consequences in his televised interview.

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• Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts)
• Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington)
• Thomas Callahan (Sam Shepard)
• Gavin Vereek (John Heard)
• Smith Keen (John Lithgow)
• Fletcher Coal (Tony Goldwyn)
• Curtis Morgan (Jake Weber)
• Alice Stark (Cynthia Nixon)
• Bob Gminski (William Atherton)
• Matthew Barr (John Finn)
• Edwin Sneller (Stanley Anderson)
• Marty Velmano (Anthony Heald)