Is portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar (2011), Broderick Crawford and James Wainwright in "The Private Files Of J. Edgar Hoover" (1977), Pat Hingle in Ciudadano Cohn (1992), Richard Dysart in Panther (1995), Bob Hoskins in Nixon (1995), Dylan Baker in Selma (2014), Stephen Root in All the Way (2016), Ernest Borgnine in Hoover (2000) and Billy Crudup in Enemigos públicos (2009).