Dan White - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The assassinations were the basis for a scene in the 1987 science fiction movie RoboCop in which a deranged former municipal official holds the Mayor and others hostage and demands his job back.
  • Actor Josh Brolin was nominated for an Academy Award for playing Dan White in Gus Van Sant's 2008 biographical film Milk, which opened with wide release from Focus Features. The film suggests that Milk believed White may have been a closeted gay man. However, there is no evidence to suggest that Dan White was homosexual. Sean Penn won the academy award for best actor. Penn plays Milk in the film.

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