John Quincy Adams - Legacy - Film and Television

Film and Television

Adams occasionally is featured in the mass media. In the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles (1976), he was portrayed by David Birney, William Daniels, Marcel Trenchard, Stephen Austin, Steven Grover and Mark Winkworth. He was also portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams; the HBO series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in its portrayal.

Ancestors of John Quincy Adams
16. Joseph Adams
8. Joseph Adams
17. Abigail Baxter
4. John Adams, Sr.
18. John Bass
9. Hannah Bass
19. Ruth Alden
2. President John Adams
20. Thomas Boylston
10. Peter Boylston
21. Mary Gardner
5. Susanna Boylston
22. Benjamin White
11. Ann White
23. Susanna
1. John Quincy Adams
24. Thomas Smith
12. William Smith
25. Susanna Boylston
6. Reverend William Smith
13. Abigail Fowle
3. Abigail Smith
28. Daniel Quincy
14. Colonel John Quincy
29. Anna Shephard
7. Elizabeth Quincy
30. Reverend John Norton
15. Elizabeth Norton
31. Mary Mason

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