On Film and Television
Wendt has been portrayed in a number of movies and television shows about the US space program, including:
- Apollo 13, 1995, played by Endre Hules – While being fit into his space suit, astronaut Jim Lovell (played by Tom Hanks) chats with Wendt, playfully mocking and repeating Eisele's pun from Apollo 7: "I vonder vere Guenter Vendt."
- From the Earth to the Moon, 1998, played by Max Wright
- In Search of Liberty Bell 7, Discovery Channel documentary, 1999 – Wendt participated in the expedition to raise Gus Grissom's sunken Mercury capsule
Wendt has several moments of screen time in the 1998 documentary One Giant Leap.
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