Peter Stuyvesant - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Peter Stuyvesant is the major antagonist in the 1938 Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson musical Knickerbocker Holiday, in which he sings the song "September Song". In the stage production he was portrayed by Walter Huston; in the much-altered 1944 film version he was portrayed by Charles Coburn in his only singing role.
• In Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization, Peter Stuyvesant is one of the leaders of the Dutch colonies. Adriaen van der Donck is the other possible Dutch leader. In Sid Meier's Colonization computer game, Stuyvesant can be elected to the Continental Congress, allowing the player to build Custom Houses which automate trade with the mother country.
• Stuyvesant was a key figure in the Belgian comic strip Suske en Wiske in episode 269, "De Stugge Stuyvesant".
• The old time radio show Duffy's Tavern had an episode which used a newly discovered diary of Stuyvesant as a plot device.
• A cigarette brand by Imperial Tobacco with British American Tobacco is named Peter Stuyvesant. These cigarettes are popular in Australia, Greece, New Zealand, Zambia and South Africa.
• In Charles Bukowski's 1978 novel Women, the main character, Henry Chinaski, vomits on Peter Stuyvesant's burial vault cover before a poetry reading at St. Mark's Church.
• The American actor John Smith, who starred in two NBC western television series Cimarron City was descended from Stuyvesant.
• The American singer-songwriter ‪Loudon Wainwright III‬ is a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant‬ (his great great grandfather John Howard Wainwright having married Margaret Stuyvesant).