J. EDGAR HOOVER -- your favorite portrayal?

[papyrusbeetle]

Mine is BILLY CRUDUP in PUBLIC ENEMIES (2009)

farthest "out there" is Bob Hoskins in NIXON (1995)

Stephen Root isn't bad in ALL THE WAY (2016)

Leonardo DiCaprio gives us a lot of details and background, but sometimes it's agony to watch him, in J. EDGAR (2011)

[laffite]

How about J. Edgar Buchanan, He would make a great Hoover. He would look terrible in a dress. That's important.

[Princess of Tap]

Broderick Crawford-- he did a take off also on this on SNL.

[papyrusbeetle]

On SNL, is that the one where he was in bed asleep with a teddy bear?

It was great. Everything BROD ever did was great.

[Vautrin]

The real Hoover, dead in an open casket.