Joe Biden

This page is a record of a political career caught on film rather than an acting career, and it is worth reading it that way. Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1942, represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009, served as the 47th vice president under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017, and was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025.

Every credit here is an appearance as himself, and the great majority is archive footage assembled by other filmmakers for their own arguments. That distinction matters before browsing: a documentary using thirty seconds of a senator at a hearing is not a performance, and it tells you nothing about the man beyond what the editor wanted it to say.

What the list does show is reach. The same figure surfaces in a film about a Supreme Court justice, a film about American drug policy, a film about Silicon Valley fraud, a September 11 retrospective and a filmed inauguration special. Five decades of public life leaves a long tail of footage behind it, and a catalogue like this one is where that tail becomes visible.