The Best Dads Ever in TV or Movies

[MercuryJones]

In honor of Father's Day, which TV or movie dads best represent the ideal for you of what a father should be?

Here's my choices to start the list:

1. Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)
2. Burt Hummel (Kurt's dad on Glee)

 

[lostnfound]

Bill Cosby as Dr. Huxtable.


The greatest.

 

[MercuryJones]

3. Dan Connor (Roseanne)
4. The dad in Searching for Bobby Fischer

 

[BearBoi]

David Carradine as Caine, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

 

[StationToStation]

Grant, angela's dad from my so called life
when he gave her the grateful dead tickets episode I wanted to cry at the end and have grant adopt me!!

 

[bbjohn]

Ward Cleaver

 

[gsdx]

Tom 'Eddie's father' Corbett
Andy Taylor
Ben Harper
John Walton

 

[jensu846]

Homer Simpson

 

[Triple G]

Hal in Malcom In The Middle

 

[MercuryJones]

Gomez Addams, especially in the two movies.

 

[CowboyBob]

George Truman, Will's father. Played by Sydney Pollack in Will and Grace.

 

[DaddyBadger]

1. Bill Cosby
2. Ward Cleaver

 

[Esquire0399]

Hal in Malcom In The Middle

You beat me. I'll go with Julius from Everybody Hates Chris and Walter Bishop from Fringe.

 

[justsimon]

Benjamin Sisko

 

[ronboy]

Sir Ron's TOP TEN dads on TV.....
(in no particular order)

Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show)
Robert Young as Jim Anderson (Father Knows Best)
Bill Bixby as Tom Corbett (The Courtship of Eddie's Father)
Jim Davis as Jock Ewing (Dallas)
Peter Boyle as Frank Barone (Everbody Loves Raymond)
Maurice Evans as Maurice (Bewitched)
Homer Simpson (The Simpson's)
Dick Van Patten as Tom Bradford (Eight is Enough)
Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright (Bonanza)
Bill Cosby as Dr. Cliff Huxtable (Cosby Show)


Sir Ron's TOP TEN SOAP OPERA dads
(in no particular order)

Theo Goetz as Frederick "Papa" Bauer (Guiding Light)
Santos Ortega as Will "Grandpa" Hughes (As The World Turns)
Macdonald Carey as Dr. Tom Horton (Days of Our Lives)
Bernie Barrow as Johnny Ryan (Ryan's Hope)
Douglass Watson as Mackenzie Cory (Another World)
Robert Colbert as Stuart Brooks (Young and the Restless)
Ron Raines as Alan Spaulding (Guiding Light)
Don Hastings as Bob Hughes (As The World Turns)
Eric Braden as Victor Newman (Young an the Restless)
John McCook as Eric Forrester (The Bold and The Beautiful)

Sir Ron's TOP TEN movie dads
(in no particular order)

Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara (Gone With The Wind)
Robin Williams as Daniel Hilliard (Mrs. Doubtfire)
Don Ameche as Harry Aldrich (Folks!)
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone (The Godfather)
Spencer Tracy as Matt Drayton (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance (The Shining)
Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey (It's A Wonderful Life)
Sean Connery as Henry Jones Sr (Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade)
Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold (The National Lampoon Vacation movies)

 

[doctorsun]

I never had a good relationship with my father, so I was always jealous when I saw great fathers on TV.

Currently, I'd have to agree about Burt Hummel on Glee. When he tore into Finn for using the word "faggy", I was in tears. It was such a great moment...especially at the end of the scene when he patted Kurt on the shoulder and told him the room looked great.

 

[Buckley]

Blake Carrington
Ricky Ricardo

 

[Kester]

Mr C, from Happy Days.

 

[talesofabyssjade]

hmm...some that come to mind lol....

Jim's Dad (american pie)
Goku (dragonball Z)
Isshin Kurosaki (Bleach)
Big Daddy (kickass)

 

[DarkHelios]

Phillip Banks from Fresh Prince. James Avery is awesome.