In Popular Culture
- Above and Beyond – LeMay is portrayed by Jim Backus (film, 1952)
- Strategic Air Command – the character of General Ennis C. Hawkes, based on LeMay, is played by Frank Lovejoy (film, 1955)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – the character of General Buck Turgidson, played by George C. Scott, is based in part on LeMay (film, 1964)
- The Missiles of October – LeMay is played by Robert P. Lieb (TV, 1974)
- Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb – LeMay is portrayed by Than Wyenn (TV, 1980)
- Kennedy – played by Barton Heyman (TV series, 1983)
- Race for the Bomb – played by Lloyd Bochner (TV series, 1987)
- Hiroshima played by Cedric Smith (TV, 1995)
- Thirteen Days – LeMay is played by Kevin Conway (film, 2000)
- Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis – played by Kevin Conway (video, 2001)
- Black Wind by F. Paul Wilson (fiction), in which LeMay appears in connection with the Hiroshima bombing.
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