United States Secret Service - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In the Line of Fire - A 1993 psychological thriller film in which Clint Eastwood plays a Secret Service Agent who had been on Presidential guard detail during the John F. Kennedy assassination.
• The Wild Wild West - A highly popular Western action television series (1965-9), set in the late 1860s, starring Robert Conrad and Ross Martin as Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon. Two reunion telemovies were screened in 1979 and 1980, followed by a 1999 theatrical feature with an all-new cast.
• Guarding Tess - Film, Nicolas Cage played an agent assigned to guard a former First Lady.
• To Live and Die in L.A. - Film about a Secret Service agent (William L. Petersen) determined to bring down a counterfeiter (Willem Dafoe) by any means necessary.
• Warehouse 13 - A SciFi series about two Secret Service agents who are taken from their old job of guarding the President and instead are sent to track down artifacts with supernatural powers.
• 24 - Involves many characters and operations within the Secret Service as they protect the Presidents throughout the series.
• Resident Evil 4 - Leon S. Kennedy is revealed to have become a Secret Service agent after the events of Resident Evil 2. His mission in the game is to find the President's daughter, who's been kidnapped.
• The Sentinel - Thriller starring Michael Douglas in which Secret Service agents investigate a potential assassination attempt and traitor in the Service.
• First Kid, a 1996 movie where Sinbad and Timothy Busfield appear as Secret Service agents in charge of protecting the President's son.
• The Bodyguard, a 1992 film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Costner stars as a former Secret Service Agent-turned-bodyguard who is hired to protect Houston's character, a music star, from an unknown stalker.
• First Daughter, a 2004 film starring Katie Holmes as the daughter of the President and follows her to college.
• Vantage Point, the film focuses on an assassination attempt on the President of the United States as seen from a different set of vantage points through the eyes of eight strangers.
• Secret Service,The first-person shooter video game, developed by Cauldron HQ and published by Activision Value for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360.
• NCIS, a TV series about the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In season 1 one of the main characters, Special Agent Caitlin Todd, is introduced as a secret service member in the 1st episode. After she is made a permanent member of the NCIS team her past as a secret service agent is referenced frequently.
• The West Wing - This series offers a glimpse into the inner workings of a fictional White House administration, with members of the Secret Service regularly making appearances.