Will Rogers Jr. Commission on Indian Affairs during the Johnson administration (1967–1969). Rogers had a minor career as an actor and was most noted for playing his father (whom he closely resembled), particularly in "The Story of Will Rogers" (1952), "Wild Heritage" (1958) in which he played a judge, and in 1982 (in voice only) in "The American Adventure" at Disney's Epcot in Florida. He also appeared frequently in the 1950s television anthology series, "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars." Rogers starred as "Tom Brewster" in "The Boy from Oklahoma", a 1954 Western film directed by Michael Curtiz, the basis for the 1957 television series
Will Rogers (Davidson) which time Davidson had frequently attempted to convince Rogers to pose for him, and Rogers had always put it off, referring to Davidson as “you old head-hunter.” Davidson prepared for the commission by requesting Fox Films, for whom Rogers had made many films, (Rogers had acted in dozens of movies, 50 silent and 21 sound) to loan him films that he then screened in his Paris studio, where Davidson “worked, talked and lived nothing but Will Rogers”. He next procured the service of a model built roughly like Rogers and modeled him in clay, nude. He then asked Mrs. Rogers