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 in Saranac Lake, New York was renamed as the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital by the National Vaudeville Artists association. On November 4, 1948, the United States Post Office commemorated Rogers with a three-cent postage stamp. In 1979, it issued a United States Postal Service 15-cent stamp of him as part of the "Performing Arts" series. The Barrow, Alaska airport (BRW), located about 16 miles (26 km) from the location of the fatal airplane crash, is known as the Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport. The final ship of the Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarines, , launched in 1966 and commissioned the