Editing Anton Cermak (section)

== In popular culture ==
* A hastily produced movie about Cermak, ''[[The Man Who Dared (1933 film)|The Man Who Dared]],'' was released within months of his death.
* There was a [[Television film|made-for-TV movie]], ''The Gun of Zangara,'' about Cermak's assassination. It was originally a two-part episode of ''[[The Untouchables (1959 TV series)|The Untouchables]],'' where it had the title "The Unhired Assassin." Cermak had a major role in the story as an honest man, and was played by [[Robert Middleton]].
* Cermak is mentioned in [[Stephen Sondheim]]’s play ''[[Assassins (musical)|Assassins]]'' during the song "How I Saved Roosevelt."
* Cermak and his rise to the mayoralty has also been mentioned in [[Jeffrey Archer]]’s novel ''[[Kane and Abel (novel)|Kane and Abel]]''.
* Part of the episode "[[Objects in Motion]]" of the television series ''[[Babylon 5]]'' is based on the circumstances of Cermak’s death.<ref>''Babylon 5 Magazine'' #4</ref>
* Cermak is referenced by [[Kelsey Grammer]]’s fictional Chicago mayor, Tom Kane, in several episodes of the Starz TV series ''[[Boss (TV series)|Boss]]''.
* In "Red Team III," the seventh episode in the second season of [[HBO]]'s [[The Newsroom (U.S. TV series)|''The Newsroom'']], Will McAvoy ([[Jeff Daniels]]) references Anton Cermak.
* The history-based crime novel ''True Detective'', the first in [[Max Allan Collins]]' Nathan Heller series, includes a fictionalized account of the Cermak slaying.
* In the first episode of the second season of ''[[F Is for Family]]'', an [[Adult animation|adult animated]] [[sitcom]] produced for [[Netflix]], the fictional school of Anton Cermak Tech is mentioned during a broadcast.
* In [[The Untouchables (1993 TV series)|''The Untouchables'']] TV series (1993–1994), Cermak is assassinated by Zangara—a crazy lone gunman targeting FDR—after Ness prevents the assassin they believe was sent by Capone. After the Untouchables return to Chicago, their further investigation reveals a probable third gunman, whose shot actually is responsible for Cermak's death, and was a Capone hitman. The first half of the next episode partly involves Ness' Untouchables identifying the actual gunman (a Capone hitman named Charlie Ross), who goes into hiding after a raid by the Untouchables. As the Untouchables arrange to bring him in for testimony, he is gunned down, thereby forever silencing the truth about the mob killing the mayor.