Popular culture

• The Hollywood movie The Patriot (2000) is based very loosely on Marion's biography. The protagonist "Col. Benjamin Martin", played by Mel Gibson, was an amalgam of Gen. Marion, Gen. Andrew Pickens, Col. Thomas Sumter and Col. Daniel Morgan of Virginia.
  


• A television version of Marion's exploits, a mid-1950s Walt Disney series called The Swamp Fox, was a less-successful follow up to Disney's Davy Crockett series. As with Crockett, it featured the lead actor (Leslie Nielsen) singing the show's theme song.
  


• Swamp Fox is referred to in the TV series Knight Rider episode "Knightmares" as "the greatest tracker of all time".
  


• Robert Heinlein used the name "Swamp Fox" for a troop-carrying starship, briefly mentioned at the end of his novel Starship Troopers.