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Call It Magic (1975)
This is the making-of the film.
Streets of Fire (1984)
Character name "Billy Fish"
Galaxy High School: The Beef Who Would Be King (1986)
This title inspired the title of this episode
ALF: The Boy Next Door (1988)
Referenced during the Tanner's charades game.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Indestructible Man (1992)
Tom: "The Man Who Would Be Queen"
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Operation Double 007 (1993)
Joel: "During the making of 'The Man Who Would Be King'"
Stargate (1994)
Stargate SG-1: Need (1998)
Jack uses the phrase after Daniel agrees to marry the Princess.
The Mummy (1999)
Exact same brand and vintage of liquor
Farscape: Jeremiah Crichton (1999)
John says, "The Slug Who Would Be King."
Three Kings (1999)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Line from "Man Who Would Be King" mirrored almost exactly
World of Pub: Caine (2001)
"Not before the others. Not after the others. With the bloody others!"
Coyote Beach (2003)
The man quotes from the movie.
Color Me Kubrick (2005)
newspaper article called "The Man Who Would be Kubrick"
INRI (2009)
pretending to be a God in order to scam money

Featured in 

Sneak Previews: The Best of 1976 (1977)
A clip is shown. #10 on Gene Siskel's top ten list.
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989)
Connery and Caine cigar-lighting scene

Spoofed in 

SCTV: The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes (1977)
Title was basis for parody "The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes".
The Man Who Would Be Shaun (2004)
The title is a reference, plus the impressions are both of the two main cast members of the film.

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