Accountants in
Movies & TV
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- In The Other Guys¸ Will Farrell plays forensic accountant
turned reluctant detective alongside Boston’s own, Mark Wahlberg.
- Handsome Danny Glover is
accountant Henry Sherman, Angelica Huston's dependable second husband in
The Royal Tenenbaums.
- A stylish white rabbit lends
her skills as a "crack accountant" to Mr. Fox's rescue mission
in Wes Anderson's stop-motion animation The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
- In The Shawshank
Redemption Tim Robbins plays Andy Dufresne,
a banker accused of murdering his wife and her lover who becomes the
prison's unofficial accountant and bookkeeper.
- In the Showtime TV show Weeds,
Doug Wilson is the suburban town's crooked,
stoner accountant who helps Nancy Botwin
with the financial side of her pot growing and dealing business.
- French superstar Daniel Autueil in The Closet is an accountant who
pretends to be gay to keep his job.
- Charles Grodin
as the president's accountant in Dave solves the budget deficit
in one overnight session, leaving the White House at dawn in his prudent
small car.
- Milking his accounting
talents, Charles Grodin is an accountant who
steals from the rich and gives to the poor in Midnight Run.
Robert De Niro tracks him down when Grodin jumps bail.
- Gregory Peck thinks he is a
cost accountant - but he is really a brainwashed spy in Mirage.
- Ben Kingsley's bespectacled
accountant helps save lives in Schindler's List.
- Mary Tyler Moore gets asked
on a date by her IRS auditor.
- Joan Crawford's accountant,
wearing a green eye shade and sleeve garters, explains to her that her
money is all gone in Mildred Pierce.
- In Fargo, William H Macy's
oppressive and wealthy father-in-law does nothing without the consent of
his heavyset and closed-minded accountant.
- In The Producers, Zero
Mostel ropes accountant Gene Wilder into
collaborating with him on a scheme to rip off old ladies. It is the first
time in his life that Gene is happy.
- In Ghostbusters, Rick Moranis is an accountant who, although possessed by
evil spirits, asks who does monstrous Sigourney Weaver's tax return.
- In Basquiat,
the central character's dad is an accountant, played by Leonard Jackson.
- Woody Allen's accountant
tells him he isn't "liquid enough" in Manhattan.
- Bill Pullman is a strange
investigator in Zero Effect who poses as an accountant. He tells
a client to save her "WW2 Form'.
- In Erotica, the lead
character is a bearded and gentlemanly accountant who gets increasingly
hung up on a snacky lap dancer whom he is
forbidden to touch.
- Comedian and actor Eddie
Izzard studied to be an accountant. He found it very boring and dropped
out. Yet he refers to this experience in interviews as revealing his
intelligence relative to other comedians.
- In Shedevil,
Ed Begley Jr plays a sleazeball
accountant upon whom Rosanne Barr wreaks a hideous revenge.
- Road to Perdition boasts a fey, crafty and
arrogant mob accountant who gets drilled through a wall. Is this Stanley
Tucci?
- In Memento, Stephen Tobolowsky plays Sammy Jankis,
the accountant who lost his memory, just like Guy Pearce's Leonard. Or
is Guy remembering something that never happened?
- Charles Martin Smith plays
accountant Oscar Wallace in The Untouchables. This brave soul
conceives the idea of nabbing Al Capone for tax evasion.
- Kevin James plays tax
accountant Albert Brennaman, who woos and wins
Amber Valletta in Hitch, just by being his booty-shaking,
inhaler-snorting, passionate self.
- Ed O'Brien is an accountant
who frantically seeks the person who has poisoned him in noir classic D.O.A.
- In Monty Python's Meaning
of Life Chartered Accountants turn pirate and plunder the business
world from the decks of their absurdly-mobile office building.
- In Stranger than Fiction,
Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, an IRS agent whose life turns out to be
the subject of a novel Emma Thompson is writing. With his survival
dependent upon the requirements of the author's plot, Harold follows
what the moviemakers patronizingly assume is his dream, and abandons
what clearly is a soul-nourishing love of numbers to croon adenoidally to the plunkings
of Maggie Gyllenhaal's lame guitar.
- In the BBC Comedy sitcom, The
Vicar of Dibley, the zaftig Geraldine
finds love at last when she marries a totally smokin'
accountant!
- In Season 18, Episode 15 of
The Simpsons, Homer is assigned a court appointed accountant to sort out
his finances.
Accountant: You throw over one thousand dollars a month into
local wishing wells.
Homer: Yeah, you idiot, cause I'm wishing for more money!
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