Accountants in Movies & TV
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- Handsome Danny Glover is accountant Henry Sherman, Angelica Huston's
dependable second husband in The Royal Tenenbaums.
- 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.
- In Jurassic Park, a weasel accountant spurns Jeff Goldblum's advice
and get devoured by a dinosaur.
- 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? A shout out to Stephen, who
is a very good actor!
- 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.
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