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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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