Quality Assurance Representative,
Creed from The Office, but I suppose he’s a supporting character.
How about a printer?
What kind of printer or doesn’t it make a difference?
In Catch Me If You Can, he printed money…does that count?
Not quite the same thing, but I remember a made-for-TV movie about a young woman who was studying to become a electrolysis technician. Looking over IMDb, I want to say it was Breathing Lessons.
Most of the guys in The Deer Hunter were foundry workers.
The OP specified professions by the lead character. On Califonication the lead is Hank, no?
As I recall, in that show, Bob was a psychologist. He had a Ph.D. in psychology (which allowed him to counsel patients), but not the MD that would let him prescribe medications, like Frasier and Niles Crane; both of whom were psychiatrists. It is my understanding that a psychiatrist is an MD who specializes in mental health; while a psychologist is not an MD, but one who can counsel people as to mental health, without being able to write prescriptions.
Awesome thread! I came in to discuss Double Indemnity, but hajario beat me to it, as well. And as was pointed out, it wasn’t really about an actuary.
Still, really good question.
Wasn’t Chandler Bing an actuary? Before he went into advertising, I mean.
J. Jonah Jameson owns his own printing presses, so he’s a printer as well as a publisher. He’s not the lead character in Spider-Man, though… How about Charles Foster Kane?
Homer Simpson/ Mr Plow
Homer Simpson at some point…?
Definitely not a lead character, but Suzanne Whang did a wonderful job playing the bikini waxer at the hotel on the Las Vegas television series.
In addition to Dr. Frasier Crane, Billy Crystal’s character in Analyze This and Analyze That is a psychiatrist.
I think Engineers of all sorts are underrepresented - Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil etc.
Paul Sand played a symphonic musician in Friends and Lovers; I forget which specific instrument, though.
Hank Morgan, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
The 1950 film Cheaper by the Dozen was about the industrial engineer Frank Gilbreth and his family, although obviously it focused more on family life than on his professional life.
How about reckless maverick cop with drinking/marital problems? Can’t be too many of those…
He was a self-described “efficiency expert,” although that might be the same thing.
Statistical analysis and data reconfiguration.