Haberdasher.
Cycle repairer?
Carpet fitter.
Love, Actuary.
No, he’s a transpondster.
He did statistical analysis and data reconfiguration.
Motel Night Auditor.
Aside from Anthony Perkins being the only employee of the Bates Motel.
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There’s been a few movies/ TV shows about Cassanova. He was a librarian.
Has there ever been a prison movie where the guard is the main character. In every one I can think of, the main character was a prisoner, with the guards being secondary characters.
Veterinarian?
Wait, what? You’ve got Jeff Bridges in Tucker: The Man And His Dream, Wentworth Miller in Prison Break, Ben Affleck in Paycheck, Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man, and I’m pretty sure Richard Dean Anderson qualifies in MacGyver: using his academic background to put out a fire in an oil well and rebuild the equipment easy as conducting environmental-impact studies and changing operations at a nuclear power plant, or whatever.
Tom Hanks was top-billed in The Green Mile.
I never watched Prison Break but didn’t the guard become one of the main characters.
Good point on Tom Hanks, and I’ve never seen Prison Break, but you could be right…
All Creatures Great and Small.
If any show ever features a professional indexer as a main character, I will faint dead away.
I’m sure Mike Rowe has done a few jobs that haven’t been made into main characters.
I don’t know, I think student employees and paraprofessional staff show up pretty often. Didn’t the Ali MacGraw character in Love Story work in the campus library? I’m sure the Chris O’Donnell character in Scent of a Woman did. Justin_Bailey has already mentioned Parker Posey in Party Girl.
I don’t believe it’s the same thing, but I believe that he pioneered a lot of what later became industrial engineering. And this website from the University of Michigan also suggests The Pajama Game, Modern Times and The Efficiency Expert (aka Spotswood) as also containing industrial engineers.
Mechanical engineers have also been portrayed in the movies, such as in the recent (but not very good) film The Dilemma, starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James. They’re mechanical engineers who are attempting to build an electric-powered muscle car with the throaty sound of a traditional IC engine.
Uma Thurman, The Truth about Cats and Dogs
No one’s mentioned this yet, so I’m going to feed this one to myself. How about a machinist?