Any Professions NOT Used In Films/TV Shows For Lead Characters?

Close, but no cigar. I am still totally conscious. :smiley:

Does Mark Rufalo in “Just Like Heaven” count? I think he was actually listed as a landscape Architect.

James Coburn in **The President’s Analyst **

Barry Bostwick in George Washington. Back then I think it was more of a apprenticeship thing.

Julianne Moore was up for a Best Actress Golden Globe for playing a landscape designer opposite Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right – which, regardless of what you call it, apparently means doing manual labor in the garden and driving out to Home Depot for supplies and otherwise standing ready to handle the whole job if her sole employee ever becomes a problem.

How about message board moderator???

Jimmy Stewart played an aeronautical engineer in No Highway in the Sky. Note that the movie was based on a book that was written by Nevil Shute, who was actually an aeronautical engineer.

That’s not a profession.

How about Beau Bridges playing young Ben Franklin in Ben Franklinin.

Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy…

Personal Care Attendant.

This site (Fictional actuaries) lists films in which actuaries supposedly appear (although not always as lead characters). Some examples are:

Are You With It? (1948)
*Sweet Charity *(1969)
*Billion Dollar Bubble *(1976)
*Escape Clause *(1996)
*About Schmidt *(2002)

There are several more listed at the site. I haven’t seen most of them, so I don’t know whether the characters in question are specifically labelled as “actuaries”, or given a more generic “risk analysis/assessment” descriptions. The characters in *About Schmidt *and *Billion Dollar Bubble *are definitely described as actuaries.

We were treated to a screening of *Billion Dollar Bubble *during an early lecture in my first year of Actuarial studies at uni.

As far as I can tell, there’s no movies about my profession: UX Designer.

Uma Thurman was a model in the movie, Janeane Garafolo was the vet.

Port-O-San

The Social Network.

I did pre-press for 25 years and have yet to see such a film. (I can think of a great plot, about a newspaper pre-press guy who notices under a jeweler’s lupe that an incriminating photo of a reviled murder suspect was doctored, but nobody will believe him!) There was a Twilight Zone episode with Ray Walston as an evil Linotype operator, but that’s a bit of a reach. Photo developers get a little more love–One Hour Photo, Manhunter/Red Dragon (the killer, not the detective), Blow Up.

Being a Notary Public really isn’t a “job” or a profession in any sense, it’s simply a certification that you are authorized to notarize documents. Most legal and real estate broker admin asst and secretaries are often also “notary publics”.

Game warden
Forest ranger
Professional hunter (or poacher)
Fishing guide
Mobile food vendor
Ticket scalper
Panhandler
Slave trader (not someone who happened to own slaves - someone who made a living selling them.)

All of these are off the top of my head. I will think of more…

And all this time I thought Harvey Pekar was a real person!:wink: