Via mirage.studio.7 we ran into this list of fictional architects in movies. There are some classic ones, like Henry Fonda. Some new ones like Adam Sandler. And there’s even an actual architect who made it to The Simpsons.
Which one do you like the most? The least? Is there anyone missing in this list? Some actor/actress you would really like as an architect in a movie? Tell us what you think. Full list after the break.
Update: Images and sources were taken from mirage.studio.7. They did this article with different sources like DanStewart, Ajolote Boletin, Archinect, ArchitExploitation, and more.
Paul Newman in “The Towering Inferno”:
Keanu Reeves in “The Lake”:
Steve Martin in “HouseSitter”:
Woody Harrelson in “Indecent Proposal”:
Michael Keaton in “White Noise”:
Frank Gehry (voice) in “The Simpsons”:
Gary Cooper in “Fountainhead”:
Jude Law (Landscape Architect” in “Breaking and Entering”:
Adam Sandler in “Click”:
Liam Neeson in “Love Actually”:
Wesley Snipes in “Jungle Fever”:
Luke Wilson in “My Super Ex-Girlfriend”:
Ashton Kutcher (Student) in “Butterfly Effect”:
Matt Dillon in “You, Me and Dupree” and “There’s Something About Mary”:
Tom Hanks in “Sleepless in Seattle”:
Charles Bronson in “Death Wish”:
Michelle Pfeiffer in “One Fine Day”:
Tom Selleck in “Three Men and a Baby”:
Henry Fonda in “12 Angry Men”:
Zach Braff in “The Last Kiss”:
Virginia Madsen in “Firewall”:
Matthew Broderick in “The Cable Guy”:
哇，原来这么多电影里都有建筑师的身影，以前只记得神奇遥控器里的男主角是建筑师。Indecent Proposal里的建筑师很有感觉！
didn’t richard gere play an architect, as well?
yes – in the movie “intersection” c/w Sharon Stone
Based on the images, Virginia Madsen looks most realistic :)
No ways, most realistic gotta be my boy Snipes.
damn right lol
haha, yep, thats pretty much what we architects get upto in the office.
Come on! No architect would mess up his/her drawings that way…that’s what the conference table is for…I have an eyewitness story about that one!
and you missed Matthew Perry and Oliver Platt on ‘Three to tango’
the Keanu Reeves movie is called “The Lake HOUSE.” not “The Lake”
the bloke in Gremlins was a Landscape Architect
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “500 Days of Summer.”
Yes! Awesome movie!
you missed David Murphy (Woody Harrelson) in the film “Indecent Proposal”
oops you didn’t! just saw it
I propose fake architect George Costanza (in multiple Seinfeld episodes) for honorable mention on this list!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXMDRbOBMno
Also, Graham Chapman and John Cleese:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2PyeXRwhCE&feature=fvw
:)
the guy in the show: “How I met your mother” (I know it’s a show and not a movie, but still think it counts)
Are not there several TV shows with architects? It would be interesting to get a list of them as well. My doctor told me that the architecture profession is boring and that is why you never see them on TV shows.
Another interesting list would be foreign films with architects.
I think the father from the Brady Bunch was an architect.
Wilbur Post, the owner of Mr. Ed the talking horse was an architect
Hey, also Elyse Keaton, the mother from “Family Ties”
Mike Brady, sigh…huge crush, such a nice guy. Good architect too, forever at that drafting table. Always bothered, me even at age seven, that the exterior shot shows the second story on the left side of the lot, but the interior set has stairs that lead you up to the right side. the garage structure was really good, looked like a Schindler or Nuetra. Hey maybe!
my friend says there’s How I Met your Mother series
the butterfly effect, ashton kutcher wasn t an architect, but a psychologist. his best friend was an architect in one of the scenarios though.
Matt Dillon in “There’s Something About Mary” was not an architect. His character was a private investigator.
He actually was a private investigator but lies about being an architect to look good in front of Mary, also he lies about being twice on a year on Santiago jaja.
True, true!
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Matthew Langford Perry Three to Tango (1999)
what about Scofield (Prison Break) ?:D
Engineer
Jeff Bridges as Max Klein – “Fearless” (1993)
Kevin Klien as George Monroe – “Life As A House” (2001)
Albert Finney as Mark Wallace – “Two For The Road” (1967)
Kirk Douglas as Larry Coe – “Strangers When We Meet” (1960)
Richard Gere as Vincent Eastman – “Intersection” (1994)
Helmut Bakaitis as The Architect – “The Matrix Reloaded” (2003) – I know it doesn’t fit the ‘celluloid architect’ type but still worth a mention.
Simpsons is the best… the way Gehry designs, and the way they built the building straight then bend it is really funny!!
The wrecking ball bends!!!
I think I’ve got a few more candidates: Wasn’t Mr. Brady, from the Brady Bunch, also an architect? Also, the main character in The Phantom of the Opera was an architect too. There was a movie I saw hen I was a kid in which Donald Sutherland played an architect restoring buildings in Venice, but I can’t recall the name of the movie. The protagonist from It’s a Wondeful Life was also an architect. And finally, my favorite fictional character [on TV] was George Constnaza’s own fictional alter-ego, which he every once in a while claimed to be… My two cents.
What about Kevin Kline as “George Monroe” in “Live as a house”? Ore is he just building models?
Really nice pictures of Rome has “The Belly of an Architect” (1987) with Brian Dennehy.
I prefere the german film “Vineta” (2008) with Peter Lohmeyer as “Sebastian Färber” who nearly dies as a workaholic with the big chance to build the perfect city of the future in a secret project.
Bob Rebadow (Donald Groves) > OZ inmate > an architect :) who stabbed his client to death with an umbrella, as he disliked bob’s project!
http://www.hbo.com/oz/cast/character_rebadow.shtml
Good call!
Presenting the architects with these giant drawing tables and the chaotic image with bunch of paper is such a cliche … and I’m sick of it!!! As somebody said before me, Virginia Madsen in “Firewall” is the most realistic representation.
French Movie:
YVAN ATTAL in “Les regrets”
http://www.lesregrets-lefilm.fr/
In “Click” Adam Sandlers boss (head architect) is no lesser than “The Hoff”; David Hasselhoff
Brian Dennehy as Stourley Kracklite in “The Belly of an Architect”
French Movie:
Arly Jover in “Les regrets”
http://www.lesregrets-lefilm.fr/
i know its only english movies but even in bollywood:
Dev Anand in 1963 film “Tere Ghar Ke Samne” translation
I remember seeing an old movie on TV when I was a kid with Kirk Douglas playing an architect. I do not remember the name of it, but it was probably made in the 50′s. He either was living in a beach house or designing one. Does anybody know this movie.
One more!
Kevin Kline in “Life as a house”