Architects in Film

Sooner or later someone was going to come up with this list, especially since Architects have been popularized in the mainstream through Hollywood etc. Celebrities such as Hayden Christensen and Brad Pitt have expressed their interest in architecture. Even President Obama once aspired to be an architect. On film, the architect as character dates well back to The Fountainhead and has picked up in frequency on the big screen in recent years. I have seen a few such attempts at listing architects on screen but none as comprehensive and that via Mirage Studio 7 & Arch Daily) However, their list is missing a few films which Couper//Coller has revised below:

Gary Cooper in “Fountainhead” (1949):

Henry Fonda in “12 Angry Men” (1957):

Kirk Douglas as Larry Coe - “Strangers When We Meet” (1960):

Albert Finney as Mark Wallace - “Two For The Road” (1967):

Paul Newman in “The Towering Inferno” (1974):

Charles Bronson in “Death Wish” (1974):

Brian Dennehy as Stourley Kracklite - The Belly of an Architect” (1987):

Tom Selleck in “Three Men and a Baby” (1987):

Wesley Snipes in “Jungle Fever” (1991):

Steve Martin in “House Sitter” (1992):

Woody Harrelson in “Indecent Proposal” (1993):

Tom Hanks in “Sleepless in Seattle” (1993):

Jeff Bridges as Max Klein - “Fearless” (1993):

Richard Gere as Vincent Eastman - “Intersection” (1994):

Matthew Broderick in “The Cable Guy” (1996):

Michelle Pfeiffer in “One Fine Day” (1996):

Ewan McGragor as Meneer Chrome in "The Serpent's Kiss" (1997):

Jason Alexander as George Costanza (wannabe architect) in "Seinfeld" (1989-1998):

Matthew Perry and Oliver Platt in "Three to Tango" (1999):

Frank Gehry (voice) in “The Simpsons” (2005):

Kevin Kline as George Monroe - “Life As A House” (2001):

Helmut Bakaitis as The Architect - “The Matrix Reloaded” (2003):

Liam Neeson in “Love Actually” (2003):

Ashton Kutcher (Student) in “Butterfly Effect” (2004):

Michael Keaton in “White Noise” (2005):

Jude Law (Landscape Architect) in “Breaking and Entering” (2006):

Adam Sandler in “Click” (2006):

Luke Wilson in “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (2006):

Matt Dillon in “You, Me and Dupree” (2006) and “There’s Something About Mary” (1998):

Zach Braff in “The Last Kiss” (2006):

Virginia Madsen in “Firewall” (2006):

Keanu Reeves in “The Lake House” (2006):

Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “500 Days of Summer” (2009):