Actuaries in Film

• Double Indemnity (1944) a Billy Wilder film , with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, was possibly the first to feature an actuary. The plot revolves around a murder that seeks to gain advantage from a rather peculiar insurance policy. An insurance investigator (Edward G. Robinson) knows the actuarial statistics and becomes suspicious.
• Are You With It? (1948) is musical comedy featuring Donald O'Connor as an actuary who is forced to join a carnival after misplacing a decimal point on a statistical table
• Sweet Charity (1968) is a film that documents the romantic life of an actuary, played by John McMartin with Shirley MacLaine as his love interest.
• The Billion Dollar Bubble (1976) starring James Woods.
• Class Action (1991) featured Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as father and daughter lawyers on opposite sides of a massive class action law suit. Actuarial analysis plays a key role in the outcome.

• Escape Clause (1996) - Andrew McCarthy plays Richard Ramsay in an actuarial thriller. To quote TVguide.com "The makers of this direct-to-video release thought the world was ready for a thriller about an insurance actuary. They thought wrong."
• About Schmidt (2002) - Warren Schmidt is portrayed by Jack Nicholson and is from the movie About Schmidt. The movie mostly covers Schmidt's retirement from an insurance company. Schmidt is portrayed as antisocial and unfriendly. He does not want to retire and spends his free time still working on actuarial calculations.
• Along Came Polly (2004)- Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) is an actuary portrayed as nervous and extremely risk-averse; he even uses actuarial models to calculate the probability of relationships with women going well.

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Films referring to Actuaries

• The Apartment (1960), starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine:“In 1957 we had an employee here, name of Fowler.He was very popular too. Turned out he was running a bookie joint in the actuarial department. Tying up our switchboard using our IBM machines to figure the odds. So the day before the Kentucky Derby, I called in the vice squad and we raided the 13th floor.”
• Tron (1982), which featured an actuarial program as one of the supporting cast of characters - doomed to a fairly early demise in the film
• Groundhog Day (1993). The anti-hero Phil Connors (Bill Murray) repeatedly crosses the path of an annoying insurance salesman, Ned “Needlenose” Ryerson. At one point, Ned exclaims, “I got friends who live by the actuarial tables!”

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Actuaries in TV

• The Collector (2004) had an episode titled "The Actuary"
• Profiler (1996-1999) had an episode about a serial killer actuary (citation required)

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Actuaries in Literature

• Un Certain Monsieur Blot by Pierre Daninos. Mr Blot is an actuary who wins a competition as the most average man in France. The book includes the acerbic observation that “there were two kinds of actuaries – those who were still doing actuarial work and those who had found something better to do”
• The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic are part of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fantasy series and feature Twoflower the ‘actuary and world’s first tourist’.
• The comic series Batman featured a villian named the Actuary: (Detective Comics #683-4 (March-April 1995)): A mathematical genius who applies formulas to aid the Penguin in committing crimes

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See Also

• Actuary

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References

Actuary Australia ("Two Ducks" column - September 2003, November 2003 April 2004, May 2004 editions)

http://www.actuaries.asn.au/PublicationAndResearch/Library/AA?docType=Publication_AA&docTypeID=226&year=Select%20Year