I'd like to ask other Stage 32 members; "Who is the most interesting Architect character you've seen on screen?" (Maybe none come to mind. Architects aren't nearly as evident in the movies and on TV as doctors, lawyers, detectives, and crooks are. I hope to change that! Please share any memorable Architects you can think of. Thanks!)
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Jacqueline and Peter, thanks. Yes, Mr. Martin has played an Architect twice. Hanks owned a houseboat in his role. Have you read or seen The Fountainhead (from the 50's)? Now there was a compelling character!
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We cannot forget Mike Brady of the award winning, long running series, "The Brady Bunch". He was an architect! The character designed the house they all lived in!
Wilbur Post.
Flipper (Wesley Snipes) in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991)
Mr. Ed was a year or two before my time, Mike, but Wilbur is occasionally mentioned as a favorite TV Architect. I had forgotten about Jungle Fever. Thanks, Ted!
I think we are over do for another character with this profession. It would be great to see it. I know it would be expensive, but CGI can do wonderful things.
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I think we are over do for another character with this profession. It would be great to see it. I know it would be expensive, but CGI can do wonderful things.
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Ellen Page, Inception
well, this is a bit lopsided but actually in Seinfeld, "George Costanza" always wanted to be an architect and took on that profession when he had the chance to date.............
I hate to mention it, but yeah, the architect character in The Fountainhead played by Gary Cooper was pretty damn compelling. I suppose even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while and that was Ayn Rand's nut. Well, she was her own nut but that's a whole nother story. Nobody's done a biographical motion picture about Frank Lloyd Wright...complex, complicated guy. Paul Williams, the Black architect, not the White short-statured composer, would also be an interesting story to tell on film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Williams_(architect)
Charles Bronson played an architect in "Death Wish"...the liberal modernist, builder of cities, turned into a nasty and violent reactionary by the urban violence of the 1970s. In my opinion.
@ Michelle Klein-Hass, I think the concept of the Fountainhead character was compelling, but Gary Cooper didn't do a good enough job.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Tom Hansen, an aspiring architect in (500) Days of Summer and Joshua Radnor plays Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother as an architect as well.
Great calls, everyone. Johanna; I’ve been told I look like George Costanza. Life imitates sitcom. Michelle & Sam; Howard Roark (Fountainhead) is like Frank Lloyd Wright in many ways. Wright WAS compelling. Brianna; Joseph Gordon-Levitt is great. I’ll have to check out 500 days! And Ted Mosby is funny playing a goofy young Architect.
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Guy Hanes (Farley Granger) - Strangers On A Train. - Hitchcock movie, but one must read the book to really feel the full impact of Hanes' dilemma regarding Bruno's demands. The movie does not go into the details of architecture as much as Pat Highsmith's book does.
Don't forget about Ben from Steven King's It. John Ritter played Ben as an adult and he was an architect :)
Thanks to you all for sharing your Architect character ideas. I've started a public list of Favorite Architectural Stories over at list.ly if you're interested. Thank you. http://list.ly/list/1KY-favorite-architecture-stories