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Fictional actuaries and the appearance of actuaries in works of fiction have been the subject of a number of articles in actuarial journals. ==Film== * ''About Schmidt'' (2002) - Warren Schmidt is portrayed by Jack Nicholson; the movie mostly covers Schmidt's retirement from an insurance company, and his adventures after retirement * ''Along Came Polly'' (2004) - Reuben Feffer (played by Ben Stiller) is a risk assessment expert, and though not explicitly stated, performs the job of an underwriter * ''Are You With It?'' (1948) - a 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 * ''The Billion Dollar Bubble'' (1976) - the Equity Funding scandal retold in the form of a movie, starring James Woods * ''Boyhood'' (2014) - Mason Evans, Sr. (played by Ethan Hawke) mentions at a baseball game that he recently passed his second actuarial exam, and later discusses his job at an insurance firm * ''Class Action'' (1991) - featured Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as father and daughter lawyers on opposite sides of a massive class action lawsuit; actuarial analysis plays a key role in the outcome * ''Double Indemnity'' (1944) - a Billy Wilder film, with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck; possibly the first to feature an actuary; plot revolves around a murder that seeks to gain advantage from a particular aspect of an insurance policy; an insurance investigator (played by Edward G. Robinson) knows the actuarial statistics and becomes suspicious * ''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."〔()〕 * ''Fight Club'' (1999) - Edward Norton plays the protagonist, who briefly describes that his job entails the assessment of risk associated with car accidents for an insurance company; though not explicitly stated, he performs the job of an underwriter who uses actuarially derived premiums to benchmark quotes * ''Saw VI'' (2009) - William Easton is a health insurance executive who describes actuarial mathematics in a conversation with John Kramer * ''Stranger than Fiction'' (2006) - Harold Crick (played by Will Ferrell), a socially isolated IRS auditor, mentions that he was once engaged to an auditor who left him for an actuary * ''Sweet Charity'' (1969) - documents the romantic life of an actuary, played by John McMartin with Shirley MacLaine as his love interest * ''Thirteen Conversations About One Thing'' (2001) - starring Matthew McConaughey; the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability * ''Tron'' - the character Ram (played by Dan Shor) is an actuarial program 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fictional actuaries」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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