6 Popular Janitors in Film and TV

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6 Popular
Janitors
In Film and TV
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Many of Americas leading men have played
characters with jobs like the rest of us. Check
out these 6 ironic janitors in film and TV.
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Will Hunting In Good Will Hunting In this
breakout role, Matt Damon is a janitor by day at
the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and math genius by night, solving
equations on blackboards thought to be
unsolvable.
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Janitor In TV show Scrubs Not only was actor
Neil Flynns character not given a proper name,
but he was constantly referred to as just
Janitor as if that was his name. Written as a
single episode character, his rivalry with Dr.
Jon Dorian at Sacred Heart Hospital proved to be
so popular his character was added as a show
regular.
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Vincent Freeman In Gattaca In this futuristic
film about eugenics and reproductive
technologies, Ethan Hawke plays an office janitor
at Gattaca Aerospace Corporation who gets
involved in a scheme of false identity with Jude
Laws character, Jerome Morrow.
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Carl Reed In The Breakfast Club Famously saying
to the five students in Saturday morning
detention, I am the eyes and ears of this
institution, my friends, John Kapeloss ironic
character of the wise and witty janitor roaming
the halls in this 1980s cult classic was
originally to be played by Rick Moranis of
Ghostbusters and Little Shop of Horrors fame.
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God In Bruce Almighty Actor Morgan
Freeman as God disguised as an office janitor
gave a whole new meaning to the saying
cleanliness is next to godliness. In this Jim
Carrey blockbuster, God offers the character of
Bruce Nolan, a TV reporter, the opportunity to be
God for one week, which leaves Freeman with a lot
of cleaning up to do.
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Joe Dirt In Joe Dirt David Spades
mullet-wearing, down-on-his-luck janitor
character is catapulted into fame when he has the
chance to tell his life story on the radio, which
includes the tale of how he was left behind at
the Grand Canyon as a child and doesnt know is
real last name.
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Image Attributions
Slide 2 "Matt Damon, Steven Soderbergh 66ème
Festival de Venise (Mostra)" by nicolas genin
from Paris, France - 66ème Festival de Venise
(Mostra). Licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- http//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File3AMatt_Da
mon2C_Steven_Soderbergh_66C3A8me_Festival_de_Ve
nise_(Mostra).jpg Ethan Hawke 2009 Venice
Film Festival by nicolas genin CC-BY-SA-2.0
(http//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0),
via Wikimedia Commons http//commons.wikimedia.org
/wiki/File3AEthan_Hawke_-_2009_Venice_Film_Festiv
al.jpg Morgan Freeman, 2006 by David Sifry
(David Sifry's flickr account) CC-BY-2.0
(http//creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),
via Wikimedia Commons http//commons.wikimedia.org
/wiki/File3AMorgan_Freeman2C_2006.jpg Slide
3 Old MIT Classroom photo by Ryan Tyler
Smith https//flic.kr/p/nm2s5h "Matt Damon,
Steven Soderbergh 66ème Festival de Venise
(Mostra)" by nicolas genin from Paris, France -
66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra). Licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 via
Wikimedia Commons - http//commons.wikimedia.org/w
iki/File3AMatt_Damon2C_Steven_Soderbergh_66C3A
8me_Festival_de_Venise_(Mostra).jpg Slide
5 Ethan Hawke 2009 Venice Film Festival by
nicolas genin CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http//creativecommon
s.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0), via Wikimedia
Commons http//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File3AE
than_Hawke_-_2009_Venice_Film_Festival.jpg Slide
7 Morgan Freeman, 2006 by David Sifry (David
Sifry's flickr account) CC-BY-2.0
(http//creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),
via Wikimedia Commons http//commons.wikimedia.org
/wiki/File3AMorgan_Freeman2C_2006.jpg
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Summary
Many of Americas leading men have played
characters with jobs just like the rest of us.
Take a look at these six ironic, smart-witted
janitors in film and TV.