One of the reasons that we’re so ready as a society to look to online insurance quotes for our insurance needs rather than an agent is that these folks are boring. The typical insurance agent is a guy in his 40s who’s able to put just about anyone asleep as he drones on and on about the benefits of whole life versus term life insurance.
On the big screen, however, things can be very different. Movies have a way of taking these kinds of stereotypes and turning them on their heads. In fact, if real-life insurance agents were more like some of the ones below, we’re pretty sure that online insurance quotes would be on the decline.
Here are the top insurance agents of the movies:
- Albert Tuttle in One Body Too Many (1944). In this film, Insurance agent Albert Tuttle shows up at a creepy house to investigate claims that it’s haunted. The movie features Bela Lugosi, and is a comedy-horror.
- Wendell Corey in Alias Jesse James (1959). Bob Hope plays insurance man Corey, who has been mistaken for the outlaw Jesse James. James hopes to kill Corey, in order to collect on a large life insurance policy.
- Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (1944). Neff, who is played by Fred MacMurray, helps Barbara Stanwyck murder her husband and try to collect on a life insurance polcy. This is a classic example of film noir, and shows the true depravity and greed that can lay in the heart of an insurance salesman.
- Reuben Feffer in Along Came Polly (2004). Ben Stiller plays the insurance adjuster Feffer, who finds himself falling in love with his old classmate Polly (Jennifer Aniston) – on his honeymoon.
- Bob Parr in The Incredibles (2004). Voiced by Craig T. Nelson, this film explores what life is like for a former superhero who finds life after heroism as an insurance agent.
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