Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (2024)

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Katya Wachtel

2010-09-09T15:42:00Z

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (1)

Over the years there's been a fair share of Wall Street movies, but not all of them showcase strapping i-bankers in tailored pinstripe suits.

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Barbarians At The Gates - the film based on equity moguls at KKR, for example... Not too many hot bankers in that one.

But there's a ton of films that do comprise a Wall Street stud (or two), so we compiled a list of the bankers, brokers, traders, investment kingpins and imaginary moguls who have blessed the silver screen over the years.

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (2)

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Jimmy Stewart as Banker George Bailey (1946)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (3)

"Where's that money, you silly stupid old fool? Where's that money?"

-- George Bailey

Film: It's A Wonderful Life

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William Holden as industrial baron David Larrabee (1954)

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"Funniest thing. Linus Larrabee, the man who doesn't burn, doesn't scorch, doesn't melt... suddenly throws a twenty million dollar deal out the window."

-- David Larrabee

Film: Sabrina

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Michael Douglas as trader Gordon Gekko (1987)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (5)

"The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good."

- Gordon Gekko

Film: Wall Street

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Harrison Ford as investment broker Jack Trainer (1988)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (6)

"All mergers and acquistions. No lust and tequila."

-- Jack Trainer

Film: Working Girl

Richard Gere as buyout titan Edward Lewis (1990)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (7)

"You and I are such similar creatures Vivian. We both screw people for money."

- Edward Lewis

Film: Pretty Woman

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Tom Hanks as bond trader Sherman McCoy (1990)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (8)

"On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? - three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? - had become precisely that … Masters of the Universe."

- Narrator in Bonfire of the Vanities, talking about Sherman McCoy

Film: Bonfire of the Vanities

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Alec Baldwin as hot-shot sales strategist Blake (1992)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (9)

"Always... Be... Closing."

-- Blake

Film: Glengarry Glen Ross

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Michael Douglas as banker Nicholas Van Orton (1997)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (10)

"And you really believe that just because you publish children's books, people are going to care about my reputation? You can have pictures of me wearing nipple rings, butt-f*cking Captain Kangaroo. The only thing they care about is the stock and whether that stock is up or down!"

-- Nicholas Van Orton

Film: The Game

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Christian Bale as investment banker Patrick Bateman (2000)

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"Paul Allen has mistaken me for this dickhe*d Marcus Halberstram. It seems logical because Marcus also works at P&P and in fact does the same exact thing I do and he also has a penchant for Valentino suits and Oliver Peoples glasses. Marcus and I even go to the same barber, although I have a slightly better haircut."

- Patrick Bateman

Film: American Psycho

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Giovanni Ribisi as broker Seth Davis (2000)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (12)

"So I went the white boy way of slinging crack-rock: I became a stock broker."

Vin Diesel as trader Chris Varick (2000)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (13)

"Do you want that confirmation sent to your office, or your mansion?"

- Chris Varick

Film: Boiler Room

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Charlie Sheen as stockbroker Bud Fox (1987)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (14)

"Having sex with her was like reading the Wall St Journal."

-- Bud Fox

Film: Wall Street

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Eddie Murphy as trader Billy Ray Valentine (1983)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (15)

"Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won."

- Billy Ray Valentine

Film: Trading Places

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Hugh Grant as real estate investment mogul George Wade (2002)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (16)

"I own the hotel, and I live there. My life is very much like Monopoly."

-- George Wade

Film: Two Weeks Notice

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Will Smith as stockbroker Christopher Gardner (2006)

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"He must have had on some really nice pants."

-- Christopher Gardner

Film: The Pursuit Of Happyness

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Nicholas Cage as investment banker Jack Campbell (2000)

Forget Shia LaBeouf, These Are Hollywood's Hottest Bankers (18)

"Then I'm going to spend four hours skiing alone. Completely and utterly alone. I'm going to do that because that is my life, that's what's real... and there's nothing I can do to change that."

- Jack Campbell

Film: Family Man

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