Cinematic Librarians

Here are some of my favourite classic, popular and cult films that feature librarians. Although some library characters are stereotypical, I have tried to find the most unconventional or positive portrayals of librarians/libraries in film:

1. CITIZEN KANE (1941). Features an infamous confrontation with a sterotypical librarian, a mean-spirited, spiteful archivist played by Georgia Backus. So bad, it is funny and has to be seen to be believed. But has possibly haunted our profession's image since.
2. THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER (1989). This arthouse favourite features 'the lover' as librarian.
3. GHOSTBUSTERS(1984), ghostly librarians stack shelves in the haunted New York Public Library.
4. THE WICKER MAN (1973), a classic film featuring arguably the sexiest librarian of all time embodied in the winsome Ingrid Pitt.
5. FOUL PLAY (1978), a classic comedy with Goldie Hawn playing a ditsy San Francisco librarian, seduced by Chevy Chase.
6. NO MAN OF HER OWN(1932), Carole Lombard plays the seductive local librarian who wins Clark Gables heart. A favourite of my Scottish grandmother, who was also a librarian.
7. THE MUMMY(1999) features a reference librarian who assists the scientists in research.
8. AGENT TROUBLE (1987). Catherine Deneuve is a chic librarian, using her research skills to solve a complicated crime.
9. ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (1979). A classic image of tough guy Clint Eastwood as a librarian, working in the prison library and wheeling the prison library cart.
10. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976). A reference librarian assists reporters working on the Watergate story.
11. BLACK MASK (1996). Jet Li plays a mild-mannered librarian by day, who transforms into the superhero, Black Mask, by night.
12. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989). Indiana Jones uses a magnificent library in Venice to find the key to the location of the lost chalice.
13. THE MATRIX (1999). The character of Tank, although never named as a 'librarian' is arguably the geek pin-up, most idealised digital librarian icon in contemporary cinema (at least amongst my friends). Sits night and day in front of a huge bank of interconnected computer monitors researching multiple documents/images/files used to save the world.