| Film | Fictional professor | Portrayer | Study |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Absent-Minded Professor (Flubber) | Professor Philip/Ned Brainard | Fred MacMurray/Robin Williams | physical chemistry |
| Charly | Professor Richard Nemur | Leon Janney | psychology |
| Clue | Professor Plum | Christopher Lloyd | psychiatry |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | Professor Jacob Barnhardt | Sam Jaffe | Biological Altruism |
| Diamonds Are Forever | Professor Metz | Joseph Furst | unknown |
| The Fearless Vampire Killers | Professor Abronsius | Jack MacGowran | Vampirology |
| The Great Mouse Detective | Professor Padraic Ratigan | Vincent Price (voice) | unknown |
| Harry Potter Series | Professor Albus Dumbledore Professor Filius Flitwick Professor Remus Lupin Professor Minerva McGonagall Professor Severus Snape Professor Horace E.F. Slughorn Professor Pomona Sprout Professor Sybill Trelawney |
Richard Harris / Michael Gambon Warwick Davis David Thewlis Maggie Smith Alan Rickman Jim Broadbent Miriam Margolyes Emma Thompson |
Transfiguration (later Headmaster) Charms Dark Arts Defense Transfiguration Potions Potions Herbology Divination |
| Indiana Jones Series | Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. Professor Henry Jones, Sr. |
Harrison Ford Sean Connery |
Archaeology Medieval literature |
| The Ladykillers (2004 film) | Professor Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr | Tom Hanks | classical philology and literature |
| Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Professor Waldman | John Cleese | medicine |
| My Fair Lady | Professor Henry Higgins | Rex Harrison | phonetics |
| The Nutty Professor (1996 film) | Professor Sherman Klump | Eddie Murphy | biology |
| The Paper Chase | Professor Charles Kingsfield | John Houseman | law |
| Spider-Man 2 | Dr. Curtis Connors | Dylan Baker | physics |
| Tarzan (1999 film) | Professor Archimedes Q. Porter | Nigel Hawthorne | naturalist |
| The Wizard of Oz | Professor Marvel | Frank Morgan | none |
| X-Men | Professor Charles Xavier | Patrick Stewart | many |
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half- piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“Lay not that flattering unction to your soul,
That not your trespass but my madness speaks;
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
Infects unseen.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
—Werner Herzog (b. 1942)