Mr. Turkentine is Charlie Bucket's school teacher and appears in the first movie in 1971. He has a sarcastic sense of humour which he uses to express knowledge. He asks Charlie to assist him in making a medicine using several scientific elements for the class but the project is interrupted due to the frantic golden ticket search for Willy Wonka. Mr. Turkentine when hearing the news about the golden tickets during the project dismisses the class and runs out after the created medicine explodes. Later when it is revealed that all the tickets have supposedly been found ending with a Paraguayan millionaire he decides to use Wonka bars as an example to teach his class about percentages. Charlie Bucket only opened 2 Wonka bars during the search and so to help teach his class he decides to pretend Charlie opened 200. Mr. Turkentine is played by British actor David Battley.
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