| 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:
“This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.”
—British Board Of Film Censors. Quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984)
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
—Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.”
—François Truffaut (1932–1984)