Examples in film of absent-minded professors include "Doc" Emmett Brown from Back to the Future, the title character in the film The Absent-Minded Professor and its less successful film remakes all based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor, as well as Professor Farnsworth of Futurama and Professor Frink in The Simpsons.
It was previewed on Disney's films released that spring next to Davy Crocket and The Absent-Minded Professor.
professor | Professor | The Nutty Professor | Professor Moriarty | Professor Green | The Nutty Professor (1996 film) | The Absent-Minded Professor | Quain Professor | Large Professor | Regius Professor of Physic | Professor Longhair | Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | Professor X | Professor of Mathematics, Glasgow | National University of Singapore University Professor | Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs | Andrea Romano (professor) | Woodwardian Professor of Geology | Whewell Professor of International Law | Walter Raleigh (professor) | Vinerian Professor of English Law | The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether | Sterling Professor | Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology | Regius Professor of Physic (Cambridge) | Regius Professor of Divinity | Professor (film) | Professor Calculus | Professor Beware | Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions |
An example of this would be the characterisation of Merlin in The Sword in the Stone—particularly the Disney adaptation—and Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter.
While in The Shaggy D.A. (1976) he was John Slade, who shares many similarities with the first appearance of Hawk in The Absent-Minded Professor.
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Alonzo Hawk is a recurring villain in three Walt Disney movies: The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), Son of Flubber (1963), and Herbie Rides Again (1974).
Son of Flubber, a 1963 sequel to The Absent-Minded Professor