The Nutty Professor (character) The Nutty Professor (character) The Nutty Professor (known as Julius E. Kelp in the original film (1963) and as Prof. Sherman Klump in the 1996 remake, and by his alter ego Buddy Love) is a fictional character portrayed by Jerry Lewis in "The Nutty Professor" and its respective sequel, and by Eddie Murphy in the 1996 version and its 2000 sequel "". Julius E. Kelp is an awkward and shy but intelligent and lively chemist professor. Sherman Klump is a jolly, kind-hearted science teacher at Welman College. Murphy also played the rest of Klump's family in the sequel. Lewis was
Buddy cop film cop film genre are the 1967 American film "In the Heat of the Night" and 1974's "Freebie and the Bean". The genre was later popularized by the 1982 film "48 Hrs.", starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte, one of the most successful buddy cop films. 1987 saw the buddy cop genre reach its apex when "Lethal Weapon" made a theatrical debut. 1989 saw the release of "Tango and Cash", starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell. Buddy cop film A buddy cop film is a film with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to