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
Perspective (film) which was in production, intermittently, from 2002 to 2013. "Perspective" spans nearly a decade in the lives of fictional characters that actually age. “As a recording art form, motion pictures are uniquely paradoxical,” says Paquette, “they can capture realities that authenticate its artifice.” From Rolf Leslie playing twenty-seven characters in the life story of Queen Victoria in the silent feature "Sixty Years a Queen" in 1913 to Eddie Murphy playing eight characters in "" in 2000, the casting of a performer to play two or more characters in a film is, and always has been, common. The history of casting