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
Timothy Patrick Murphy "Glitter". In addition to this, he appeared in episodes of the television shows "Quincy, M.E.", "CHiPs", "Teachers Only", "Hotel", "The Love Boat" and "Hunter". He appeared in the 1981 film "The Bushido Blade". One of Murphy's most substantial roles was in the 1984 feature film "Sam's Son", the film biography of the early life of actor Michael Landon, in which he played the character of Gene Orowitz (the young Landon). Murphy died of AIDS on December 6, 1988 in Sherman Oaks, California, aged 29, and was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. He once stated