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"Doc" Emmett Brown from Back to the Future is an example of an absent-minded scientist-inventor character. He is depicted as strange, eccentric, or insane. Another example is 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.
Calculus first appeared in Red Rackham's Treasure (more specifically in the newspaper prepublication of 4–5 March 1943 [2]), and was the result of Hergé's long quest to find the archetypal mad scientist or absent-minded professor. Although Hergé had included characters with similar traits in earlier stories, Calculus developed into a much ...
She performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in its 2001–2002 and 2003–2004 seasons. [1] She appeared in The Roman Actor opposite Sir Antony Sher.From 2003 to 2005, she was a regular cast member of ITV's The Royal in which she played Nurse Samantha Beaumont.
However, his superior officer intercepts him before he reaches Darrowby, and he has to resume looking after the bird. Siegfried, Carmody and Mrs Pumphrey spend a lot of time preparing for the Christmas lunch in the Drovers Arms, while Mrs Hall does most of the real work. Helen goes into labour and has to wait a long time for a midwife.
Tristan, on the other hand, takes over the household duties from Mrs Hall in "Hair of the Dog" and "Home and Away", and James has to pick up the slack when Helen is out of action, on account of a slipped disc, in the first few episodes of series 5. The Pebble Mill set was laid out to match Skeldale House as it appeared in exterior shots. [2]
Seth Brundle – eccentric but brilliant physicist who invented the telepods, machines capable of teleportation; Sebastian Caine; Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) – when he learns of the destructive destiny of his future creation, Dyson destroys his research
There's a lot of very good science going on, but I am negative about some of the excessive hype," he said. He wrote his book to inject a note of realism into the space, he said.
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944): Jon Hall stars as Robert Griffin / Invisible Man. Griffin is a madman who seeks revenge on those who have wronged him, and becomes invisible upon experimentation by eccentric scientist Dr. Peter Drury and uses it to get revenge on his former friends and business partners turned enemies, Sir Jasper and Lady ...