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The Dexter Riley film series consists of American science fiction-comedy films, centered around a college student played by Kurt Russell. [1] [2] The films, produced by The Walt Disney Company and taking place at the fictional Medfield College, follow the science class led by Professor Quigley, and their experiments, projects, and adventures.
It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution Company. It was one of several films made by Disney using the setting of Medfield College, first used in the 1961 Disney film The Absent-Minded Professor and its sequel Son of Flubber. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is the first film for the series Dexter Riley.
It is the second film in Dexter Riley series. Now You See Him, Now You Don't was the first Disney film to be shown on television in a two-hour time slot, in 1975. [2] Previous television showings of Disney films had either shown them edited or split into two one-hour time slots.
The Strongest Man in the World is a 1975 American science fiction comedy film directed by Vincent McEveety, produced by Walt Disney Productions, and starring Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn (in his first of two posthumous roles) and Eve Arden. It was the third and final film in Dexter Riley series.
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At the age of 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest ...
Norwood Gill, a child prodigy and computer hacker from a rival school that won the Quiz Bowl three times and develops an obsession with Dexter, and probes into his background. Government agents also investigate Dexter as a potential computer hacker known as "Viper". [3] Norwood ultimately uncovers the origin of Dexter's intellect.
Walt Disney. Walt Disney’s road to success was anything but smooth. His first commercial art studio, Laugh-O-Gram Studios, went bankrupt. Disney was broke and out of luck — but not out of ideas.
Set at fictional Medfield College, these three films featured Kurt Russell as college student Dexter Riley and McGreevey as his friend Richard Schuyler. [4] McGreevey also appeared as a different character in the Disney films Snowball Express (1972) and The Shaggy D.A. (1976).