The Absent-Minded Professor Olson, Reid, and Kirk reprising their roles. Hewitt also returns (now as District Attorney), as well as the two Wynns (Keenan reprising his Alonzo Hawk role). "The Absent-Minded Professor" has been remade twice, once as a 1988 television version with Harry Anderson and Mary Page Keller as the renamed characters Prof. Henry Crawford and Ellen Whitley; and once more as a 1997 theatrical film titled, "Flubber," with Robin Williams as the renamed Prof. "Philip" Brainard, with Marcia Gay Harden as his love interest, Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds (Nancy Olson appears in a cameo). Neither remake was as successful or is
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard A posthumous "The literary remains of J.G.C. Brainard: with a sketch of his life" was published in 1832, and revised and republished as "The poems of John G. C. Brainard. A new and authentic collection". A number of his poems are reprinted in collections of poems. His poem "On the Project of African Colonization" is quoted in Harriet Beecher Stowe´s book Uncle Tom's Cabin at the end of chapter XXXVII "Liberty" although without credit and reference. John Gardiner Calkins Brainard John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828) was an American lawyer, editor and poet. John Brainard was born in New London, Connecticut,