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
George Wilson Pierson a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends." Pierson's published writings encompass 38 works in 53 publications in 2 languages and 3,904 library holdings. His works are widely studied and are used frequently in most collegiate level U.S. history courses. George Wilson Pierson George Wilson Pierson (22 October 1904 – 12 October 1993) was an American academic, historian, author and Larned Professor of History at Yale University. He was the first official historian of the university. Pierson was a descendant of Yale's first rector, Abraham Pierson, and he was related to the college's first student. He was the