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Professor Ellis Fowler, a gentle, bookish guide to the young, who is about to discover that life still has certain surprises, and that the campus of the Rock Spring School for Boys lies on a direct path to another institution, commonly referred to as the Twilight Zone.
The Changing of the Guard: Directed by Robert Ellis Miller. With Donald Pleasence, Liam Sullivan, Philippa Bevans, Tom Lowell. After being forced to retire, Professor Fowler contemplates suicide when he doesn't feel he's made a difference in the world.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Robert Ellis Miller
- 1962-06-01
In 1962, the producer of The Twilight Zone (1959), Buck Houghton, brought Donald to the United States ("damn the expense"!) to guest star in the third-season episode "The Changing of the Guard". He was given a mere five days to immerse himself in the part of a gentle school teacher, Professor Ellis Fowler, who, on the eve of Christmas is ...
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- Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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- Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France
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- Woody Allen and Donald Pleasence in Shadows and Fog (1991)
Pleasence's first appearance in America was in an episode of The Twilight Zone, playing an aging teacher at a boys' school in the episode "The Changing of the Guard" (1962). In 1963, he appeared in an episode of The Outer Limits titled "The Man with the Power".
YearTitleRole2021Dr. Sam Loomis1996Professor Robertson1995Safe HavenThe Sailor1995Dr. Sam LoomisDonald Pleasence was heavily made up in order to appear much older than his actual age of 42. The quote Professor Fowler reads on the statue's plinth, "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity," is the motto of Rod Serling's alma mater Antioch College, and was said by its first president, Horace Mann, at the college's ...
Mar 20, 2018 · The story of an aging schoolmaster who finds some faith, some hope, and some mending glue for a few shattered dreams. But he finds it in that strange manner unique in the shadow regions of the Twilight Zone. Next week Donald Pleasence stars in “The Changing of the Guard.”
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Nov 8, 2011 · The Plot: Professor Fowler (Donald Pleasance) has been teaching poetry to young men for 51 years. As he recites a poem, however, he looks around the classroom at his students.
