The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor Directed By: Tom Shadyac Produced By: * Brian Grazer Russell Simmons Starring: * Eddie Murphy Jada Pinkett James Coburn Dave Chappelle Screenplay writer: * David Sheffield Barry W. Blaustein Tom Shadyac Steve Oedekerk Cinematography: Julio Macat Editor: Don Zimmerman Music composer: David Newman Production studio: Imagine Entertainment Eddie Murphy Productions Distributed By: Universal Pictures Release Date: June 28, 1996 Runtime: 96 minutes Country: United States Language: English Budget: $54 million Box Office: $274 million

Cast

• Eddie Murphy as:
  • Professor Sherman Klump
  • Buddy Love
  • Lance Perkins, a parody of Richard Simmons
  • Cletus Klump, Sherman's father
  • Anna Pearl Jensen-Klump, Sherman's mother
  • Ida Mae Jensen, Anna's mother and Sherman's maternal grandmother
  • Ernie Klump Sr., Sherman's older brother
• Jada Pinkett as Carla Purty
• James Coburn as Harlan Hartley
• Larry Miller as Dean Richmond
• Dave Chappelle as Reggie Warrington, a Def Jam comedian
  • Chappelle reprised his role on Chris Rock's 1997 album Roll with the New.
• John Ales as Jason
• Jamal Mixon as Ernie Klump Jr., Sherman's nephew. Ernie Jr. is the only member of the Klump family played by a different actor.
• Montell Jordan as Himself
• Ned Luke as a construction worker
• Hamilton Von Watts as Health Inspector