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Professor Challenger

Professor Challenger
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George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, was a fictional character in a series of fantasy and science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Conan Doyle's laid-back, analytical character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger was an aggressive, dominating figure.

Biography

(D'après les notes de M. McArdle, rédacteur en chef du Daily Gazette)

Challenger, George Edward est né à Largs en 1863. Il a fait ses études à l’Académie puis à l'Edinburgh University. Il devient assistant au British Museum en 1892, puis entre l'année suivante dans le Département d’Anthropologie comparative comme Conservateur adjoint. Il remporte de nombreux prix et devient membre de différentes sociétés comme l'Académie des Sciences de la Plata. Il est l'auteur de Quelques observations sur une série de crânes kalmouks, Esquisses de l’évolution vertébrée et Les Mensonges du Weissmanisme (ce dernier article provoqua une discussion orageuse au Congrès Zoologique de Vienne). Il demeure à Enmore Park, Kensington avec sa femme, Jessie, et leur fille Enid.

Lorsque ses collègues et la presse se moquent de ses découvertes en Amérique du Sud au sujet d'un « monde perdu », le professeur Challenger devient irritable au point de se jeter sur quiconque l’interrompt et d'envoyer les journalistes dégringoler dans les escaliers. Son épouse, Jessie, est attristée de voir ce grand homme tourné en dérision pour ses accès de violence. Devant l'incrédulité de ses confrères, il propose l'envoi d'une expédition zoologique dans les profondeurs de la forêt amazonienne pour vérifier la véracité de ces faits...

Sa fille, Enid Challenger, devient la fiancée d'Edward Malone, le jeune journaliste du Daily Gazette .

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Filmography of Professor Challenger (3 films)

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King of the Lost World, 1h30
Directed by Leigh Slawner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Bruce Boxleitner, Steve Railsback, Leigh Slawner, Eliza Swenson, Andrew Lauer
Rating24% 1.2329251.2329251.2329251.2329251.232925
A plane crashes in a remote jungle. Many survive, but the front end of the plane and the cockpit are nowhere to be found. The only way to seek help is to find the cockpit and radio a message.
The Lost World, 1h37
Directed by Robert "Bob" Keen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Patrick Bergin, Michael Sinelnikoff, Jayne Heitmeyer, Tamara Gorski
Rating38% 1.923151.923151.923151.923151.92315
Mongolia, 1934. The researcher Maple White (Jack Langedijk), together with his assistant Azbek (Russell Yuen), discovers an unknown world populated by dinosaurs, situated on a plateau in Mongolia. After having found a dinosaur's egg in a cave, White celebrates the discovery, with Azbek, uncorking a bottle of champagne and listening to classical music. Azbek is attacked and killed by Dimorphodons, which also attack White who falls from the plateau holding onto a rope; he survives but is seriously wounded, White is found again and taken care of by Myar and Djena (Gregorian Minot Payeur), respectively Azbek's brother and sister; White asks the two to bring him his friend George Challenger (Patrick Bergin) to whom White gives an account of his adventures, proposing to Challenger that he should try to fully explore the plateau in his place.
The Lost World, 1h46
Directed by Harry O. Hoyt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Virginia Brown Faire, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett
Rating69% 3.4954253.4954253.4954253.4954253.495425
From a lost expedition to a plateau in Venezuela, Paula White brings the journal of her father explorer Maple White to the eccentric Professor Challenger in London. The journal features sketches of dinosaurs which is enough proof for Challenger to publicly announce that dinosaurs still walk the earth. Met with ridicule at an academic meeting at the Zoological Hall, Challenger reluctantly accepts a newspaper's offer to finance a mission to rescue Maple White. Professor Challenger, Paula White, sportsman Sir John Roxton, news reporter Edward Malone (who is a friend of Roxton and wishes to go on the expedition to impress his fiancée), a sceptical professor Summerlee, an Indian servant Zambo, and Challenger's butler Austin leave for the plateau.