Sylvia Barrett, new teacher at a New York City high school, portrayed by
Sandy Dennis in Up the Down Staircase (1967). Based on the novel of the same name by
Bel Kaufman, who taught for 30 years in New York City schools.
Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach portrayed in the 2002 television movie The Junction Boys and the 1984 theatrical feature The Bear. Bryant is also a minor character in Forrest Gump, in which he coaches the title character during his college years.
William Carlock in the 2010 biographical film
Temple Grandin
Noel Chestnut, track team coach and prison guard portrayed in the 2008 film Racing for Time
Joe Louis Clark, high school principal credited with the turnaround of a troubled and dangerous New Jersey high school. Joe Clark was portrayed by
Morgan Freeman in the 1990 film
Lean on Me
Marva Collins, American educator who in 1975 started Westside Preparatory School in the impoverished
Garfield Park neighborhood of
Chicago, portrayed in the 1981 docudrama TV movie The Marva Collins Story
Sarah Grace Cooke, on whom the character Miss Moffatt was closely modeled in the
1945 film and the
1979 made-for-TV movieThe Corn Is Green
Richard Dadier, English teacher portrayed by
Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle (1955), a film based on Evan Hunter's experience among unruly students at the Bronx Technical High School
Jim Morris, high school science teacher and baseball coach who became a major league baseball player after his students encouraged him to try out, portrayed in the 2002 film The Rookie
Catana Starks, former Tennessee State Tigers swim coach, who became the first woman ever to coach a college men's golf team in the 2014 film From the Rough
Sylvia Barrett, new teacher at a New York City high school, portrayed by
Sandy Dennis in Up the Down Staircase (1967). Based on the novel of the same name by
Bel Kaufman, who taught for 30 years in New York City schools.
Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach portrayed in the 2002 television movie The Junction Boys and the 1984 theatrical feature The Bear. Bryant is also a minor character in Forrest Gump, in which he coaches the title character during his college years.
William Carlock in the 2010 biographical film
Temple Grandin
Noel Chestnut, track team coach and prison guard portrayed in the 2008 film Racing for Time
Joe Louis Clark, high school principal credited with the turnaround of a troubled and dangerous New Jersey high school. Joe Clark was portrayed by
Morgan Freeman in the 1990 film
Lean on Me
Marva Collins, American educator who in 1975 started Westside Preparatory School in the impoverished
Garfield Park neighborhood of
Chicago, portrayed in the 1981 docudrama TV movie The Marva Collins Story
Sarah Grace Cooke, on whom the character Miss Moffatt was closely modeled in the
1945 film and the
1979 made-for-TV movieThe Corn Is Green
Richard Dadier, English teacher portrayed by
Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle (1955), a film based on Evan Hunter's experience among unruly students at the Bronx Technical High School
Jim Morris, high school science teacher and baseball coach who became a major league baseball player after his students encouraged him to try out, portrayed in the 2002 film The Rookie
Catana Starks, former Tennessee State Tigers swim coach, who became the first woman ever to coach a college men's golf team in the 2014 film From the Rough