The Absent-Minded Professor
Reid played the snide Professor Shelby Ashton of Rutland University (the rival of perennial underdog Medfield College) in two Walt Disney movies starring Fred MacMurray: "The Absent-Minded Professor" in 1961, and its sequel "Son of Flubber" in 1963. Reid also played Ralph Hastings in Disney's 1966 movie "Follow Me, Boys!" and a television commentator in Disney's "Blackbeard's Ghos"t" in 1968.