The actor joins Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake in the hilarious 2011 flick Bad Teacher as a junior high school gym teacher.
Tough ex-marine gal Louanne Johnson is hired as an inner-city high school teacher in the 1995 film Dangerous Minds.
The 57-year-old actor plays a high school teacher who secretly turns to producing crystal meth in order to provide for his family on the hit TV series Breaking Bad.
Ken plays Señor Ben Chang, a Spanish teacher at a local community college in the hilarious TV series Community.
Dot Jones is Shannon Beiste, aka one tough cookie. Beiste is McKinley High's football coach on the TV series Glee.
Robin is inspirational English teacher John Keating who teaches his students poetry and the mantra "Seize the Day" in the 1989 classic Dead Poets Society.
Meryl Streep plays a school teacher who struggles to teach inner-city kids the beauty of music through the violin in the heartfelt and based on a true story 1999 film Music of the Heart .
Detective Pryzbylewski or known as "Prezbo" by his students is a former cop who quits the force and becomes a teacher in the HBO series The Wire.
Columbus University has actor Laurence Fishburne as a professor in the 1995 film Higher Learning.
Stephen plays a married, high school history teacher who hides his sexuality and his secret relationship with the school's art teacher in the TV comedy Strangers With Candy.
Dennis is Principal Richard Belding of Bayside High School until the final episode where Belding takes a promotion as Dean of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the TV series Saved by the Bell.
Gabe Kotter returns to his alma mater in Brooklyn to teach an unruly group of high school students in the '70s TV series Welcome Back, Kotter.
The famous 90’s Boy Meets World TV series principal, Mr. George Feeny is portrayed by William Daniels. Mr. Feeny helps his students pretty much survive their high school years.
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