Maximillian Arturo

Maximilian Arturo
First appearance	"Sliders, Part One"
Last appearance	"The Exodus, Part II" (chronological) "The Last of Eden" (airdate) "The Seer" (cameo)
Created by	Tracy Tormé Robert K. Weiss
Portrayed by	John Rhys-Davies
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Nickname(s)	Prof Professor Max
Occupation	Professor
Title	Professor

Professor Maximillian P. Arturo (often called the Professor, or simply Professor, or occasionally Max, during the third season) is a fictional character on the science fiction television show Sliders. He was played by John Rhys-Davies.

Maximillian P. Arturo was born in Great Britain during the early 1940s. (His driving licence, shown in "Summer of Love," indicates that his birthdate is September 23.) When he was a young child, his aunt's house was bombed by the Luftwaffe while he and his mother were staying there. Both Arturo's mother and aunt were killed. His only memories of this incident were his mother's dead body being pulled off him. Since his father was fighting in India at the time, there was no way for Arturo to be identified, so he was put in an orphanage. After the war ended, Arturo's father came to get him ("Season's Greedings").

Arturo served in the British Army as a young adult. After completing his service, he moved to the United States, where he pursued graduate studies in physics, and met fellow student Christina Fox, whom he later married. Christina died of a brain aneurysm when she was 27 ("Eggheads"). Arturo had a son; however, it is not revealed in the show whether or not Christina Fox was the mother ("Into the Mystic"). At the beginning of the pilot, Arturo was Regents professor of cosmology and ontology at the fictional California University.

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