<P> Rev. Bunting is a vicar in the town of Iping . He is the man that Cuss runs to after his encounter with the "Invisible Man". He is described as being an excellent man having inferior sherry . Upon discovering the Invisible Man's three volume diaries, both Cuss and Bunting open it up . There some of the words are written in Greek and thus Bunting is called upon to decipher them . Bunting having no knowledge of either Hebrew or Greek starts stalling when the Invisible Man sets upon the both of them . The Invisible Man steals Cuss' trousers but Bunting's entire wardrobe gets purloined . </P> <Ul> <Li> The Invisible Man, a 1933 film directed by James Whale and produced by Universal Pictures . Griffin was played by Claude Rains and given the first name "Jack". One of the Universal horror films of the 1930s, and it spawned a number of sequels, plus many spin offs using the idea of an "invisible man" that were largely unrelated to Wells's original story and using a relative of Griffin as a secondary character possessing the invisibility formula . These were: The Invisible Man Returns (1940) with Vincent Price as Geoffrey Radcliffe, the film's Invisible Man; The Invisible Woman (1940), a comedy with Virginia Bruce as the title character and John Barrymore as the scientist who invents the invisibility process; Invisible Agent (1942) and The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) both starring Jon Hall (as different Invisible Men); and Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) with Arthur Franz as Tommy Nelson, a boxer framed for murder who takes the invisibility formula to find the real killer and clear his name . Vincent Price also provided the voice of the Invisible Man at the conclusion of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). </Li> <Li> The Invisible Man, a 1958 TV series that ran for two seasons and centred on espionage . Created by Ralph Smart . </Li> <Li> The Amazing Transparent Man, a 1960 science fiction / crime thriller about an invisible safecracker . </Li> <Li> Mad Monster Party (1967) included the Invisible Man (voiced by Allen Swift) as part of the monster ensemble . </Li> <Li> The Invisible Man (1975) featured a sympathetic main character who used his abilities for good . As with The Six Million Dollar Man before it, the pilot was dark in tone, but the regular series that followed was lighter . Doctor Daniel Westin (David McCallum) renders himself invisible in his lab, while working for the sinister KLAE corporation . </Li> <Li> Gemini Man, a 1976 TV series using a "DNA Stabilizer" to allow Agent Sam Casey brief periods of invisibility . </Li> <Li> The Invisible Woman, a 1983 TV - movie pilot for a prospective comedy series with Bob Denver . </Li> <Li> Человек - невидимка (Pronunciation: Chelovek - nevidimka; translation: The Invisible Man), a 1984 Soviet movie directed by Aleksandr Zakharov, with Andrei Kharitonov as Griffin . The plot was changed: Griffin was shown as a scientist talented but not understood by his contemporaries, and Kemp (starring Romualdas Ramanauskas) as a vicious person who wanted to become a ruler of the world with Griffin's help . When Griffin rejected Kemp's proposal, the latter did all his best to kill him (and finally succeeded). The movie remained unknown to the Western audience because of a violation of Wells's copyright . </Li> <Li> The Invisible Man, a 1984 television adaptation in six parts, shown on BBC 1 . </Li> <Li> Amazon Women on the Moon, a 1987 comedy anthology film featured a spoof titled Son of the Invisible Man, with Ed Begley, Jr. playing the son of the original Invisible Man who believes he is invisible, but is in fact visible--creating an awkward situation when he confidently disrobes in front of everyone . </Li> <Li> Memoirs of an Invisible Man, a 1992 modernised version of the story, starring Chevy Chase as a man who is accidentally made invisible and is then hunted by a government agent who wishes to use him as a weapon . </Li> <Li> Hollow Man, a 2000 film starring Kevin Bacon, and directed by Paul Verhoeven; this film spawned a 2006 direct - to - video sequel Hollow Man 2 starring Christian Slater as "Michael Griffin" and directed by Claudio Fah . </Li> <Li> The Invisible Man, a Sci - Fi Channel television series that aired from 2000 to 2002 . Darien Fawkes (Vincent Ventresca) is a convicted burglar who is offered freedom if he agrees to participate in a secret government project directed by his brother and funded by a secret government agency . Invisibility is achieved by implanting a synthetic gland in his brain that secretes "Quicksilver", a substance that coats his body and clothes and renders him invisible, with Fawkes able to even control which parts of his body become invisible rather than the process being' all or nothing' . The gland is subtly sabotaged in production, with the result that Quicksilver leaks into the host's brain, causing "Quicksilver Madness", a state of mental instability in which the host becomes violent and dangerous, unless given access to regular counteragent . </Li> <Li> The Invisible Man (2005) an ongoing animated television series produced by Moonscoop which is loosely based on the book . </Li> <Li> Johnny Depp is slated to appear as the titular Invisible Man in the upcoming films taking place within the Dark Universe, a modern reimagining of the Universal Monsters . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The Invisible Man, a 1933 film directed by James Whale and produced by Universal Pictures . Griffin was played by Claude Rains and given the first name "Jack". One of the Universal horror films of the 1930s, and it spawned a number of sequels, plus many spin offs using the idea of an "invisible man" that were largely unrelated to Wells's original story and using a relative of Griffin as a secondary character possessing the invisibility formula . These were: The Invisible Man Returns (1940) with Vincent Price as Geoffrey Radcliffe, the film's Invisible Man; The Invisible Woman (1940), a comedy with Virginia Bruce as the title character and John Barrymore as the scientist who invents the invisibility process; Invisible Agent (1942) and The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) both starring Jon Hall (as different Invisible Men); and Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) with Arthur Franz as Tommy Nelson, a boxer framed for murder who takes the invisibility formula to find the real killer and clear his name . Vincent Price also provided the voice of the Invisible Man at the conclusion of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). </Li> <Li> The Invisible Man, a 1958 TV series that ran for two seasons and centred on espionage . Created by Ralph Smart . </Li>

Character sketch of main characters of invisible man