What is the name of Belle's inventor father?

Belle’s inventor father in *Beauty and the Beast* is named Maurice.

Maurice is introduced as an eccentric village inventor whose neighbors consider his projects strange or impractical. At the beginning of the 1991 animated film, he is working on an automatic wood-chopping machine and plans to display it at a fair. He becomes lost in the woods and reaches the Beast’s castle, where the Beast imprisons him after he enters the grounds.

Belle discovers what happened and offers to take her father’s place. Maurice protests, but the Beast accepts the exchange, beginning Belle’s life at the castle and the relationship that drives the story.

Maurice is often confused with the enchanted servants because Cogsworth is the castle’s clock-like butler, while Chip is Mrs. Potts’s teacup son. Gaston is Belle’s arrogant suitor, and LeFou is Gaston’s sidekick. Maurice’s role also differs slightly in the 2017 live-action remake, where he makes music boxes rather than focusing on the same invention shown in the animated film.