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The Professor and the Madman

The incredible true story that defined our world.

7.120192h 4mReleased1,297 votes

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Director:
Farhad Safinia
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Cast

  • Mel Gibson

    James Murray

  • Sean Penn

    Dr. William Chester Minor

  • Natalie Dormer

    Eliza Merrett

  • Eddie Marsan

    Muncie

  • Jennifer Ehle

    Ada Murray

  • Jeremy Irvine

    Charles Hall

  • David O'Hara

    Church

  • Anthony Andrews

    Benjamin Jowett

  • Ioan Gruffudd

    Henry Bradley

  • Stephen Dillane

    Dr. Richard Brayne

  • Steve Coogan

    Frederick James Furnivall

  • Laurence Fox

    Philip Lyttelton Gell

  • Lars Brygmann

    Max Mueller

  • Brendan Patricks

    Winston Churchill

  • Adam Fergus

    Alfred Minor

  • Brian Fortune

    Head Board Member

  • Aidan McArdle

    Defence Attorney Clarke

  • David Crowley

    Parfit

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