The Professor and the Madman 2019

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.

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The 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

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