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The Professor and the Madman

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.

2019 |2h 4m |  History, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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Cast

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Mel Gibson

James Murray

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Sean Penn

Dr. William Chester Minor

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Eddie Marsan

Muncie

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Natalie Dormer

Eliza Merrett

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Ioan Gruffudd

Henry Bradley

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Steve Coogan

Frederick James Furnivall

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Jeremy Irvine

Charles Hall

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Brendan Patricks

Winston Churchill

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Adam Fergus

Alfred Minor

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Jennifer Ehle

Ada Murray

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Brian Fortune

Head Board Member

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Aidan McArdle

Defence Attorney Clarke

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David Crowley

Parfit

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Kieran O'Reilly

Minor's Father

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Bryan Murray

Henry Liddell

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Oengus MacNamara

Bailiff #1

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Christopher Maleki

Joseph

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Sean Duggan

Tom Coleman

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Bryan Quinn

Sir Richard

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Steve Gunn

Lambeth Man

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Malcolm Freeman

Colonel

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Joe McKinney

Attendant No.1

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Olivia McKevitt

Clare Merrett

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Shane Noone

George Merrett

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Robert McCormack

Harold Murray

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John Morton

Scriptorium Assistant

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Abigail Coburn

Elsie Murray

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Stephen Dillane

Dr. Richard Brayne

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David O'Hara

Church

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Laurence Fox

Philip Lyttelton Gell

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Lars Brygmann

Max Mueller

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Anthony Andrews

Benjamin Jowett

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Released

Language

English

Budget

$25,000,000.00

Revenue

$4,957,273.00