The Professor and the Madman
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Chester Minor.
The Professor and the Madman
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Chester Minor.
Trailer
Cast
Farhad Safinia
Director
Mel Gibson
James Murray
Sean Penn
Dr. William Chester Minor
Eddie Marsan
Mr. Muncie
Natalie Dormer
Eliza Merrett
Jennifer Ehle
Ada Murray
Steve Coogan
Frederick James Furnivall
Stephen Dillane
Dr. Richard Brayn
Ioan Gruffudd
Henry Bradley
Jeremy Irvine
Charles Hall
Laurence Fox
Philip Lyttelton Gell
Anthony Andrews
Benjamin Jowett
