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The Professor and the Madman

20192h 4m7.1/ 10 · TMDB · 1,322 votes
HistoryDramaMysteryThriller

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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Directed by Farhad Safinia

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Ansh Kapoor

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The people behind the story

Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson

James Murray

Sean Penn
Sean Penn

Dr. William Chester Minor

Natalie Dormer
Natalie Dormer

Eliza Merrett

Eddie Marsan
Eddie Marsan

Muncie

Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Ehle

Ada Murray

Jeremy Irvine
Jeremy Irvine

Charles Hall

David O'Hara
David O'Hara

Church

Anthony Andrews
Anthony Andrews

Benjamin Jowett

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

Henry Bradley

Stephen Dillane
Stephen Dillane

Dr. Richard Brayne

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Film details

Released7 Mar 2019
Original languageEnglish
CountriesFrance, Ireland, Mexico, United States of America, Iceland, Belgium
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Steve Coogan
Steve Coogan

Frederick James Furnivall

Laurence Fox
Laurence Fox

Philip Lyttelton Gell