The Professor and the Madman

2019·124'

Farhad Safinia

DramaThrillerMysteryHistory

English

Letterboxd TMDB #411728

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.

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