The Professor and the Madman

The incredible true story that defined our world.

Duration: 124 min

Release date: 2019-03-07

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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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as James Murray

as Dr. William Chester Minor

as Eliza Merrett

as Charles Hall

Anthony Andrews

Anthony Andrews

as Benjamin Jowett

as Henry Bradley

Stephen Dillane

Stephen Dillane

as Dr. Richard Brayne

as Frederick James Furnivall

as Philip Lyttelton Gell

Brendan Patricks

Brendan Patricks

as Winston Churchill

as Alfred Minor

as Head Board Member

as Defence Attorney Clarke

Kieran O'Reilly

Kieran O'Reilly

as Minor's Father

as Henry Liddell

Oengus MacNamara

Oengus MacNamara

Christopher Maleki

Christopher Maleki

Malcolm Freeman

Malcolm Freeman

as Attendant No.1

Olivia McKevitt

Olivia McKevitt

as Clare Merrett

as George Merrett

Robert McCormack

Robert McCormack

as Harold Murray

as Scriptorium Assistant

as Elsie Murray

as Eastman Minor

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Gastón Pavlovich

Gastón Pavlovich

Todd Komarnicki

Todd Komarnicki

Production Design

Director of Photography

Original Music Composer

Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester

Stunt Coordinator

Darron Costello

Darron Costello

Brendan Condren

Brendan Condren

Stunt Coordinator

Stunt Coordinator

Crowd Assistant Director

Steffen Geypens

Steffen Geypens

Post Production Supervisor

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