The Professor and the Madman (2019)2h04
History · Drama
Director Farhad Safinia
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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Cast
Mel Gibson
Sean Penn
Natalie Dormer
Eddie Marsan
Jennifer Ehle
Jeremy Irvine
David O'Hara
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