Film
The Professor and the Madman
France · Ireland · Mexico · United States · IS · Belgium- Age rating
- M
- Director
- Farhad Safinia
- Year
- 2019
The incredible true story that defined our world.
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.
Top 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
Lars Brygmann
Max Mueller
Brendan Patricks
Winston Churchill
Adam Fergus
Alfred Minor
Brian Fortune
Head Board Member
Aidan McArdle
Defence Attorney Clarke
David Crowley
Parfit
Directed by
Farhad Safinia
Written by
Farhad Safinia, Todd Komarnicki, John Boorman
Produced by
Gastón Pavlovich, Mel Gibson, Bruce Davey
