The Professor and the Madman

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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  Mel Gibson

  James Murray
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  Sean Penn

  Dr. William Chester Minor
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  Natalie Dormer

  Eliza Merrett
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  Eddie Marsan

  Muncie
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  Jennifer Ehle

  Ada Murray
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  Jeremy Irvine

  Charles Hall
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  David O'Hara

  Church
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  Anthony Andrews

  Benjamin Jowett
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  Ioan Gruffudd

  Henry Bradley
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  Stephen Dillane

  Dr. Richard Brayne