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The Professor and the Madman

2019·124 min

The Professor and the Madman

Directed by Farhad Safinia

HistoryDramaMysteryThriller

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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James Murray

Dr. William Chester Minor

Eliza Merrett

Muncie

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Todd Komarnicki

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Gastón Pavlovich

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Ada Murray

Charles Hall

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Anthony Andrews

Benjamin Jowett

Henry Bradley

Stephen Dillane

Dr. Richard Brayne

Frederick James Furnivall

Philip Lyttelton Gell

Max Mueller

Brendan Patricks

Winston Churchill

Alfred Minor

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The Professor and the Madman (2019) is about 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.

Who directed The Professor and the Madman?

Farhad Safinia directed The Professor and the Madman (2019).

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