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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  Farhad Safinia
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  Ian Adams

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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
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  Steve Coogan
  Frederick James Furnivall
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  Laurence Fox
  Philip Lyttelton Gell
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  Lars Brygmann
  Max Mueller
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  Brendan Patricks
  Winston Churchill
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  Adam Fergus
  Alfred Minor
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  Brian Fortune
  Head Board Member
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  Aidan McArdle
  Defence Attorney Clarke
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  David Crowley
  Parfit
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  Kieran O'Reilly
  Minor's Father
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  Bryan Murray
  Henry Liddell