The Professor and the Madman (2019)
The Professor and the Madman (2019)
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Cast & Crew.
Mel Gibson
James Murray / Producer
Sean Penn
Dr. William Chester Minor
Eddie Marsan
Muncie
Natalie Dormer
Eliza Merrett
Ioan Gruffudd
Henry Bradley
Steve Coogan
Frederick James Furnivall
Jeremy Irvine
Charles Hall
Brendan Patricks
Winston Churchill
Adam Fergus
Alfred Minor
Jennifer Ehle
Ada Murray
Brian Fortune
Head Board Member
Aidan McArdle
Defence Attorney Clarke
David Crowley
Parfit
Kieran O'Reilly
Minor's Father
Bryan Murray
Henry Liddell
Oengus MacNamara
Bailiff #1
Nicolas Chartier
Producer
Christopher Maleki
Joseph
Gaston Pavlovich
Producer
Sean Duggan
Tom Coleman
Bryan Quinn
Sir Richard
Steve Gunn
Lambeth Man
Malcolm Freeman
Colonel
Joe McKinney
Attendant No.1
Olivia McKevitt
Clare Merrett
Shane Noone
George Merrett
Robert McCormack
Harold Murray
Ronan O'Connor
Gate Guard
John Morton
Scriptorium Assistant
Abigail Coburn
Elsie Murray
Paul Gough
Guard
Lucas Browne
Eastman Minor
Stephen Dillane
Dr. Richard Brayne
David O'Hara
Church
Laurence Fox
Philip Lyttelton Gell
Lars Brygmann
Max Mueller
Anthony Andrews
Benjamin Jowett
Dino Jonsäter
Editor
Farhad Safinia
Director / Writer
Dan Hubbard
Casting
Gastón Pavlovich
Producer
Todd Komarnicki
Writer
Bruce Davey
Producer
Tom Conroy
Production Design
John Boorman
Writer
Kasper Tuxen
Director of Photography
Bear McCreary
Original Music Composer
Simon Winchester
Book
Giedrius Nagys
Stunt Coordinator
Paul Carroll
Stunts
Martin White
Stunts
Darron Costello
Stunts
David Flynn
Stunts
Gary Robinson
Stunts
Martin Kenny
Stunts
Andrew Eadie
Stunts
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 7, 2019
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 4m
Budget$25,000,000
Box Office$4,957,273
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This Movie Is About.
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The Professor and the Madman is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Farhad Safinia (under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran), from a screenplay by Safinia and Todd Komarnicki based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman) by Simon Winchester. It stars Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, Natalie Dormer, Eddie Marsan, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Irvine, David O'Hara, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, and Steve Coogan.
The film is about professor James Murray, who in 1879 became director of an Oxford University Press project, The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (now known as the Oxford English Dictionary) and the man who became his friend and colleague, W. C. Minor, a doctor who submitted more than 10,000 entries while he was confined at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Crowthorne after being found not guilty of murder due to insanity.
Shot in Dublin in 2016, the film became part of a legal battle between Gibson and Safinia against Voltage Pictures, delaying its release until 2019 and resulting in the pair disowning the final product.