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.
as James Murray
as Dr. William Chester Minor
as Eliza Merrett
as Muncie
as Ada Murray
as Charles Hall
as Church
as Benjamin Jowett
as Henry Bradley
as Dr. Richard Brayne
as Frederick James Furnivall
as Philip Lyttelton Gell
as Max Mueller
as Winston Churchill
as Alfred Minor
as Head Board Member
as Defence Attorney Clarke
as Parfit
as Minor's Father
as Henry Liddell
as Bailiff #1
as Joseph
as Tom Coleman
as Sir Richard
as Lambeth Man
as Colonel
as Attendant No.1
as Clare Merrett
as George Merrett
as Harold Murray
as Gate Guard
as Scriptorium Assistant
as Elsie Murray
as Guard
as Eastman Minor
