The acclaimed director, who died at age 78, encountered difficulties on the set of his Oscar-nominated film ‘The Elephant Man.’ ...

John Hurt as Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man Credit ... for my behaviour because I saw Elephant Man and it was really a terrific movie. Mulholland Drive and all the films that he’s done ...

That’s the closing line of David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, about the life of the disfigured performer John Merrick (John Hurt). The film begins with nightmarish images of elephants striking ...

The play is about the cruelty Merrick endures as the sideshow freak dubbed “Elephant Man,” and the compassion he receives ...

One of Hollywood’s worst weeks in just got worse. David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Blue Velvet, ...

The unmarked grave of Joseph Merrick - who is better known as the Elephant Man - has been traced after nearly 130 years, it has been claimed. Merrick had a skeletal and soft tissue deformity which ...

The life of Joseph Merrick, the man they dared to call "The Elephant Man", will fill you with pain and anger. He was treated so cruelly by society that he found becoming a freak show exhibit ...

Poignant drama starring John Hurt as John Merrick. Born in Victorian England with a disfiguring disease and doomed to a grim existence, hope springs when someone shows pity on him.

Set in Victorian London, The Elephant Man is a compelling drama which explores the heights and depths of human emotion through the true story of the famous historical figure, John Merrick.