John Hurt as Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man Credit: Images Press Other performers soon joined the cast, including Hopkins – then a respected British character actor rather than an Oscar ...

Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, was the most shockingly disfigured person in history. His massive, bulbous head was so heavy that he had to sleep sitting up. Some parts of his body were grossly ...

I am not an animal. I am a human being. I am a man,” John Hurt screams late in The Elephant Man while being chased by a mob.

The play is about the cruelty Merrick endures as the sideshow freak dubbed “Elephant Man,” and the compassion he receives from the more open-hearted souls in his orbit. “The Elephant Man” won the Tony ...

A disability charity has criticised a show set to appear on the BBC for casting Charlie Heaton in a remake of the Elephant Man. The Stranger Things actor will play Joseph Merrick - who had severe ...

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Elephant Man director, dies aged 78 - The brilliant auteur whose unsettling, beautiful dreamscapes skewered the hypocrisy of the American dream has passed away at 78 ...

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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.

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaThe case of the elephant man is one of the great unsolved mysteries of medicine. What was the terrible curse that turned Joseph Merrick into history's most horribly ...

The Elephant Man is an extraordinary and intensely moving true story of ...bravery and humanity. John Merrick (John Hurt) is The Elephant Man, forced into circus sideshows and spurned by society ...