His take on the heartbreaking story of Joseph Merrick made his career – but is the late director’s least typical film also ...

Here are five key films that defined the expansive career of US director David Lynch, who has recently passed aged 78.

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 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 only known surviving letter from Joseph Merrick, known as the Elephant Man, has gone on display. The letter was written to a young widow called Leila Maturin, who was said to have been the ...

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