Lynch’s 1980 film The Elephant Man, based on the real-life story of Joseph Merrick, is unusual in his career for many reasons. It is a period drama based on a true story, set in Victorian ...

The Actors’ Mission Community Theater will host auditions for its final production of the season, "The Elephant Man" by ...

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 ...

In honour of his peerless contribution, here are Lynch’s six essential works: ...

Lynch found his first taste of mainstream critical acceptance with his 1980 biographical account of the life of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man. The film, which starred John Hurt and Anthony ...

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.