Anne Bancroft and John Hurt in The Elephant Man This eventually included Brooks, who hit it off with the director when he met Lynch. “His shirt was buttoned – always buttoned – at the top.

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.

John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940) is an English actor, known for his leading roles as John Merrick in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit ...

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 ...

The Elephant Man - 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 ...

John Hurt was in over 100 films (including “some stinkers”, as he cheerfully admitted) and played a huge range of characters: from the pathos of John Merrick in The Elephant Man to the schlock ...