Anne Bancroft and John Hurt in The Elephant Man This ... with five weeks to design the inimitable appearance of the elephant man, and took Merrick’s skeleton out of the London Hospital Museum ...

“The Elephant Man” — which premiered on a London stage in 1977 and is not to be confused with the 1980 David Lynch film — tells the true story of John Merrick, a man relegated to the farthest fringes ...

known for his leading roles as John Merrick in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit, Stephen Ward in Scandal and Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil ...