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

One of Hollywood’s worst weeks in just got worse. David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Blue Velvet, ...

That’s the closing line of David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, about the life of the disfigured performer John Merrick (John Hurt). The film begins with nightmarish images of elephants striking ...

The Elephant Man, which was much more mainstream than Eraserhead, although it also deals with physical deformity—in this case, a tale loosely based on the late 19th-century life of John Merrick ...

The play is about the cruelty Merrick endures as the sideshow freak dubbed “Elephant Man,” and the compassion he receives ...

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 ...

John Nance played ... long fascinated Lynch, and The Elephant Man became his greatest commentary on those who exist on the fringes. Based on the life of Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man ...

David Lynch (middle) directs John Nance (right ... Based on the life of Joseph Merrick, a severely deformed man who lived in London in the late 19th century, The Elephant Man starred Anthony ...