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 ...
His take on the heartbreaking story of Joseph Merrick made his career – but is the late director’s least typical film also ...
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 ...
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 life of Joseph Merrick, the man they dared to call "The Elephant Man", will fill you with pain and anger. He was treated so cruelly by society that he found becoming a freak show exhibit ...
In honour of his peerless contribution, here are Lynch’s six essential works: ...
The play is about the cruelty Merrick endures as the sideshow freak dubbed “Elephant Man,” and the compassion he receives ...
The brilliant auteur whose unsettling, beautiful dreamscapes skewered the hypocrisy of the American dream has passed away at ...
Here are five key films that defined the expansive career of US director David Lynch, who has recently passed aged 78.