The unmarked grave of Joseph Merrick - who is better known as the Elephant Man - has been traced after ... then a medical curiosity. His skeleton has been preserved at the Royal London Hospital ...

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

The only known surviving letter from Joseph Merrick, known as the Elephant Man, has gone on display ... of his head a contributory factor. His skeleton is kept in a private room at Queen Mary ...