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

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 ...

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 ... letter he thanks her for some grouse and a book. It is on show at the Record Office for ...

The death of American filmmaker David Lynch, who was also a painter, musician, sound designer, actor, singer and photographer ...