Tucker was hurriedly hired, with five weeks to design the inimitable appearance of the elephant man, and took Merrick’s skeleton out of the London Hospital Museum in order to study it.

But he booked an appointment at The Vale Dental Clinic in north London in 2021 after experiencing ... was swollen up — I looked like the Elephant Man,' he said. 'I have lost all feeling in ...

"The Elephant Man," about a severely deformed man in Victorian London, was nominated for eight Academy Awards in 1981. Although it failed to win an Oscar, it launched Lynch into the mainstream.

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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.