Bytes is the main antagonist of the 1980 biographical drama film The Elephant Man. He is the cruel, brutish owner of a carnival freak show in Victorian London who frequently abuses his severely deformed "star attraction", John Merrick.

The Elephant Man is a 1980 biographical drama film loosely based on the life of Joseph Merrick (referred to as "John" in the film), a severely deformed man who lived in London in the late 19th century.

Bytes : Life!... is full of surprises. Consider the fate of this creature's poor mother, struck down in the fourth month of her maternal condition by an elephant, a wild elephant. Struck down!... on an uncharted African isle. The result is plain to see... Ladies and gentlemen... The terrible...

In 19th Century Victorian England, Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) wanders through an urban carnival in search of freak shows. He happens on a hideously deformed creature called The Elephant Man (John Hurt), and pays the owner Mr. Bytes (Freddie Jones) to examine it.

In 19th Century Victorian England, Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) wanders through an urban carnival in search of freak shows. He happens on a hideously deformed creature called The Elephant Man (John Hurt), and pays the owner Mr. Bytes (Freddie Jones) to examine it.

The Elephant Man is a 1980 historical drama film directed by David Lynch, based on the life of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman born with severe bodily deformities and nicknamed "the Elephant Man".

In Victorian London, Dr. Frederick Treves with the London Hospital comes across a circus sideshow attraction run by a man named Bytes called "The Elephant Man".

Bytes (Freddie Jones), who describes himself as Merrick’s “owner,” reasons, but treats the “Elephant Man” as an “it,” an animal or a machine. So too the night porter (Michael Elphick), who sells peepshow visits to the Elephant Man’s room, reasons well enough.

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A policeman herds the audience out of the tent before Dr. Treves has a chance to meet John Merrick, the freak known as “the elephant man.” Soon, Dr. Treves visits Mr. Bytes, the carnival barker who is the elephant man’s caretaker, and pays for a private showing.