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

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 play is about the cruelty Merrick endures as the sideshow freak dubbed “Elephant Man,” and the compassion he receives from the more open-hearted souls in his orbit. “The Elephant Man” won the Tony ...

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Elephant Man director, dies aged 78 - The brilliant auteur whose unsettling, beautiful dreamscapes skewered the hypocrisy of the American dream has passed away at 78 ...

The death of American filmmaker David Lynch, who was also a painter, musician, sound designer, actor, singer and photographer, brings to an end the career of a truly unique figure.In a 2003 interview ...

and was adapted from the diary of Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man born in the US in 1862 with a condition that caused severe physical deformities. Merrick (called John in the film) was ...