Jack Huston, known for his acting work in Boardwalk Empire and American Hustle, has come aboard to direct a biopic centered ...

When the London surgeon Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) meets the freak-show performer John Merrick (John Hurt ... and Wendy Hiller, "The Elephant Man" was nominated for eight Academy Awards ...

The so-called Elephant Man was born Joseph Merrick at Leicester, England, in 1862. Up until the age of 5, Merrick’s physiognomy was, from all accounts, that of any healthy child. The subsequently ...

and played a huge range of characters: from the pathos of John Merrick in The Elephant Man to the schlock-horror of having a creature burst out of his stomach in Alien. In 2016 he won the ...

The unmarked grave of Joseph Merrick, who is better known as the Elephant Man, has been traced after ... an award-winning play and a film starring John Hurt Mrs Vigor-Mungovin, who has written ...

David Lynch directed an Oscar-nominated biopic that starred John Hurt in 1980, titled The Elephant Man, and Merrick has appeared in countless books, shows, plays and even an opera. According to ...