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 ...

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

The only known surviving letter from Joseph Merrick, known as the Elephant Man, has gone on display. The letter was written to a young widow called Leila Maturin, who was said to have been the ...

The play is about the cruelty Merrick endures as the sideshow freak dubbed “Elephant Man,” and the compassion he receives ...

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.

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Elephant Man director, dies aged 78 - The brilliant auteur whose unsettling, beautiful ...

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