This severely afflicts the face and body of John Merrick (John Hurt) in "The Elephant Man" and Edward (Sebastian Stan) in "A ...

the film follows renowned doctor Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins), who rescues the titular Elephant Man (here called “John,” and played by John Hurt) from a carnival in order to study him ...

Poignant drama starring John Hurt as John Merrick. Born in Victorian England with a disfiguring disease and doomed to a grim existence, hope springs when someone shows pity on him.

Frederick Treves with the London Hospital comes across a circus sideshow attraction run by a man ... Elephant Man". In actuality, the creature on display is indeed a man, 21-year-old Joseph "John ...

John Hurt was in over 100 films (including “some stinkers”, as he cheerfully admitted) and played a huge range of characters: from the pathos of John Merrick in The Elephant Man to the schlock ...