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.

One of Hollywood’s worst weeks in just got worse. David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Blue Velvet, ...

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.

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 ...