The versatile actor Sir John Hurt, who could move audiences to tears in "The Elephant Man," terrify them in "Alien," and spoof that very same scene in "Spaceballs," has died. He was 77. Hurt, who ...

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Amidst the many weird and wonderful characters from the late, great David Lynch’s filmography – Dennis Hopper going manically OTT in Blue Velvet, an eyebrow-less Robert Blake being phenomenally ...

Friday-Sunday: Based on a true story, Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play, "The Elephant Man," follows John Merrick, whose physical deformities affected how people looked at him and how he looked at London ...

3 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere The Elephant Man is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A horribly deformed ...

From a desperate existence in a Victorian freak show to his days as the toast of London high society, the life of John Merrick, the Elephant Man, has fascinated the world for well over a century.