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.

“The Elephant Man,” Lynch’s 1980 cult movie ... It starred a heavily made-up John Hurt as the sensitive Merrick, Anthony Hopkins as the London Hospital surgeon who became his guardian ...