His take on the heartbreaking story of Joseph Merrick made his career – but is the late director’s least typical film also his greatest? Amidst the many weird and wonderful characters from the ...

The acclaimed director, who died at age 78, encountered difficulties on the set of his Oscar-nominated film ‘The Elephant Man.’ ...

Three years after making his debut with "Eraserhead," Lynch tackled the true story of Englishman John Merrick (played by John Hurt) – in real life, Joseph Merrick – who's labeled a freak because of ...

Lynch’s black-and-white second feature is among his more sentimental works, and was adapted from the diary of Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man born in the US in 1862 with a condition that ...