Anne Bancroft and John Hurt in The Elephant Man This eventually included Brooks, who hit it off with the director when he met Lynch. “His shirt was buttoned – always buttoned – at the top.

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.

Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano ... She starred in a number of other films, including The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), and Agnes of God (1985), for which ...